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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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STIPULATION TO MODIFY THE PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER; ORDER

SCOTT P. DEVRIES, Cal. Bar No. 88221 RACHEL E. HUDGINS (admitted pro hac vice)

HUNTON ANDREWS KURTH LLP HUNTON ANDREWS KURTH LLP 

50 California Street, Suite 1700 Bank of America Plaza, Ste. 4100 

San Francisco, CA 94111 600 Peachtree Street, N.E. 

Telephone: 415.975.3700 Atlanta, GA 30308 

Facsimile: 415.975.3701 Telephone: 404.888.4000 

Email: SDeVries@hunton.com Facsimile: 404.888.4190 

 Email: RHudgins@hunton.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs RLC INDUSTRIES CO. 

and ROSEBURG FOREST PRODUCTS CO. 

JEFFREY S. CROWE, Cal. Bar No. 216055 

SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP

650 Town Center Drive, 10th Floor 

Costa Mesa, California 92626 

Telephone: 714.513.5100 

Facsimile: 714.513.5130 

Email: jcrowe@sheppardmullin.com 

SCOTT SVESLOSKY, Cal. Bar No. 217660 

MARY E. GREGORY, Cal. Bar No. 210247 

SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP

333 South Hope Street, 43rd Floor 

Los Angeles, California 90071-1422 

Telephone: 213.620.1780 

Facsimile: 213.620.1398 

Email: mgregory@sheppardmullin.com 

Attorneys for Defendant 

LIBERTY INSURANCE CORPORATION 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, SACRAMENTO DIVISION

RLC INDUSTRIES CO. and ROSEBURG 

FOREST PRODUCTS CO., 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

LIBERTY INSURANCE 

CORPORATION, EVEREST NATIONAL 

INSURANCE COMPANY, and THE 

OHIO CASUALTY INSURANCE 

COMPANY, 

Defendants. 

 Case No. 2:23-cv-00649-TLN-DB 

Assigned to the Hon. Troy L. Nunley and 

Magistrate Judge Deborah Barnes 

STIPULATION AND ORDER TO 

MODIFY THE PRETRIAL 

SCHEDULING ORDER 

 

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TO THE HONORABLE COURT: 

Plaintiffs RLC Industries, Inc. and Roseburg Forest Products Co. (collectively 

“Roseburg”), and Defendant Liberty Insurance Corporation (“Liberty”) (collectively “the 

Parties”), by and through their attorneys of record, enter into the following stipulation for 

an order modifying the Court’s Scheduling Order (ECF 5) to continue the completion dates 

for (1) expert witness disclosures; (2) rebuttal expert disclosures; and (3) the expert 

discovery cutoff date. 

I. RECITALS.

WHEREAS: 

1. On April 7, 2023, Roseburg filed its Complaint in this action against Liberty, 

The Ohio Casualty Insurance Company and Everest National Insurance Company. 

Roseburg asserts causes of action for breach of contract and breach of the covenant of 

good faith and fair dealing against Liberty. Roseburg alleges that Liberty failed to defend 

Roseburg against claims arising out of a fire in Weed, California, which originated on 

Roseburg’s premises. Roseburg further alleges that Liberty’s conduct was in bad faith. 

Liberty denies Roseburg’s claims. 

2. On May 26, 2023, Liberty filed its Answer to Roseburg’s Complaint. 

3. On April 7, 2023, the Court issued its Initial Pretrial Scheduling Order. 

(ECF 5). 

4. On June 30, 2023, the Parties submitted their Joint Federal Rule 26(f) Report 

and Discovery Plan. (ECF 24). 

5. On July 11, 2023, the Court issued a Minute Order advising the Parties to 

submit any request to modify the Court’s Initial Pretrial Scheduling Order through a 

Stipulation and Proposed Order for the Court’s consideration. (ECF 25). 

6. On August 7, 2023, pursuant to Roseburg and defendant Ohio Casualty 

Insurance Company’s Stipulation, the Court dismissed Ohio Casualty with prejudice. 

(ECF 28). 

7. On May 3, 2024, pursuant to Roseburg and defendant Everest National 

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Insurance Company’s Stipulation, the Court dismissed Everest with prejudice. (ECF 56). 

8. On December 19, 2023, the Court granted Roseburg’s and Liberty’s request 

to modify the Initial Pretrial Scheduling Order. (ECF 32). The Order continued the nonexpert discovery completion date from January 19, 2024 to May 3, 2024. 

9. The Parties have completed all written discovery apart from that associated 

with a Joint Statement addressing the sufficiency of Liberty’s responses to discovery that 

Roseburg served in September 2023, which remains pending before Magistrate Judge 

Barnes. (ECF nos. 58, 59, 60, 46, 54 and 62). 

10. On April 6, 2024, the Court granted Roseburg’s and Liberty’s second request 

for limited modifications of the Initial Pretrial Scheduling Order. (ECF 41). The Order 

continued the non-expert discovery completion date to May 31, 2024 for the limited 

purpose of taking certain depositions; potential discovery if Magistrate Judge Barnes finds 

in Roseburg’s favor on the pending discovery motion; and potential discovery disputes 

regarding privilege logs. 

11. The Parties require additional time to designate expert witnesses and disclose 

their written reports. Additional time is necessary because of: (1) the short time frame 

between the modified discovery completion date of May 31, 2024, and the current initial 

expert disclosure date of July 5, 2024; and (2) scheduling conflicts among one or more 

experts to complete their reports and depositions within the current schedule. 

12. Based on their experts’ and counsel’s schedules, the Parties have agreed, and 

seek the Court’s approval, to extend: (1) the initial expert disclosures to August 2, 2024; 

(2) the rebuttal expert disclosures to August 30, 2024; (3) the expert-discovery cutoff 

(including the time to file expert discovery motions) to November 22, 2024. 

13. To accommodate the scheduling conflicts among one or more experts, the 

Parties agree to waive any requirement to provide supplemental or rebuttal reports by their 

respective experts, who will opine on the reasonableness and necessity of the fees and 

costs that Roseburg incurred (“Damages Experts”), except that (1) Liberty’s Damages 

Expert may issue a report to address new issues not raised in their initial report or 

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otherwise to offer rebuttal/supplemental opinions to Plaintiffs’ Damages Expert and (2) 

Roseburg’s Damages Expert will be permitted to address new issues raised in Liberty’s 

Damages Expert’s report (if any) or to otherwise offer rebuttal/supplemental opinions to 

Liberty’s Damages Expert in deposition testimony. 

14. With an extension of the foregoing dates, the Parties also agree and ask the 

Court to extend the dispositive motion deadline to December 12, 2024, which will allow 

for the completion of expert discovery prior to the dispositive motion deadline. 

II. STIPULATION. 

Therefore, the Parties, by and through their counsel of record, hereby stipulate to an 

order from the Court extending the expert discovery and dispositive motions deadlines in 

this matter to the following dates: 

● August 2, 2024: Initial Expert Disclosures Due. 

● August 30, 2024: Rebuttal Expert Disclosures Due. 

● October 25, 2024: Last Day to Depose Expert Witnesses. 

● November 22, 2024: Expert Discovery Cutoff/Last Day to File 

 Motions Related to Expert Discovery Issues. 

● December 12, 2024: Last Day to File Dispositive Motions. 

All other dates in the Court’s prior Scheduling Orders will remain the same. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

Dated: June 27, 2024 

 HUNTON ANDREWS KURTH LLP

 

By 

/s/ Rachel E. Hudgins 

[as authorized on June 27, 2024] 

 SCOTT P. DeVRIES 

RACHEL E. HUDGINS 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

RLC INDUSTRIES CO. and ROSEBURG 

FOREST PRODUCTS CO. 

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Dated: June 27, 2024 

 SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP

 

By /s/ Mary E. Gregory 

 JEFFREY S. CROWE 

SCOTT SVESLOSKY 

MARY E. GREGORY 

Attorneys for Defendant 

LIBERTY INSURANCE CORPORATION 

 

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ORDER 

Having considered the Stipulation and for good cause shown, IT IS HEREBY 

ORDERED that the current Pretrial Scheduling Order in this case (ECF 32) be modified as 

follows: 

● August 2, 2024: Initial Expert Disclosures Due. 

● August 30, 2024: Rebuttal Expert Disclosures Due. 

● October 25, 2024: Last Day to Depose Expert Witnesses. 

● November 22, 2024: Expert Discovery Cutoff/Last Day to File 

 Motions Related to Expert Discovery Issues. 

● December 12, 2024: Last Day to File Dispositive Motions. 

All other dates in the Court’s prior Scheduling Orders will remain the same. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: June 28, 2024 

Troy L. Nunley

United States District Judge

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