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Nature of Suit Code: 110
Nature of Suit: Insurance
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Breach of Contract

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Stipulation re Pre-trial Conference & Discovery Cut-off Continuance

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SHERMAN M. SPITZ, SBN 082944 

LANCE A. LaBELLE, SBN 116835 

RYAN C. TULEY, SBN 198249 

BERGER KAHN 

A Law Corporation 

Mail Service: 

 Post Office Box 19694 

 Irvine, CA 92623-9694 

Location: 

 2 Park Plaza, Suite 650 

 Irvine, California 92614-8516 

Tel: (949) 474-1880 • Fax: (949) 474-7265 

Attorneys for Defendants 

CONTINENTAL CASUALTY COMPANY 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

STEVEN SMITH, FERNANDEZ 

A. SMITH, AND THE ESTATE 

OF BONNIE JOYCE SMITH, 

 

 Plaintiffs, 

vs. 

CONTINENTAL CASUALTY 

COMPANY, 

Defendants. 

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CASE NO. 02-5431 OWW SMS 

Complaint Filed: 4/19/02 

[Assigned to Honorable Oliver 

W. Wanger, Courtroom 2] 

STIPULATION AND ORDER 

CONTINUING TRIAL, THE PRETRIAL CONFERENCE AND THE 

EXPERT DISCOVERY CUT-OFF 

 

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Stipulation re Pre-trial Conference & Discovery Cut-off Continuance 

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RECITALS

Whereas, trial in this matter is set for September 13, 

2005, with a pre-trial conference scheduled for July 18, 

2005; 

The cut-off for expert discovery is currently June 30, 

2005; 

Recently, the parties were able to complete several 

depositions, including the depositions of Plaintiff 

Fernandez Smith and the wife of Plaintiff Steven Smith; 

During the course of these depositions, further 

information was obtained which Defendant Continental 

Casualty Company believes necessitates four additional 

depositions (specifically, the depositions of John Gordon, 

Susan Hall, and representatives of the Mechanic’s Bank and 

the Benicia California Housing Authority); 

In addition, Plaintiffs believe it may be necessary to 

take the deposition of Sharon Williams of Air Ride, Inc. 

(decedent Bonnie Smith’s former employer); 

The parties agree that these depositions should go 

forward prior to the expert depositions in this case; 

However, in light of the schedules of these third-party 

witnesses and the schedules of the involved counsel, the 

parties do not anticipate being able to complete these 

depositions before July 22, 2005; 

Consequently, the parties believe this matter can be 

more efficiently and economically litigated if trial, the 

expert discovery cut-off and the pre-trial conference are 

continued approximately 60 days; 

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Stipulation re Pre-trial Conference & Discovery Cut-off Continuance 

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The Parties have met and conferred regarding trial 

availability and counsel are available for trial during the 

last week of November and the first two weeks of December 

2005. 

STIPULATION

IT IS THEREFORE STIPULATED by and between the parties, 

through their respective counsel of record, that: 

1. The June 30, 2005 expert discovery cut-off date be 

continued August 30, 2005; 

2. The July 18, 2005 pre-trial conference and the 

September 13, 2005 trial be continued approximately 60 

days. 

DATED: June ___, 2005 BERGER KAHN, A Law Corporation 

By:___________________________ 

SHERMAN M. SPITZ 

LANCE A. LaBELLE 

 RYAN C. TULEY 

Attorneys for Defendant 

CONTINENTAL CASUALTY CO. 

DATED: June__, 2005 

GREENE, BROILLET & WHEELER, LLP 

By: 

MARK T. QUIGLEY 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

IC/CNA/SMITH/34623/STIP 6/05 

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[Proposed] Order re Pre-trial Conference & Discovery Cut-off Continuance 

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ORDER

GOOD CAUSE HAVING BEEN SHOWN, it is ordered that: 

1. The expert discovery cut-off date is continued 

from June 30, 2005 to August 30, 2005; 

2. The pre-trial conference is continued from July 

18, 2005 to September 12, 2005, at 11:00 a.m., in Courtroom 

2; and 

3. Trial is continued from September 13, 2005 to 

November 8, 2005, at 9:00 a.m., in Courtroom 2. 

*NO FURTHER CONTINUANCES 

 

DATED: 6/14/05 By: /s/ OLIVER W. WANGER 

 OLIVER W. WANGER 

Judge of the United States 

District Court 

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Proof of Service

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PROOF OF SERVICE 

I am over the age of 18 and not a party to the within 

action. My business address is 2 Park Plaza, Suite 650, 

Irvine, California 92614-8516. I am employed by the law 

firm of Berger Kahn, A Law Corporation, in Orange County, 

California. 

On June 9, 2005, I served the within document described 

as: STIPULATION RE AND [PROPOSED] ORDER CONTINUING THE PRETRIAL CONFERENCE AND EXPERT DISCOVERY CUT-OFF on the 

interested parties in this action: 

[X] by placing [] the original [X] a true copy thereof 

enclosed in a single envelope [X] addressed as 

follows: [ ] addressed as stated on the attached 

mailing list: 

Mark T. Quigley, Esq. 

GREENE, BROILLET, PANISH & WHEELER, LLP 

100 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 2100 

Santa Monica, CA 90407-2131 

[X] BY MAIL - I deposited such envelope for processing 

in the mail room in our offices. I am “readily 

familiar” with the firm’s practice of collection 

and processing correspondence for mailing. It is 

deposited with the U.S. Postal Service on that same 

day with postage thereon fully prepaid at Irvine, 

California, in the ordinary course of business. I 

am aware that on motion of a party served, service 

is presume invalid if postal cancellation date or 

postage meter date is more than one day after the 

date of deposition for mailing in affidavit. 

Executed this 9th day of June 2005, at Irvine, 

California. 

[X] (Federal) I declare that I am employed in the 

office of a member of the bar of this Court at 

whose direction the service was made. 

 

By: 

LINDA D. OWEN 

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