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Nature of Suit Code: 791
Nature of Suit: Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Cause of Action: 29:1131 E.R.I.S.A. Collection of Delinquent Trust Funds

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Case No. C 05-00225 CW

Second Stip. and [Prop.] Order Extending Case 

Deadlines 

D. WARD KALLSTROM, State Bar No. 076937

DONALD P. SULLIVAN, State Bar No. 191080

MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS LLP

One Market, Spear Street Tower

San Francisco, CA 94105-1126

Tel: 415.442.1000

Fax: 415.442.1001

Attorneys for Defendants

FIREMAN'S FUND INSURANCE COMPANY and 

FIREMAN'S FUND MEDICAL PLAN

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JAMES W. SIMPSON, individually and on 

behalf of all others similarly situated,

Plaintiff,

vs.

FIREMAN'S FUND INSURANCE 

COMPANY,

Defendant,

and

FIREMAN'S FUND MEDICAL PLAN,

Nominal Defendant.

Case No. C 05-00225 CW

ORDER GRANTING SECOND 

STIPULATION EXTENDING CASE 

DEADLINES

[Civil L.R. 6-2]

WHEREAS, the parties have been actively engaged in discovery, as well as settlement 

negotiations;

WHEREAS, the parties participated in a full-day mediation on October 26, 2005 through 

the Court’s ADR program;

WHEREAS, the parties will be participating in another mediation session with a private 

mediator, Charles Renfrew, on Monday, December 5, 2005;

WHEREAS, the discovery to date has included four full-day depositions, and the parties 

have scheduled or are in the process of scheduling three more depositions;

WHEREAS, Plaintiff has served document subpoenas on four non-party witnesses, 

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including two law firms that performed services for Defendant Fireman’s Fund Insurance 

Company (“Fireman’s Fund”);

WHEREAS, to date, only one of the subpoenaed parties has produced documents;

WHEREAS, Fireman’s Fund intends to move to quash the subpoenas served on the two 

law firms that provided advice to Fireman’s Fund regarding, among other issues, the 

circumstances giving rise to this action;

WHEREAS, the issue of whether or not the law firms who provided advice to Fireman’s 

Fund’s must produce documents in response to the subpoenas may need to be briefed by the 

parties and decided by the Court;

WHEREAS, Plaintiff’s counsel would like to complete their review of the documents 

previously produced in this case and produced in response to the subpoenas before taking 

depositions of non-party witnesses;

WHEREAS, the parties submitted a stipulation and proposed order on November 8, 2005 

requesting that the Court extend the case-related deadlines by approximately five weeks;

WHEREAS, the Court signed the proposed order, except continued the original pre-trial 

conference and trial dates by approximately six months;

WHEREAS, the relief requested in this Stipulation will not delay the resolution of this 

case because it does not seek to re-set the dates for the Final Pre-Trial Conference or Trial (in 

fact, the proposed date for the hearing on the cross motions for summary judgment is 

approximately five months before the trial date); 

NOW THEREFORE, FOR GOOD CAUSE SHOWN, THE PARTIES HEREBY 

STIPULATE and AGREE that the case-related deadlines shall be extended by approximately six 

weeks, as follows:

1. Completion of Fact Discovery: January 31, 2006

2. Disclosure of Identities and Reports of Expert

Witnesses: January 31, 2006

3. Completion of Expert Discovery: January 31, 2006

4. Plaintiffs’ Dispositive Motion Filing Cutoff: March 2, 2006

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5. Defendants’ Opposition and Cross-Motion: March 20, 2006

6. Plaintiffs’ Reply and Opposition to Cross-Motion: March 27, 2006

7. Defendants’ Reply on Cross-Motion: April 3, 2006

8. Hearing on Dispositive Motions and Final Case

Management Conference at 10:00 a.m. on: April 21, 2006

[Previously scheduled for

March 10, 2006]

The following case-related dates remain unchanged:

1. Final Pre-Trial Conference at 1:30 p.m. on: September 8, 2006

2. Trial: 4-day court trial will begin at 8:30 a.m. on: September 18, 2006

IT IS SO STIPULATED:

Dated: November 29, 2005 COHEN, MILLSTEIN, HAUSFELD, & TOLL, P.L.L.C.

LEWIS, FEINBERG, RENAKER & JACKSON, P.C.

s/Jeffrey Lewis

By: Jeffrey Lewis, Esq.

Attorneys for Plaintiff

Dated: November 29, 2005 MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS LLP

s/Donald P. Sullivan

By: D. Ward Kallstrom, Esq.

Donald P. Sullivan, Esq.

Attorneys for Defendants

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

 11/30/05 /s/ CLAUDIA WILKEN

Dated: _________________

Hon. Claudia Wilken

U.S. District Judge

1-SF/7318097.2

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