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Nature of Suit Code: 791
Nature of Suit: Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Cause of Action: 29:1001 E.R.I.S.A.: Employee Retirement

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 SECOND STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER EXTENDING DISCOVERY DEADLINES – CASE NO. 11-CV-3828 EMC 

Gibson, Dunn & 

Crutcher LLP 

Jonathan C. Dickey, No. 88226 

Steven J. Johnson, No. 121568 

GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER LLP 

1881 Page Mill Road 

Palo Alto, CA 94304-1211 

Telephone: (650) 849-5300 

Facsimile: (650) 849-5333 

Email: jdickey@gibsondunn.com 

 sjjohnson@gibsondunn.com 

R. Bradford Huss, No. 71303 

Clarissa A. Kang, No. 210660 

Sean T. Strauss, No. 245811 

TRUCKER  HUSS, A Professional Corporation 

One Embarcadero Center, 12th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94111 

Telephone: (415) 788-3111 

Facsimile: (415) 421-2017 

Email: bhuss@truckerhuss.com 

 ckang@truckerhuss.com 

 sstrauss@truckerhuss.com 

Attorneys for Defendant 

FRANKLIN RESOURCES, INC.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

JOHN SENDER, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

FRANKLIN RESOURCES, INC. and DOES 

1-15, 

Defendants. 

CASE NO. 11-cv-3828 EMC 

SECOND STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER EXTENDING DISCOVERY 

DEADLINES 

WHEREAS, this Court’s First Amended Case Management and Pretrial Order for Jury Trial 

(“First Amended Case Management Order”) (ECF No. 146), entered on October 19, 2015, set a nonexpert discovery cut-off of February 18, 2016, an expert discovery cut-off of March 31, 2016, and a 

trial date of August 15, 2016; 

WHEREAS, on January 5, 2016, the Court entered an Order Extending Discovery Deadlines, 

based on a stipulation of the Parties, amending the Court’s First Amended Case Management and 

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Pretrial Order and extending the non-expert discovery deadline to April 30, 2016, the deadline to 

disclose expert reports to April 15, 2016, the deadline for expert rebuttal reports to May 6, 2016, and 

the expert discovery deadline to May 25, 2016 (“Second Amended Case Management Order”) (ECF 

No. 178); 

WHEREAS, the Parties have diligently engaged in discovery following the First and Second 

Amended Case Management Orders; 

WHEREAS, since the First and Second Amended Case Management Orders, Defendant has 

produced fifty-eight boxes of hardcopy documents and over five thousand pages of documents from 

electronically stored information from nine custodians pursuant to Orders of the Court dated December 

22, 2015, and January 14, 2016 (ECF Nos. 167, 181); and 

WHEREAS, Franklin is continuing to copy for production to Plaintiff certain documents that 

were designated by Plaintiff for copying following inspection; 

WHEREAS, since the First and Second Case Management Orders, Plaintiff has produced 1,424 

pages of documents and answered in detail 18 interrogatories and 39 requests for admission, and was 

deposed on March 4, 2016; 

WHEREAS, since the First and Second Amended Case Management Orders, the Parties have 

engaged in extensive discovery motion practice. Such motion practice includes the December 7, 2015 

Letter Brief Regarding Defendant’s Privilege Log and the Fiduciary Exception to the Attorney-Client 

Privilege (ECF No. 170), the February 12, 2016 Letter Brief Regarding ERISA discovery Dispute (ECF 

No. 185), and the March 7, 2016 Letter Brief Regarding Dispute Concerning Section 419 Depositions 

(ECF No. 196) before Magistrate Judge Kim, and three objections by Plaintiff to the rulings by 

Magistrate Judge Kim on those motions, submitted to the Court, as follows: Plaintiff’s March 3, 2016 

Objection to a Portion of the Magistrate Judge’s February 18, 2016 Order Re Attorney-Client Privilege 

(ECF No. 194), Plaintiff’s March 17, 2016 Motion for Relief From Nondispositive Pretrial Order of 

Magistrate Judge (ECF No. 207), and Plaintiff’s March 23, 2016 Motion for Relief from 

Nondispositive Pretrial Order of Magistrate Judge (ECF No. 210); 

WHEREAS, in light of the significant document productions that have been ongoing, the need 

for time to analyze those documents, and the motion practice concerning privilege issues and the scope 

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of depositions, the Parties were not able to conduct certain depositions in March of 2016 and may not 

be able to conduct them all in April of 2016; 

WHEREAS, the Parties are currently meeting and conferring over recent discovery requests 

from Plaintiff concerning inter alia other ESOP beneficiaries, Defendant’s redactions of documents on 

privilege and privacy grounds, and other discovery issues, which may result in additional motion 

practice; 

WHEREAS, the Parties have taken the deposition of Plaintiff, are in the process of scheduling 

ten depositions for deponents located in California, Florida, New Jersey, and New York, and anticipate 

scheduling additional depositions prior to the fact discovery cutoff; 

WHEREAS, the scheduling of certain depositions has been further complicated by requests 

from certain witnesses, including several third-party witnesses, to postpone their depositions for 

personal reasons, including a request from Nicole Smith to postpone her deposition due to the recent 

passing of her mother, requests to reschedule depositions from Earl Johnson in Los Angeles, Judith 

Zitzewitz in Florida, Bank of New York Mellon in New York, and Linda Sender in Sacramento, as well 

as a request from witness Charles Johnson in Florida to reschedule his deposition to the first week of 

May when he will be in California on other business and could be deposed here; 

WHEREAS, the Parties have met and conferred regarding the foregoing and agree that under 

the circumstances there is good cause to request a modest extension of the deadlines for non-expert and 

expert discovery to accommodate the analysis of recently-produced documents, the resolution of 

pending discovery disputes, the taking of remaining depositions, including a number of out of state 

depositions, and other additional discovery by the Parties; and 

WHEREAS, the Parties are not requesting any continuance of the August 15, 2016 trial date or 

July 19, 2016 pre-trial conference set forth in the Court’s October 19, 2015 First Amended Case 

Management and Pretrial Order (ECF No. 146); 

THEREFORE, good cause existing, IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED, by and 

between the Parties hereto, through their counsel of record, that they jointly request a modification of 

the deadlines for fact and expert discovery in the Court’s Order Extending Discovery Deadlines of 

January 5, 2016 (ECF. No. 178), and respectfully request the Court to adopt the following new 

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deadlines: 

 1. The Parties respectfully request that the deadline for non-expert discovery be extended from 

April 30, 2016 to May 31, 2016; 

 2. The Parties respectfully request that the deadline for disclosing expert opening reports be 

extended from April 15, 2016 to May 16, 2016; 

 3. The Parties respectfully request that the deadline for disclosing expert rebuttal reports be 

extended from May 6, 2016 to June 6, 2016; and 

 4. The Parties respectfully request that the deadline for expert discovery be extended from May 

25, 2016 to June 24, 2016. 

Dated: April 5, 2016 

CERA LLP 

By: /s/ Solomon B. Cera 

 Solomon B. Cera 

Solomon B. Cera 

Louis A. Kessler 

595 Market Street, Suite 2300 

San Francisco, California 94105 

Tel: (415) 777-2230 

Fax: (415) 777-5189 

scera@cerallp.com 

lakessler@cerallp.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

John Sender 

GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER LLP

By: /s/ Steven J. Johnson 

 Steven J. Johnson 

Jonathan C. Dickey 

Steven J. Johnson 

1881 Page Mill Road 

Palo Alto, CA 94304-1211 

Tel: (650) 849-5300 

Fax: (650) 849-5333 

jdickey@gibsondunn.com 

sjjohnson@gibsondunn.com 

TRUCKER  HUSS, A Professional Corporation 

By: /s/ R. Bradford Huss 

 R. Bradford Huss 

R. Bradford Huss 

Clarissa A. Kang 

Sean T. Strauss 

One Embarcadero Center, 12th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94111 

Tel: (415) 788-3111 

Fax: (415) 421-2017 

bhuss@truckerhuss.com 

ckang@truckerhuss.com 

sstrauss@truckerhuss.com 

Attorneys for Defendant 

Franklin Resources, Inc. 

I attest that I have obtained Mr. Cera’s and Mr. Huss’s concurrence in the filing of this 

document.

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 [PROPOSED] ORDER EXTENDING DISCOVERY DEADLINES – CASE NO. 11-CV-3828 EMC 

Gibson, Dunn & 

Crutcher LLP 

[PROPOSED] ORDER 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, the following discovery deadlines are extended as follows: 

(1) the non-expert discovery cut-off is extended from April 30, 2016 to May 31, 2016; (2) the 

deadline for disclosing expert opening reports is extended from April 15, 2016 to May 16, 2016; 

(3) the deadline for disclosing expert rebuttal reports is extended from May 6, 2016 to June 6, 2016; 

and (4) the expert discovery cut-off is extended from May 25, 2016 to June 24, 2016. All other dates 

established by the First Amended Case Management and Pretrial Order for Jury Trial of October 19, 

2015 are unchanged. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: ________________________ _____________________________________ 

 Hon. Edward M. Chen 

 United States District Judge 

April 8, 2016

U

NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Edward M. Chen

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