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Nature of Suit Code: 350
Nature of Suit: Motor Vehicle Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Tort/Motor Vehicle (P.I.)

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THIRD STIPULATION AND ORDER TO MODIFY SCHEDULING ORDER

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JOSE ZEPEDA ALCARAZ, an 

individual; MARIBEL ALCALA DE 

PEREZ, an individual,

Plaintiff,

v.

MARTEN TRANSPORT LTD, a 

corporation; JERRY WAYNE DUDLEY 

JR, an individual; and DOES 1 to 25 

inclusive,

Defendant.

Case No. 1:23-CV-00615-JLT-SKO

THIRD STIPULATION AND ORDER 

TO MODIFY SCHEDULING ORDER

(Doc. 34)

Assigned to: Hon. Jennifer L. Thurston

Magistrate Judge: Hon. Sheila K. Oberto

Complaint Filed: March 9, 2023

Trial: March 4, 2025

Pursuant to Rules 6(b) and 29(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and

Pursuant to Local Rule 143 Plaintiffs JOSE ZEPEDA ALCARAZ and MARIBEL 

ALCALA DE PEREZ (“Plaintiffs”) and Defendants MARTEN TRANSPORT LTD and 

Bradford G. Hughes, Esq., SBN 247141

Seta Sarabekian, Esq., SBN 299578

CLARK HILL LLP

555 South Flower Street, 24th Floor

Los Angeles, CA 90071

Telephone:(213) 891-9100

Facsimile: (213) 488-1178

bhughes@ClarkHill.com

ssarabekian@clarkhill.com

Attorneys for Defendants MARTEN 

TRANSPORT LTD 

and JERRY WAYNE DUDLEY JR.

OLIVIER A. TAILLIEU (SBN 206546)

 ot@bhattorneys.com

JENNIFER BAGOSY (SBN 223145)

 jby@bhattorneys.com

BD&J, PC

9701 Wilshire Blvd., 12th Floor

Beverly Hills, CA 90212

Telephone: (310) 887-1818

Facsimile: (310) 299-7592

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

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JERRY WAYNE DUDLEY JR (“Defendants”) (collectively the “Parties”) hereby 

respectfully stipulate and request the Court amend the Scheduling Order (ECF No. 29)

for good cause, and in support thereof would respectfully show the Court as follows:

On August 17, 2023, a Scheduling Conference was held; the Court set the 

following deadlines pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 16 and Civil Local Rule 

240:

Non Expert Discovery: June 14, 2024

Expert Disclosures: August 1, 2024

Rebuttal Expert Disclosures: August 29, 2024

Expert Discovery: September 27, 2024

These deadlines were amended on May 9, 2024 via Stipulation and Order as 

follows:

Non Expert Discovery: August 16, 2024

Expert Disclosures: September 26, 2024

Rebuttal Expert Disclosures: October 24, 2024

Expert Discovery: November 22, 2024

Plaintiffs previously requested a further amendment to the discovery cutoff dates 

as follows, which this Court granted:

Non Expert Discovery: September 16, 2024

Expert Disclosures: October 16, 2024

Rebuttal Expert Disclosures: November 14, 2024

Expert Discovery: December 12, 2024

Both parties now request a further amendment to the discovery cutoff as follows

preceding the May 13, 2025 trial in this matter:

Non Expert Discovery: November 15, 2024

Expert Disclosures: December 16, 2024

Rebuttal Expert Disclosures: January 14, 2025

Expert Discovery: February 12, 2025

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Good cause exists to grant this joint stipulation and the Parties request this reset 

and amendment to the Scheduling Order for the following reasons:

The parties have also been diligently noticing and conducting depositions. Four 

depositions have been taken to date, with several more confirmed in August and early 

September. Plaintiffs have noticed 7 depositions, including 5 of non-parties. Defendants 

have noticed depositions of more than 20 witnesses, principally non-party medical 

providers and treaters of Plaintiffs.

However, the parties require additional time to complete fact discovery for the 

following reasons:

(1) Defendant Marten’s Person Most Qualified has limited availability for 

Marten’s deposition under Rule 30(b)(6), and has not been able to be deposed 

to date, nor will the PMQ be available for deposition before the current fact 

discovery cutoff of September 16, 2024;

(2) The PMQ deposition may lead to the need for Plaintiff to notice additional 

depositions of Marten employees;

(3)Defendants have subpoenaed and noticed the depositions of over 20 of 

Plaintiff’s treating providers. (The parties may require the Court’s input on the 

number of depositions appropriate for this case in the future as Plaintiffs will 

not stipulate to allow Defendants more than 12 depositions (2 more than the 

10 allowed by FRCP 30). However, as of the present date, only 2 of these 

depositions have been taken, and only 5 providers have confirmed their 

availability and scheduled depositions before the September 16, 2024 cutoff. 

(4)Plaintiffs obtained contact information for several additional eyewitnesses to 

the subject accident from CHP Officer Aldrete’s August 2, 2024 deposition. 

Plaintiff is diligently working to contact, locate and subpoena these witnesses; 

however, Plaintiff has not yet been able to successfully serve the three that 

Plaintiffs have located and noticed. There is insufficient time to locate them 

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all, provide the required notice, and secure their availability for a deposition to 

take place before September 16, 2024. 

A fact discovery continuance of 59 days is requested, as opposed to a shorter 

period of time, because Plaintiffs’ counsels will be in a 3-4 week trial beginning in 

September 24, 2024 in a case filed in 2019. 

The additional brief continuance may aid the facilitation of settlement, it will not 

cause any prejudice to the Parties or any third-party, and it is not requested for any 

improper purpose. 

Dated: 8/12/2024 CLARK HILL LLP

By: /s/ Bradford G. Hughes

Bradford G. Hughes

Seta Sarabekian

Attorneys for Defendants MARTEN 

TRANSPORTS LTD and JERRY WAYNE 

DUDLEY JR.

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Dated: 8/12/2024 BD&J, PC

By: /s/ Jennifer Bagosy

 Olivier Taillieu

Jennifer Bagosy

Attorneys for Plaintiffs JOSE ZEPEDA 

ALCARAZ and MARIBEL ALCALA DE 

PEREZ

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ORDER

Pursuant to the parties’ foregoing stipulation (Doc. 34), and for good cause shown (see Fed. R. 

Civ. P. 16(b)(4)), the case schedule (Docs. 31 & 33) is MODIFIED as follows:

Previous Deadline New Deadline

Non-Expert 

Discovery

September 16, 2024 November 15, 2024

Expert Disclosures October 16, 2024 December 16, 2024

Rebuttal Expert

Disclosures

November 14, 2024 January 14, 2025

Expert Discovery December 12, 2024 February 12, 2025

Non-Dispositive 

Motion

Deadline1

Filing: December 13, 

2024

Hearing: January 22, 

2025

Filing: February 13, 2025

Hearing: March 26, 2025

Dispositive Motion 

Deadline 

Filing: December 13, 

2024

Hearing: January 17, 

2025

Filing: February 20, 2025

Hearing: March 31, 2025

Deadline to Provide 

Proposed 

Settlement 

Conference Dates 

February 12, 2025 By April 30, 2025, or 90 days before trial, 

whichever is later

Pre-Trial 

Conference 

March 17, 2025 June 2, 2025

Trial May 13, 2025 July 29, 2025

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 13, 2024 /s/ Sheila K. Oberto .

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

1 Although the parties did not request an enlargement of the motion deadlines and pretrial and trial dates, such enlargement 

is necessary to allow the Court time to adjudicate motions and for the parties to prepare for trial.

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