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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO CONTINUE TRIAL DATE—No. C-09-00106 RMW

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

E-FILED on 3/15/10

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

METTEYYA BRAHMANA,

Plaintiff,

v.

PHILLIP CHARLES LEMBO, CYBERDATA

CORPORATION, NUMONIX, INC.,

CONQUEST TECHNOLOGY LIMITED, and

CAMERON BARFIELD,

Defendants.

No. C-09-00106 RMW

ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

CONTINUE TRIAL DATE

[Re: Docket No. 146]

On January 15, 2010, the court granted in part and denied in part plaintiff's motion for leave

to file his Third Amended Complaint. In that order, the court modified its earlier scheduling order to

provide defendants with more time to respond to the new complaint. Defendants now move to

continue the trial date from July 6, 2010 to a convenient date after August 23, 2010. 

Defendants seek to continue the trial date because James Cook, lead counsel for defendants,

is scheduled to be in Europe for a family vacation beginning on July 15, 2010. Plaintiff opposes

postponing the trial date, alleging that prospective employers are hesitant to hire him due to this

pending action. Both parties are willing to stipulate to a trial date of June 7, 2010.

The court, however, finds that setting trial for June 7, 2010 is unrealistic in light of the state

of the pleadings. Numerous issues have been raised with respect to plaintiff's Fourth Amended

Complaint ("FAC"). Some of the issues raised by defendants in opposing the FAC have not been

raised before and may have merit, such that the court may need to give plaintiff an opportunity to

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 If the parties would like more certainty regarding the August 23, 2010 trial date, they may want to

consider stipulating to a magistrate judge for the trial.

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amend. Defendants have indicated that they intend to file a motion for summary judgment. In order

to allow defendants to respond to any further amendments to the complaint, the date for hearing on

dispositive motions would need to be advanced. Yet the current date for hearing on dispositive

motions is already only three weeks prior to June 7, 2010. Moreover, there may be a need to hold an

evidentiary hearing on the question of jurisdiction over the Title VII claims. 

While the court recognizes plaintiff's interest in resolving the case quickly, his amendments

to his pleadings have been responsible in part for the delays in getting this case to trial. The court

therefore amends its previous scheduling order as follows:

7/2/10 Hearing on dispositive motions

8/6/10 Joint pretrial statement

8/12/10 Pretrial conference

8/23/10 Jury trial1

 

DATED: 3/15/10

RONALD M. WHYTE

United States District Judge

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Notice of this document has been electronically sent to:

Plaintiff:

Metteyya Brahmana mbrahmana@gmail.com 

Counsel for Defendants:

James Joseph Cook jcook@horanlegal.com

Michael Patrick Burns mburns@horanlegal.com 

Counsel are responsible for distributing copies of this document to co-counsel that have not

registered for e-filing under the court's CM/ECF program.

Dated: 3/15/10 CCL

Chambers of Judge Whyte

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