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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

EL DORADO IRRIGATION DISTRICT,

a political subdivision of the

State of California,

NO. CIV. S-03-949 LKK/GGH

Plaintiff,

v. O R D E R

TRAYLOR BROS., INC., an 

Indiana corporation,

Defendant.

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AND RELATED COUNTER-CLAIMS.

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The court is in receipt of Traylor Bros., Inc. and Traveler’s

ex parte application relative to their motions to strike expert

reports. The ex parte application as well as the motion to strike

experts, styled as a motion for sanctions, were improperly noticed

before the magistrate judge and are addressed herein by the

undersigned. In their ex parte application, defendants seek relief

from the court’s discovery deadline to allow their motion to strike

to be heard. Defendants move to strike (1) the expert report of

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Mark Korkowski, which they assert was disclosed on December 2,

2005, well after the court’s September 23, 2005 rebuttal expert

deadline; and (2) El Dorado Irrigation District’s September 23,

2005 rebuttal expert witness disclosure. On its face, any rebuttal

expert disclosed by September 23, 2005 was timely under the court’s

July 20, 2005 Status Order. 

Accordingly, the court hereby ORDERS that:

1. The discovery deadline set by the court’s July 20, 2005

Status Order is EXTENDED solely for the purposes of hearing TBI’s

motion to strike the expert report and any testimony of Mark

Korkowski as untimely designated; and

2. The motion to strike is now SET for hearing before the

undersigned on January 17, 2006 at 10:00 a.m. in Courtroom No. 4.

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: December 13, 2005.

/s/Lawrence K. Karlton 

LAWRENCE K. KARLTON

SENIOR JUDGE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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