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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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PRISON LAW OFFICE 

DONALD SPECTER (SBN 83925) 

REBEKAH EVENSON (SBN 207825) 

1917 Fifth Street 

Berkeley, California 94710-1916 

Telephone: 510.280.2621 

Facsimile: 510.280.2704 

dspecter@prisonlaw.com 

revenson@prisonlaw.com 

BINGHAM MCCUTCHEN LLP 

GEOFFREY HOLTZ (SBN 191370) 

MANU PRADHAN (SBN 253026) 

HEATHER SHOOK (SBN 268716) 

Three Embarcadero Center 

San Francisco, CA 94111-4067 

Telephone: 415.393.2000 

Facsimile: 415.393.2286 

geoffrey.holtz@bingham.com 

manu.pradhan@bingham.com 

heather.shook@bingham.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

KAMALA D. HARRIS

Attorney General of California 

DAMON G. McCLAIN (SBN 209508) 

Supervising Deputy Attorney General 

CHRISTOPHER J. BECKER (SBN 230529) 

Deputy Attorney General 

ERIN SULLIVAN (SBN 242757) 

Deputy Attorney General 

455 Golden Gate Ave., Suite 11000 

San Francisco, Ca 94102-7004 

Telephone: 415.703.5750 

Facsimile: 415.703.5843 

Email: Damon.McClain@doj.ca.gov 

Attorneys for Defendants M. Cate, S. Kernan, 

T. McDonald, G. Giurbino, J. Tilton, T. Felker, 

M. Wright, F. Foulk, D. Vanderville, J. Owen, 

and D. Hellwig 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

ROBERT MITCHELL, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

TOM FELKER, et al., 

Defendants. 

No. 2:08-CV-01196-JAM-EFB 

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER AMENDING SCHEDULING 

ORDER 

Action filed: May 30, 2008 

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STIPULATION AND ORDER AMENDING SCHEDULING ORDER

Plaintiffs and Defendants, through their counsel of record, stipulate to an amended pretrial schedule, and request an order of the Court as follows: 

1. The Second Amended Complaint in this action seeks injunctive relief regarding 

the official policy of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (“CDCR”) 

regarding modified programs and/or lockdowns. 

2. On August 28, 2012, the Court entered a Scheduling Order, setting pre-trial 

deadlines, including a fact-discovery cutoff of March 13, 2013. See Dkt. 121. 

3. On August 28, 2012, the day discovery opened, Plaintiffs served Requests for 

Production and Interrogatories on Defendants. On October 1, 2012, Defendants served 

Responses to Plaintiffs’ Requests for Production and Interrogatories. On October 3, 2012, 

Plaintiff moved to compel discovery, and the parties filed a Joint Statement on October 17, 2012. 

4. On October 26, 2012, the Court ordered that Defendants shall produce documents 

on a rolling basis according to the schedule proposed by Defendants in the parties’ Joint 

Statement, which proposed that all documents would be produced by November 26, 2012. The 

Court also ordered the parties to meet and confer about electronic discovery. 

5. Since the Court’s Order, the parties have continued to meet and confer about 

discovery. Defendants have been producing documents on a rolling basis. However, 

Defendants’ document production is still ongoing and not yet complete. Defendants expect to 

finish their production at the end of March - after the discovery cutoff - and Plaintiffs have 

requested that production be completed earlier. 

6. On January 3, 2013, Plaintiffs noticed 14 additional depositions which have not 

yet been scheduled. Defendants proposed dates for some of these depositions, which begin on 

February 22 and continue through March 21 - after the discovery cut-off. Plaintiffs also 

anticipate noticing the depositions of the named Defendants in this action. 

7. Given the discovery that remains outstanding, that Defendants do not expect to 

finish their production until the end of March, that Plaintiffs will then need more time to review 

and analyze those documents and determine if additional discovery or depositions are necessary 

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based on the documents, and that Defendants proposed dates for depositions to take place after 

the discovery cutoff, Plaintiffs requested a 30 day extension to the pre-trial deadlines in the 

Court’s Scheduling Order. Defendants agreed and proposed a 45 day extension. 

8. The parties also agree that, given the outstanding discovery and the need for fact 

discovery to be completed to evaluate the need for experts, the deadline for expert disclosures 

should be extended by an additional 15 days, or by 60 days total. 

9. THEREFORE, the parties stipulate and propose that pre-trial schedule be 

amended as follows: 

A. Non-Expert Discovery 

 1. The deadline to complete all non-expert discovery, formerly March 13, 

2013, shall now be April 30, 2013. 

 2. The deadline to hear discovery motions, formerly February 3, 2013, shall 

now be March 27, 2013. 

B. Expert Discovery 

 1. The deadline to serve expert disclosures, formerly March 13, 2013, shall 

now be May 15, 2013. 

 2. The deadline to serve expert rebuttal reports, formerly April 8, 2013, shall 

now be June 10, 2013. 

 3. The deadline to complete all expert discovery, formerly May 20, 2013, 

shall now be July 19, 2013. 

 C. Law and Motion 

 1. The deadline to hear any law and motion matter, formerly July 3, 2013, 

shall now be August 19, 2013. 

 D. Pretrial Conference 

 1. The deadline for the parties to file a joint pretrial statement, formerly 

August 21, 2013, shall now be November 20, 2013 September 21, 2013. 

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 2. The pretrial conference, formerly scheduled on August 28, 2013, shall 

now be held on December 4, 2013 September 28, 2013 at 10:00am. 

E. Trial 

 1. The trial date, formerly scheduled on shall remain the same as previously 

scheduled, October 21, 2013, shall now be held on March 3, 2014, at 8:30 a.m. 

DATED: February 7, 2013 

BINGHAM MCCUTCHEN LLP 

By: /s/ Heather Shook 

Heather Shook 

 Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

DATED: February 7, 2013 

KAMALA D. HARRIS 

Attorney General of the State of California 

By: /s/ Damon McClain 

Damon McClain 

Supervising Deputy Attorney General 

Attorneys for Defendants 

(As authorized on February 7, 2013) 

SO ORDERED. 

DATED: February 8, 2013. 

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