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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 29:1001 E.R.I.S.A.: Employee Retirement

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JOINT STIPULATION TO MODIFY AMENDED PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER; ORDER 

Gordon & Rees LLP 

275 Battery Street, Suite 2000 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Ronald K. Alberts (SBN: 100017)

ralberts@gordonrees.com

Jordan S. Altura (SBN: 209431) 

jaltura@gordonrees.com

Tino X. Do (SBN: 221346) 

tdo@gordonrees.com

GORDON & REES LLP 

275 Battery Street, Suite 2000 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: (415) 986-5900 

Facsimile: (415) 986-8054 

Attorneys for Defendants/Counter-Claimants 

CONNECTICUT GENERAL 

LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY and 

CIGNA HEALTH AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY 

DEVIN M. SENELICK (State Bar No. 221478) 

dsenelick@health-law.com

DARON L. TOOCH (State Bar No. 137269) 

dtooch@health-law.com KATHERINE M. DRU (State Bar No. 280231) 

kdru@health-law.com HOOPER, LUNDY & BOOKMAN, P.C. 

1875 Century Park East, Suite 1600 

Los Angeles, California 90067-2517 

Telephone: (310) 551-8111 

Facsimile: (310) 551-8181 

Attorneys for Plaintiff/Counter-Defendant 

NUTRISHARE, INC. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA – SACRAMENTO DIVISION 

Case No. 2:13-CV-02378-JAM-AC

JOINT STIPULATION TO MODIFY 

AMENDED PRETRIAL 

SCHEDULING ORDER; ORDER 

(AS AMENDED BY THE COURT) 

Hon. John A. Mendez 

Complaint Filed: September 23, 2013 

Removed to Federal Court: November 15, 

2013 

Trial Date: November 9, 2015 

NUTRISHARE, INC., a California

Corporation; 

 Plaintiff, 

 vs. 

CONNECTICUT GENERAL LIFE 

INSURANCE COMPANY, et al., 

 Defendants. 

AND RELATED COUNTER-CLAIM 

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JOINT STIPULATION TO MODIFY AMENDED PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER; ORDER 

Gordon & Rees LLP 

275 Battery Street, Suite 2000 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

TO THE HONORABLE COURT: 

Plaintiff/Counter-Defendant Nutrishare, Inc. (“Nutrishare”) and Defendants/CounterClaimants Connecticut General Life Insurance Company and CIGNA Health and Life Insurance 

Company (“CIGNA”) (collectively, “Parties”) hereby stipulate as follows: 

WHEREAS, Nutrishare filed its Complaint on September 23, 2013 in Sacramento 

Superior Court, and CIGNA removed the suit to this Court on November 15, 2013. 

WHEREAS, CIGNA filed its Counter-claim on November 22, 2013. 

WHEREAS, Nutrishare moved a motion to dismiss CIGNA’s Counter-claims on 

December 16, 2013, which this Court denied in its entirety on March 14, 2014. 

WHEREAS, this Court filed its Status (Pre-trial Scheduling) Order on January 17, 2014 

which set deadlines to complete discovery by March 6, 2015, file dispositive motions by April 

22, 2015 and commence trial on August 3, 2015. 

WHEREAS, Nutrishare moved the Court on April 14, 2014 to certify its March 14, 2014 

Order for interlocutory review. 

WHEREAS, Nutrishare filed its Counter-claims in Reply on April 24, 2014. 

WHEREAS, the Court certified its March 14, 2014 Order for interlocutory review and 

stayed this litigation on June 12, 2014. 

WHEREAS, the Ninth Circuit denied Nutrishare’s Petition for Permission to Appeal 

Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b) on September 25, 2014. 

WHEREAS, on October 3, 2014, upon the Parties’ request and given the delay caused by 

Nutrishare’s appeal, the Court issued its Amended Status (Pre-trial Scheduling) Order which set 

the discovery deadline to June 5, 2015, deadline to file dispositive motions to July 22, 2015, and 

commencement of trial to November 9, 2015. 

WHEREAS, CIGNA moved to strike Nutrishare’s Counter-claims in Reply on October 8, 

2014, which the Court granted on November 24, 2014. 

WHEREAS, the Parties are moving forward with this litigation and are engaging in 

discovery. The Parties are also discussing the possibility of mediation, and know that they have 

to conduct sufficient discovery to ensure that any mediation be productive. The Parties have 

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JOINT STIPULATION TO MODIFY AMENDED PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER; ORDER 

Gordon & Rees LLP 

275 Battery Street, Suite 2000 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

determined that they will not be position to conduct all necessary discovery to engage in a 

worthwhile mediation given the current pretrial deadlines. 

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between Nutrishare and CIGNA through their 

respective counsel of record to modify the current pretrial deadlines as follows: 

 June 26, 2015 – Expert disclosure 

 July 2, 2015 – Rebuttal expert disclosure 

 August 21, 2015 – Discovery cutoff 

 October 7, 2015 – Dispositive motion filing deadline 

 November 11, 2015 – Motion hearing date 

 December 11, 2015 – Final pre-trial conference 

 January 25, 2016 – Trial 

IT IS SO STIPULATED 

 Respectfully submitted, 

Dated: February 19, 2015 GORDON & REES LLP 

By /s/ Jordan S. Altura 

Ronald K. Alberts 

Jordan S. Altura 

Tino X. Do 

Attorneys For Defendants/Counter-Claimants 

CONNECTICUT GENERAL LIFE INSURANCE 

COMPANY and CIGNA HEALTH AND LIFE 

INSURANCE COMPANY 

Dated: February 19, 2015 HOOPER, LUNDY & BOOKMAN, P.C.

 

By /s/ Devin M. Senelick 

Devin M. Senelick 

Katherine M. Dru 

Attorneys For Plaintiff/Counter-Defendant 

NUTRISHARE, INC. 

 

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JOINT STIPULATION TO MODIFY AMENDED PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER; ORDER 

Gordon & Rees LLP 

275 Battery Street, Suite 2000 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

ATTESTATION OF E-FILED SIGNATURE 

I, Jordan S. Altura, am the ECF user whose ID and password are being used to file this 

Joint Stipulation to Modify Amended Pretrial Scheduling Order. In compliance with Local Rule 

5-1(i), I hereby attest that Devin M. Senelick, counsel for Plaintiff/Counter-Defendant 

Nutrishare, Inc. has concurred in this filing.

Dated: February 19, 2015 /s/ Jordan S. Altura 

Jordan S. Altura 

ORDER (AS AMENDED BY THE COURT) 

 The Court having considered the Parties’ Joint Stipulation, and good cause appearing, 

finds that the Amended Pretrial Scheduling Order should be modified in the interests of justice. 

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the current pretrial deadlines be modified as follows: 

 June 26, 2015 – Expert disclosure 

 July 2, 2015 – Rebuttal expert disclosure 

 August 21, 2015 – Discovery cutoff 

 October 21, 2015 – Dispositive motion filing deadline 

 November 18, 2015 at 9:30 a.m. – Motion hearing date 

 January 6, 2016 – Joint pretrial statement due 

 January 13, 2016 at 4:00 p.m. – Final pre-trial conference 

 February 22, 2016 at 9:00 a.m.– Trial 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: 2/20/2015 

 /s/ John A. Mendez_____________ 

Honorable John A. Mendez 

United States District Court Judge 

CHCV/1069469/12663930v.1 

1091097/22381224v.1 

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