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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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JOINT STIPULATION TO CONTINUE CASE DEADLINES; [PROPOSED] ORDER 

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Trucker 

 Huss 

A Professional Corporation 

One Embarcadero Center, 12th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94111 

SCHNEIDER WALLACE COTTRELL 

KONECKY WOTKYNS, LLP 

Kyle G. Bates (SBN 299114) 

Todd M. Schneider (SBN 158253) 

James A. Bloom (SBN 311051) 

Scott L. Gordon (SBN 319872) 

Mark T. Johnson (SBN 76904) 

Jason H. Kim (SBN 220279) 

2000 Powell Street, Ste. 1400 

Emeryville, CA 94608 

Tel.: (415) 421-7100 

Fax: (415) 421-7105 

E-Mail: tschneider@schneiderwallace.com 

 kbates@schneiderwallace.com 

 jbloom@schneiderwallace.com 

 sgordon@schneiderwallace.com 

 mjohnson@schneiderwallace.com 

 jkim@schneiderwallace.com 

SCHNEIDER WALLACE COTTRELL 

KONECKY WOTKYNS, LLP 

John J. Nestico 

Garrett W. Wotkyns 

8501 North Scottsdale Road, Ste. 270 

Scottsdale, AZ 85253 

Telephone: (480) 428-0142 

Facsimile: (866) 505-8036 

E-Mail: jnestico@schneiderwallace.com 

 gwotkyns@schneiderwallace.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

TRUCKER  HUSS 

R. Bradford Huss (SBN 71303) 

Angel L. Garrett (SBN 255682) 

Dylan D. Rudolph (SBN 278707) 

One Embarcadero Center, 12th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Tel: (415) 788-3111 

Fax: (415) 421-2017 

Email: bhuss@truckerhuss.com 

 agarrett@truckerhuss.com 

 drudolph@truckerhuss.com 

 

Joseph C. Faucher, (SBN 137353) 

633 W. 5th Street, 28th Floor 

Los Angeles, California 90071 

Telephone: (213) 537-1016 

Facsimile: (213) 537-1020 

E-mail:jfaucher@truckerhuss.com 

Attorneys for Defendants 

SAFEWAY INC. and SAFEWAY 

BENEFIT PLANS COMMITTEE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO 

DENNIS M. LORENZ, Individually and On 

Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, 

 Plaintiff, 

 vs. 

SAFEWAY INC., SAFEWAY BENEFIT 

PLANS COMMITTEE, and DOES 1 through 50, 

inclusive, 

 Defendants. 

Case No. 3:16-cv-04903-JST 

JOINT STIPULATION TO CONTINUE 

CASE DEADLINES; [PROPOSED] 

ORDER

Assigned to Hon. Jon S. Tigar 

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Trucker 

 Huss 

A Professional Corporation 

One Embarcadero Center, 12th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94111 

Plaintiff, Dennis M. Lorenz (“Plaintiff”), and Defendants, Safeway Inc. (“Safeway”) and 

Safeway Benefit Plans Committee (“Benefit Plans Committee”), collectively (“Defendants”), 

through their counsel, hereby stipulate and agree that: 

WHEREAS, Plaintiff filed a complaint against Defendants and Great-West Financial RPS 

LLC (“Great-West”) on August 25, 2016; 

WHEREAS, Plaintiff filed an Amended Complaint on September 16, 2016 (Docket No. 7); 

WHEREAS, Plaintiff filed a Second Amended Complaint on November 21, 2016 (Docket 

No. 31); 

WHEREAS, the Court dismissed the claims against Great-West with prejudice and 

consequently removed Great-West as a defendant in this action on March 13, 2017 (Docket No. 58); 

WHEREAS, Plaintiff filed a Third Amended Complaint on March 31, 2017 (Docket No. 

66); 

WHEREAS, after the Court found this matter to be related to the case of Maria Karla 

Terraza v. Safeway Inc., et al. (No. 16-cv-03994-JST) (see Docket No. 26), the Parties in this matter 

and Terraza streamlined their discovery process; 

WHEREAS, the Parties Stipulated to Continue Case Deadlines, and this Court has entered 

orders continuing case deadlines on December 18, 2017 (Dkt. 79) and on February 21, 2018 

(Dkt. 84); 

WHEREAS, the Parties have exchanged initial disclosures, engaged in written discovery and 

exchange of documents, and will have taken 17 fact witness depositions on or before the current 

deadline to complete fact discovery on April 27, 2018; 

WHEREAS, when the current deadline to complete fact discovery passes, three additional 

depositions will remain to be taken; 

WHEREAS, because depositions will remain outstanding when the current deadline to 

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complete fact discovery passes, the Parties will be unable to provide potential experts with all fact 

discovery relevant to the case when fact discovery closes; 

WHEREAS, although the Parties have been working diligently and cooperatively in the 

discovery process and in preparing this case for trial, the Parties believe that, given the number of 

Defendants and the scope of discovery, including the necessity of taking 20 depositions in no less 

than five different states, the current schedule does not provide adequate time to complete discovery 

and exchange expert reports. The Parties therefore respectfully request that the Court continue the 

case deadlines as detailed below; 

WHEREAS, the Parties have previously made two requests to extend the deadlines for 

completing discovery and filing dispositive motions, and the pretrial and trial dates (Dkts. 79, 84); 

WHEREAS, the Parties do not propose any change in the trial schedule or the remainder of 

the pretrial schedule; 

NOW, THEREFORE, the Parties, through their respective counsel, hereby stipulate, subject 

to the approval of the Court, to the following schedule: 

Event 

Current Deadline 

(Dkt. 84) Proposed Deadline 

Length of Requested 

Extension

Deadline to complete 

fact discovery 

April 27, 2018 May 3, 2018 Six Days 

Deadline for expert 

disclosures 

May 11, 2018 May 22, 2018 Eleven Days 

Deadline for expert 

rebuttal 

May 30, 2018 June 8, 2018 Nine Days 

Deadline to complete 

expert discovery 

June 8, 2018 June 20, 2018 Twelve Days 

Deadline to file 

dispositive motions 

June 21, 2018 June 28, 2018 Seven Days 

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

DATED: April 26, 2018 TRUCKER  HUSS 

By: /s/R. Bradford Huss 

R. Bradford Huss 

Attorneys for Defendants 

SAFEWAY INC. and SAFEWAY BENEFIT 

PLANS COMMITTEE 

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A Professional Corporation 

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San Francisco, California 94111 

Dated: April 26, 2018 SCHNEIDER WALLACE COTTRELL 

KONECKY WOTKYNS, LLP 

By: /s/Kyle G. Bates __________________ 

Kyle G. Bates 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

I attest that my firm has obtained concurrence in the filing of this document from Kyle G. 

Bates 

DATED: April 26, 2018 

TRUCKER  HUSS 

By: /s/R. Bradford Huss 

R. Bradford Huss 

Attorneys for Defendants 

SAFEWAY INC. and BENEFIT PLANS 

COMMITTEE SAFEWAY INC. 

[PROPOSED] ORDER

Good cause exists for an order continuing the deadlines for completing fact and expert 

discovery, including submitting expert disclosures and rebuttals, and filing dispositive motions to 

the following dates: 

May 3, 2018 − Deadline to complete fact discovery 

May 22, 2018 − Deadline for expert disclosures 

June 8, 2018 − Deadline for expert rebuttal 

June 20, 2018 − Deadline to complete expert discovery 

June 28, 2018 − Deadline to file dispositive motions 

DATED: 

 Hon. Jon S. Tigar 

 United States District 

April 27, 2018

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