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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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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

HAROLD and DOROTHY BENNETT,

Plaintiffs,

v.

STATE FARM GENERAL INSURANCE 

COMPANY, and DOES 1 through 

100, inclusive,

Defendants.

No. 1:14-cv-01377-GEB-JLT

ORDER CONTINUING STATUS 

(PRETRIAL SCHEDULING) CONFERENCE

Plaintiffs state in the Joint Status Report filed April 

6, 2015, as follows: “Plaintiffs[] are currently assessing 

whether certain developments necessitate amending the complaint. 

Plaintiff Dorothy Bennett passed away in September 2014, and as 

discussed further in Section L below, a conservator of the person 

and estate has been appointed for plaintiff Harold Bennett.” (JSR 

2:8-11, ECF No. 13.) Defendant State Farm responds in the JSR 

that it “anticipates filing a motion for substitution of parties 

in the event Plaintiffs do not do so.” (Id. at 2:19-20.)

These representations reveal this case is not ready to 

be scheduled. Therefore, the Status (Pretrial Scheduling) 

Conference scheduled for hearing on April 20, 2015, is continued 

to May 18, 2015, at 9:00 a.m. A further joint status report shall 

be filed no later than fourteen (14) days prior to the Status 

Conference, in which the parties shall address any procedures

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they intend to take, and the timing thereof, to replace the named 

Plaintiffs in light of one Plaintiff’s death and the other 

Plaintiff’s conservatorship. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 14, 2015

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