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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Other Contract

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Stip. & [Proposed] Order Extending Deadlines, etc; Action No. C06-07049 JW (PVT)

OWEN, WICKERSHAM & ERICKSON, P.C.

Lawrence G. Townsend (S.B.N. 88184)

Linda Joy Kattwinkel (S.B.N. 164283)

455 Market Street, Suite 1910

San Francisco, CA 94105

Telephone: 415.882.3200

Facsimile: 415-882.3232

ltownsend@owe.com

ljk@owe.com

BLANK ROME, LLP

Alan J. Hoffman

James J. Merkins

One Logan Square

18th and Cherry Streets

Phylidelphia, Pennsylvania 19103-6998

Telephone: 215-569-5500

Facsimile: 215-569-5555

Counsel Pro Hac Vice

Attorneys for Defendant and Counterclaimant

WESTINGHOUSE LIGHTING CORPORATION

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

THE THOMAS KINKADE COMPANY, 

formerly known as Media Arts Group, Inc., 

a Delaware Corporation,

Plaintiff,

v.

WESTINGHOUSE LIGHTING

CORPORATION, a Pennsylvania

Corporation,

Defendant.

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Case Number C06-07049 JW (PVT)

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED]

ORDER EXTENDING DEADLINES

FOR DISCLOSURE AND

DEPOSITIONS OF EXPERT

WITNESSES, DISCOVERY CUT-OFF

AND DISPOSITIVE MOTION CUTOFF

The parties hereto, by and through their respective counsel, have reached this Stipulation

Extending Deadlines for Disclosure and Depositions of Expert Witnesses, Discovery Cut-Off and

Dispositive Motion Cut-Off with respect to the following facts:

A. Plaintiff filed its motion for judgment on the pleadings on April 30, 2007, and a

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hearing was set for June 4, 2007.

B. The motion was continued to June 18, 2007 pursuant to notice of the Clerk, and it

was subsequently continued to July 23, 2007 due to Defendants having retained new lead counsel

in the case. The motion was thereafter continued by the Court to July 30, 2007 and was heard on

Monday, July 30, 2007 at 9:00 am.

C. The parties to date have engaged in only paper discovery so as to avoid

unnecessary expenditures of attorneys' fees and costs until such time as the pleadings are settled

and the factual issues are framed pursuant to the Court’s ruling on the pending motion.

D. Under the Court's original Scheduling Order the parties were scheduled to

disclose their experts on August 20, 2007 with rebuttal experts to be named and depositions to

follow.

E. On August 23, 2007 the parties submitted a Stipulation and Proposed Order

Extending Deadlines for Disclosure and Depositions of Expert Witnesses; which the Court

signed on August 30, 2007. Under that Order, the following changes in the scheduling order were

entered:

Deadline Original Due Date Current Date

Expert Witness Disclosure 08/20/2007 10/08/2007

Expert Witness Rebuttal 09/03/2007 10/22/2007

File Motion to Exclude Expert Witness Testimony 10/01/2007 11/12/2007

Close of Expert Witness Discovery 10/22/2007 11/21/2007

F. The parties wish to extend these deadlines and related deadlines further so as to

avoid unnecessary expenditures of attorneys' fees and costs until such time as the pleadings are

settled and the factual issues are framed pursuant to the Court’s ruling on the pending motion. 

No changes are sought other than as set forth below. Furthermore, Plaintiff wishes to go on

record that it wishes to preserve the current pre-trial and trial scheduling for this case, with the

preliminary pre-trial conference currently set for March 10, 2008 at 11:00 A.M.

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Therefore, the parties stipulate to the following changes in the scheduling order with

respect to the following deadlines:

Deadline Current Due Date New Date

Expert Witness Disclosure 10/08/2007 11/01/2007

Expert Witness Rebuttal 10/22/2007 11/16/2007

File Motion to Exclude Expert Witness Testimony 11/12/2007 12/03/2007

Close of Expert Witness Discovery 11/21/2007 12/14/2007

Close of Discovery 10/22/2007 12/07/2007

Last Date for Hearing Dispositive Motions 01/07/2008 02/04/2008

 Dated: September 25, 2007 OWEN, WICKERSHAM & ERICKSON, P.C

By: /s/ Linda Joy Kattwinkel 

Lawrence G. Townsend

Linda Joy Kattwinkel

AND

Alan J. Hoffman

James J. Merkins

BLANK ROME, LLP

Attorneys for Defendant and Counterclaimant

WESTINGHOUSE LIGHTING CORPORATION

Dated: September 25, 2007 MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP

By: /s/ Charles E. Weir 

Charles E. Weir

Attorneys for Plaintiff THE THOMAS

KINKADE COMPANY

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ORDER

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: September ____, 2007 __________________________________

James Ware

United States Judge

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This is the parties' final request for Continuance of Scheduling Deadlines.

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