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Nature of Suit Code: 791
Nature of Suit: Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Cause of Action: 29:1132 E.R.I.S.A.: Employee Benefits

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BOCKIUS LLP 

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1-SF/7429999.1 STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER

(3:06CV5284 (SI)) 

MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS LLP 

DONALD P. SULLIVAN, State Bar No. 191080 

One Market, Spear Street Tower 

San Francisco, California 94105 

Tel: 415.442.1000 

Fax: 415.442.1001 

Attorneys for Defendant 

SUTTER HEALTH GROUP LONG TERM 

DISABILITY PLAN 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

PATRICIA HUBER, 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

SUTTER HEALTH GROUP LONG 

TERM DISABILITY PLAN, 

Defendant. 

Case No. 3:06cv5284 (SI) 

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER TO EXTEND DEFENDANT’S 

TIME TO RESPOND TO COMPLAINT 

WHEREAS, Defendant Sutter Health Group Long Term Disability Plan (“Plan”) is an 

employee benefit plan that is fully-insured by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company 

(“MetLife”); 

WHEREAS, under the terms of the MetLife policy, MetLife makes all decisions regarding 

the payment of benefits from the Plan; 

WHEREAS, MetLife and not the Plan decided Plaintiff Patricia Huber’s (“Plaintiff”) 

claim for benefits; 

WHEREAS, Defendant Plan has tendered the defense of this case and made an indemnity 

demand to MetLife; 

WHEREAS, MetLife has not yet responded to Defendant Plan’s tender of defense and 

indemnity demand; 

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WHEREAS, Defendant Plan cannot make a meaningful response to the Plaintiff’s 

complaint because it did not decide Plaintiff’s claim for benefits and does not know the reasons 

for the adverse benefits determination; 

WHEREAS, the present deadline to file and serve Defendant Plan’s response to Plaintiff’s 

Complaint was October 31, 2006; 

WHEREAS, Plaintiff and Defendant Plan (collectively, the “Parties”) have stipulated to a 

twenty (20) day extension for Defendant Plan to respond to Plaintiff’s Complaint; 

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Parties’ stipulation, the deadline for Defendant Plan to 

respond to Plaintiff’s Complaint will be November 20, 2006; 

WHEREAS, Judge Illston’s August 28, 2006 Order Setting Initial Case Management 

Conference and ADR Deadlines (“Judge Illston’s Order”) has fixed November 13, 2006 as the 

last day for the Parties to meet and confer regarding initial disclosures, early settlement, ADR 

process selection, a discovery plan, as well as filing an ADR Certification and either a Stipulation 

to ADR Process or Notice of Need for ADR Phone Conference; 

WHEREAS, the requested extension of time will require the modification of deadlines 

previously set by the Court, as Defendant Plan’s deadline to respond to Plaintiff’s Complaint will 

be subsequent to deadlines previously fixed by Judge Illston’s Order; and 

WHEREAS, Defendant Plan has not previously requested an extension of its time to 

respond to the Complaint. 

NOW THEREFORE, FOR GOOD CAUSE SHOWN, PLAINTIFF AND DEFENDANT 

PLAN HEREBY STIPULATE and AGREE as follows: 

 1. Defendant Plan’s time to answer or otherwise respond to Plaintiff’s Complaint 

shall be extended to November 20, 2006; 

 2. The Initial Case Management Conference is rescheduled from December 1, 2006 

to December 21, 2006, in Courtroom 10, on the 19th Floor, at 2:00 p.m.; 

 3. November 30, 2006 shall be the last day for the parties to meet and confer 

regarding initial disclosures, early settlement, ADR process selection, a discovery plan, and filing 

an ADR Certification as well as either a Stipulation to ADR Process or Notice of Need for ADR 

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Phone Conference; and 

 4. December 14, 2006 shall be the last day for the Parties to complete initial 

disclosures or state their objections thereto in the Rule 26(f) Report, as well as file the Case 

Management Statement and Rule 26(f) Report. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED: 

Dated: November 1, 2006 MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS LLP 

 By: /S/ Donald P. Sullivan 

 Donald P. Sullivan 

 Attorneys for Defendant 

SUTTER HEALTH GROUP LONG TERM 

DISABILITY PLAN 

Dated: November 1, 2006 THORNTON DAVIDSON & ASSOCIATES 

 By: /S/ Thornton Davidson 

Thornton Davidson 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

PATRICIA HUBER 

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1-SF/7429999.1 4 STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER (3:06CV5284 (SI)) 

[PROPOSED] ORDER 

 1. Defendant Plan’s time to answer or otherwise respond to Plaintiff’s Complaint 

shall be extended to November 20, 2006; 

 2. The Initial Case Management Conference is rescheduled from December 1, 2006 

to December 21, 2006, in Courtroom 10, on the 19th Floor, at 2:00 p.m.; 

 3. November 30, 2006 shall be the last day for the parties to meet and confer 

regarding initial disclosures, early settlement, ADR process selection, a discovery plan, and filing 

an ADR Certification as well as either a Stipulation to ADR Process or Notice of Need for ADR 

Phone Conference; and 

 4. December 14, 2006 shall be the last day for the Parties to complete initial 

disclosures or state their objections thereto in the Rule 26(f) Report, as well as file the Case 

Management Statement and Rule 26(f) Report. 

IT IS SO ORDERED: 

Dated: ____________ 

The Hon. Susan Illston 

United States District Judge 

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