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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Federal Question: Other Civil Rights

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER MODIFYING THE PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER

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CARRIE A. McFADDEN, ESQ., SB No. 245199 

 Email: cmcfadden@akk-law.com 

ANGELO, KILDAY & KILDUFF, LLP 

Attorneys at Law 

601 University Avenue, Suite 150 

Sacramento, CA 95825 

Telephone: (916) 564-6100 

Telecopier: (916) 564-6263 

Attorneys for Defendants NICHOLAS MORAWCZNSKI and VISHWAS SHARMA 

LARRY A PELUSO, ESQ., SB No. 281380 

Attorney at Law 

 Email: lpeluso@lpelusolaw.com

101 S. Topanga Canyon Blvd #588 

Topanga CA 90290 

Peluso (949) 395-0092 

Swanson (310) 455-2100 

Fax (310) 878-0187 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs CHRISTIE ROGERS and SHAUNA ELDER 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

CHRISTIE ROGERS, individually and as the 

heir and successor in interest of KEVIN 

MCCOSHUM and SHAUNA ELDER, 

 Plaintiff, 

 vs. 

NICHOLAS MORAWCZNSKI and 

VISHWAS SHARMA, 

 Defendants. 

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Case No.: 2:15-cv-01420-JAM-CMK 

STIPULATION AND ORDER 

MODIFYING THE PRETRIAL 

SCHEDULING ORDER 

 COMES NOW THE PARTIES by and through their respective counsel and subject to the 

approval of this Court, hereby stipulate and respectfully request the following modifications to 

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this Court’s Pretrial Scheduling Order of November 4, 2015 (Court’s Docket No. 9), regarding 

the scheduling of this case: 

 That the expert witness disclosure cut-off date currently set for August 19, 2016 be 

moved to September 16, 2016; 

 That the rebuttal expert witness disclosure currently set for August 26, 2016 be moved to 

September 23, 2016; 

 The trial currently set for March 20, 2017 be moved to a date convenient for the Court in 

or after May 2017; 

 That the Final Pretrial Conference currently set for January 27, 2017 be moved to a date 

convenient for the Court in accordance with the new trial date. 

 The parties stipulate to and request this modification of the pretrial order as to the expert 

witness disclosures because Plaintiff Christie Rogers and Defendant Nicholas Morawcznski have 

become unavailable to be deposed before the expert disclosure deadline. There is good cause for 

this modification because the parties did not anticipate that this Plaintiff and Defendant would 

become unavailable for several weeks before the expert disclosure deadline. The parties are 

confident that the new dates for expert witness disclosures will provide all parties with adequate 

time to complete discovery and dispositive motions. The parties are not seeking an extension of 

the deadline to conduct discovery, which is scheduled for October 21, 2016, or the deadline to 

file a dispositive motion, which is scheduled for November 15, 2016. 

The parties stipulate to and request this modification of the pretrial order as to the dates 

for the final pretrial conference and trial because defense counsel, Carrie McFadden, cannot 

attend the pretrial conference and trial as currently scheduled as she will be on maternity leave 

starting in January 2017. The parties submitted their availability for trial to this Court on 

October 30, 2015. Court’s Docket No. 8, pp. 5-6. At that time, defense counsel was unaware 

that she would become pregnant and would be on maternity leave beginning in January 2017. 

Defense counsel’s unavailability for the pretrial conference and trial as currently scheduled was 

confirmed by her physician on July 26, 2016. Her inability to attend the pretrial conference and 

trial was not caused by a lack of diligence in complying with the Court’s Scheduling Order. 

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Mrs. McFadden anticipates taking three months of maternity leave and returning to work in early 

to mid-April 2017, depending on when her baby is born, her baby’s health, and her health. 

Plaintiffs agree that accommodating maternity/paternity leave is an important social interest. 

Defense counsel currently have trials scheduled to begin on February 17, 2017 

(Shellabarger v. Dicharry, et al, Eastern District Case No. 2:13-cv-00188-TLN-CMK) and on 

February 28, 2017 (Huggins v. City of Rocklin, et al, Eastern District Case No. 2:15-cv-01424-

WBS-CKD). Defense counsel has filed a motion to continue the trial in the Shellabarger matter, 

which is scheduled for hearing on August 25, 2016. Eastern District Case No. 2:13-cv-00188-

TLN-CMK, Docket No. 72. Defense counsel will file either a stipulation or a motion to continue 

the trial in the Huggins case as well. Thus, at this time defense counsel does not know when the 

trials in Shellabarger and Huggins (assuming the Court grants the requests to continue these 

trials) will commence. Defense counsel is also scheduled to start a trial on January 22, 2018 in 

Coryell v. City of Oroville, et al., Eastern District Case No. 2:15-cv-00476-TLN-AC. Plaintiffs’ 

counsel also is in trial beginning September 12, 2016 in Banta v. Walnut Creek (3:13-cv-00342 

CRB in the Northern District, and in mid-February, 2017 in Trevino v. Cummins et al. in the 

Complex Division of Los Angeles Superior Court (BC462323). 

Dated: August 16, 2016 ANGELO, KILDAY & KILDUFF, LLP 

 

/s/ Carrie A. McFadden 

By:_________________________________ 

 CARRIE A. McFADDEN 

Attorneys for Defendants 

NICHOLAS MORAWCZNSKI and 

VISHWAS SHARMA 

Dated: August 16, 2016 SWANSON & PELUSO 

 

By: /s/ Larry A Peluso [authorized on 8/15/16] 

_______________________________ 

 LARRY A. PELUSO 

Attorney for Plaintiffs 

CHRISTIE ROGERS and SHAUNA 

ELDER 

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ORDER

THEREFORE it is so ordered that: 

 Jury Trial is continued to May 22, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. 

 Final Pretrial Conference is continued to April 7, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. 

 Joint Pretrial Statements shall be filed March 31, 2017. 

 Expert Witness Disclosures and Rebuttal Expert Witnesses shall be filed no later than 

September 16, 2016 and September 23, 2016. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: 8/16/2016 /s/ John A. Mendez____________ 

 JOHN A. MENDEZ 

 United States District Court Judge 

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