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Nature of Suit Code: 110
Nature of Suit: Insurance
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Insurance Contract

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ANDERSONTE LLOS, McPHAR EPHONE 444 SOUTH FLOWER S LAW OFFICES ATHI NGRTY 213 ELE-FIR 688 SLIN, C-008 SAT FLO LIFO & C0 ËRNORFONN ACSI TREET IA 90M IERS L L071 E 213-290622LP1 -7594

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MICHAEL C. PHILLIPS APC (Bar No. 48473)

LISA L. COPLEN (Bar No. 142726)

ANDERSON, McPHARLIN & CONNERS LLP

Thirty-First Floor

444 South Flower Street

Los Angeles, California 90071-2901

TELEPHONE: (213) 688-0080 Ë FACSIMILE: (213) 622-7594

Attorneys for Defendant, WESTCHESTER SURPLUS LINES INSURANCE COMPANY

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, FRESNO DIVISION

GERAWAN FARMING PARTNERS, INC., a

California corporation,

Plaintiff,

vs.

WESTCHESTER SURPLUS LINES

INSURANCE COMPANY, ARCH

SPECIALTY INSURANCE COMPANY,

ROYAL SURPLUS LINES INSURANCE

COMPANY and DOES 1 through 100,

Defendants.

Case No. 1:05-CV-01186-AWI-DLB

STIPULATION AND ORDER TO CONTINUE 

TRIAL AND RELATED DATES

TO THIS HONORABLE COURT:

RECITALS

A. Plaintiff GERAWAN FARMING PARTNERS, INC. ("GERAWAN") filed this

action on June 6, 2005, in Fresno Superior Court, naming WESTCHESTER SURPLUS LINES

INSURANCE COMPANY ("WESTCHESTER"), ARCH SPECIALTY INSURANCE

COMPANY ("ARCH") and ROYAL SURPLUS LINES INSURANCE COMPANY ("ROYAL")

as defendants. This matter involves an insurance coverage dispute regarding benefits under one or

more insurance policies for pitting to nectarines processed at GERAWAN's packing facility.

B. On September 15, 2005, WESTCHESTER removed this action to the United States

District Court for the Eastern District of California, Fresno Division.

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C. The parties have been diligently conducting discovery according to the scheduling

conference order issued by this Court;

D. However, due to the discovery of additional facts which came to light during

several of the party-affiliated depositions; due to the necessity of deposing additional partyaffiliated witnesses who have not yet been depose; and due to the newly discovered documents

essential to the litigation of the case, additional time is needed by the parties to complete discovery

and to prepare the case for trial.

STIPULATION

Based on the above recitals, the parties, through their respective attorneys of record, hereby

stipulate to the entry of the Order filed concurrently herewith continuing the Trial and all related

dates as follows:

1. Non-Expert Discovery Cut-Off deadline of July 27, 2007, will be continued to

September 21, 2007;

2. Expert Disclosure deadline of August 3, 2007, will be continued to October 19,

2007;

3. Expert Discovery deadline of September 18, 2007, will be continued to November

23, 2007;

4. Non-Dispositive Motion Filing deadline of August 10, 2007, will be continued to

October 26, 2007;

5. Deadline of September 7, 2007, for hearing on Non-Dispositive Motion, will be

continued to November 30, 2007;

6. Dispositive Motion Filing deadline of September 28, 2007, will be continued to

December 7, 2007;

7. Dispositive Motion Hearing deadline of November 2, 2007, will be continued to

February 1, 2008;

8. Mandatory Settlement Conference date of August 6, 2007, will be continued to

December 3, 2007;

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9. Pre-Trial Conference date of November 16, 2007, will be continued to January 16,

2008;

10. Trial date of January 14, 2008, will be continued to March 3, 2008.

DATED: July 11, 2007 STAMMER, MCKNIGHT, BARNUM & BAILEY

By:_______/s/______________________________

Michael Mallery

Attorneys for Plaintiff, GERWAN FARMING

PARTNERS, INC. 

DATED: July 11, 2007 ANDERSON, McPHARLIN & CONNERS LLP

By:_______/s/_______________________________

Michael C. Phillips APC

Lisa L. Coplen, Esq.

William S. Hong, Esq.

Attorneys for Defendant, WESTCHESTER

SURPLUS 

LINES INSURANCE COMPANY

DATED: July 11, 2007 CLAUSEN MILLER PC

By:________/s/________________________________

. Keith E. Butler, Esq.

Jeffrey Neal Gesell, Esq.

Attorneys for Defendant, ARCH SPECIALTY

INSURANCE COMPANY and ROYAL SURPLUS

LINE

INSURANCE COMPANY

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: July 17, 2007 /s/ Dennis L. Beck 

9b0hie UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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