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Nature of Suit Code: 362
Nature of Suit: Medical Malpractice
Cause of Action: 28:1402 Medical Malpractice

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Stip. and Order to Continue Scheduling Conference and JSR 1

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

LINDA McDONOUGH

Plaintiff,

v.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defendants

CASE NO. 2:14-cv-01252-GEB-CMK

STIPULATION and [PROPOSED] 

ORDER TO CONTINUE INITIAL 

STATUS CONFERENCE AND JOINT 

SCHEDULING REPORT

This is a Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”) medical malpractice action. The Complaint in 

this matter was filed May 21, 2014. (Dkt. No. 1). This Court issued its standard new case order the 

following day. (See Order Setting Status (Pretrial Scheduling) Conference, Dkt. No. 3). In that 

Order, the Court set a Scheduling Conference for September 15, 2014, and ordered a joint status 

report to be filed by September 1, 2014. (See id. at ¶¶ 1 & 6).

The United States was substituted as the sole defendant on July 10, 2014 (Dkt. Nos. 5-6), and 

the United States Attorneys’ Office was served on August 18, 2014. Pursuant to Federal Rule of 

Civil Procedure 4(i), the United States’ responsive pleading is due October 16, 2014. The United 

States contends that Plaintiff’s claims are barred by 28 U.S.C. § 2401(b), and plans to file a motion 

to dismiss on this ground before October 16, 2014.1 The parties agree that it would be most efficient 

for the Court to resolve this threshold issue before further proceedings in the case, and that the initial 

 

1 The United States plans to file this motion so that it may be heard at the Court’s next available hearing date,

which the United States understands to be November 3, 2014. If an earlier hearing date becomes available, 

the United States would prefer to file its motion for such earlier date and is prepared to do so.

BENJAMIN B. WAGNER

United States Attorney

GREGORY T. BRODERICK

Assistant United States Attorney

501 I Street, Suite 10-100

Sacramento, CA 95814

Telephone: (916) 554-2700

Facsimile: (916) 554-2900 

Attorneys for the United States

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scheduling conference and joint stats report hearing should be continued until after such resolution. 

Therefore, the parties stipulate to continue the status conference to November 10, 2014. A 

joint status report shall be filed fourteen days prior to the hearing. Counsel for Plaintiff has a trial 

beginning November 24, 2014, and another trial the following week, and therefore requests that the 

Court not set the conference during those trials. 

Respectfully submitted,

DATED: August 26, 2014 BENJAMIN B. WAGNER

United States Attorney

By: /s/ Gregory T. Broderick

GREGORY T. BRODERICK

Assistant U.S. Attorney

DATED: August 26, 2014

By: /s/ Dennis B. Hill (auth. 8/26/2014)

DENNIS B. HILL

Attorney for Plaintiff

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PROPOSED ORDER

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 27, 2014

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