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Nature of Suit Code: 110
Nature of Suit: Insurance
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Insurance Contract

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JOINT STIPULATION TO EXTEND MEDIATION DEADLINE FROM 10/15/16 TO 11/30/16 

ALLEN RUBY (SBN 47109)

RAOUL D. KENNEDY (SBN 40892)

JAMES P. SCHAEFER (SBN 250417)

SKADDEN, ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER & 

FLOM LLP

525 University Avenue, Suite 1400

Palo Alto, CA 94301

Telephone: (650) 470-4500

Facsimile: (650) 470-4570

allen.ruby@skadden.com

raoul.kennedy@skadden.com

james.schaefer@skadden.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff/Defendant

INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

ILLINOIS UNION INSURANCE COMPANY, 

an Illinois corporation,

Plaintiff,

v.

INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC., a Delaware 

corporation,

Defendant.

Case No. 3:13-cv-04863-JST

Hon. Jon S. Tigar

JOINT STIPULATION TO EXTEND 

MEDIATION DEADLINE FROM 

OCTOBER 15, 2016, TO NOVEMBER 30, 

2016; AND

[PROPOSED] ORDER.

Complaint Filed: October 21, 2013

Date: May 26, 2016

Time: 2:00 Pm

Location: Courtroom 9

Trial Date: June 19, 2017

INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC.,

Plaintiff,

v.

ILLINOIS UNION INSURANCE COMPANY; 

NAVIGATORS SPECIALTY INSURANCE CO.,

Defendants.

CASE NO.: 3:15-cv-04834-JST

Complaint Filed: October 20, 2015

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JOINT STIPULATION TO EXTEND MEDIATION DEADLINE FROM 10/15/16 TO 11/30/16 

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (“Intuitive”) and Illinois Union Insurance Company (“Illinois Union”) 

jointly stipulate, pursuant to Civil Local Rules 6-1(b), 6-2, and 7-12, to extend the deadline for 

mediation of the consolidated actions numbered Case No. 3:13-cv-04863-JST and Case No. 3:15-cv04834-JST, if it pleases this Court. 

WHEREAS, on July 26, 2016, the parties submitted a Joint Stipulation to Scheduling Order 

which was approved and entered by the Court on July 28, 2016 (Dkt. 1861).

WHEREAS, the Scheduling Order provided for a mediation deadline of October 15, 2016. 

WHEREAS, the parties have been conducting fact discovery in Case No. 3:15-cv-04834-

JST, which has a fact discovery cut-off date of November 10, 2016. 

WHEREAS, the parties through their counsel have met and conferred, and agree that a 

private mediation is best conducted after the close of all fact discovery on November 10, 2016. 

NOW THEREFORE, the parties, through the undersigned counsel, hereby respectfully 

stipulate and request that this Court extend the mediation deadline to November 30, 2016, to allow 

the parties adequate time to conduct a private mediation in consolidated actions numbered Case No. 

3:13-cv-04863-JST and Case No. 3:15-cv-04834-JST, if this date is convenient to this Court. This 

change in the deadline for mediation will not change or affect any of the other dates in the 

Scheduling Order entered on July 28, 2016: 

Event Current Date New Schedule

Mediation Deadline October 15, 2016 November 30, 2016

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 Unless otherwise indicated, all docket citations refer to the ECF docket in Illinois Union Ins. Co. v. Intuitive Surgical, 

Inc., No. 3:13-cv-04863-JST. 

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JOINT STIPULATION TO EXTEND MEDIATION DEADLINE FROM 10/15/16 TO 11/30/16 

DATED: October 11, 2016 

SKADDEN, ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER & FLOM LLP

By: /s/ James P. Schaefer

Attorneys for

INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC.

COZEN O’CONNER

By: /s/ Charles Wheeler

Attorneys for

ILLINOIS UNION INSURANCE COMPANY

Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 5-1(i), the filer attests that concurrence in the filing of this 

document has been obtained from the signatories above. 

 /s/ James P. Schaefer 

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JOINT STIPULATION TO EXTEND MEDIATION DEADLINE FROM 10/15/16 TO 11/30/16 

[PROPOSED] ORDER

PURSUANT TO THE FOREGOING STIPULATION OF THE PARTIES, IT IS 

ORDERED THAT: 

The Court enters the following modification to the case schedule for consolidated actions 

numbered Case No. 3:13-cv-04863-JST and Case No. 3:15-cv-04834-JST: 

Event Current Date New Schedule

Mediation Deadline October 15, 2016 November 30, 2016 

DATED: October 13, 2016 

 __________________________________ 

The Honorable Jon S. Tigar 

 United States District Court Judge 

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