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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ECO RESOURCES, INC., a Texas )

corporation, )

) 2:05-cv-2556-GEB-DAD

Counter-claimant, )

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v. ) ORDER 

)

CITY OF RIO VISTA, a California )

municipality, )

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Counter-defendant. )

)

On November 29, 2006, the parties filed a “Stipulation to

Continue Expert Disclosure Dates” in which they “jointly request

that the Court amend its Pretrial Scheduling Order . . . to

continue the initial expert witness disclosure and rebuttal expert

disclosure by approximately two and a half months . . . in the

hope[] that this case will settle and that discovery will be

avoided.” (Stipulation at 1-2.) 

Since the parties stipulate to having the referenced

portion of the Status (Pretrial Scheduling) Order (“Status Order”)

modified, and the modification can be made in a manner that will

not adversely affect the Court's docket, the good cause issue will

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Accommodating the parties’ requested modifications to the 1

Status Order necessarily reduces the amount of time between the trial

commencement date of January 29, 2008, and the final pretrial

conference. Because of this reduction, it is unlikely that a settlement

conference supervised by a federal judge will be scheduled in this

action.

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not be reached. Although the Stipulation only requested

modification of the expert disclosure deadlines, granting the

parties’ requested changes will affect subsequent prescribed dates

in the Status Order. Thus, to accommodate the parties’ request

certain subsequently prescribed dates will also be modified.

Therefore, the Status Order is modified as follows:

(1) Each party shall comply with Federal Rule of Civil

Procedure 26(a)(2)’s initial expert witness disclosure and report

requirements on or before March 30, 2007, and with the rebuttal expert

disclosures authorized under the Rule on or before April 20, 2007;

(2) discovery shall be completed by July 23, 2007; 

(3) the last hearing date for motions shall be September 24,

2007, at 9:00 a.m.; and

(4) the final pretrial conference is set for November 26,

2007, at 11:00 a.m.1

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: December 1, 2006

 

GARLAND E. BURRELL, JR.

United States District Judge

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