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Nature of Suit Code: 791
Nature of Suit: Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Cause of Action: 29:1132 E.R.I.S.A.: Employee Benefits

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 Huss

A Professional Corporation

One Embarcadero Center, 12th Floor

San Francisco, California 94111

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO

Todd M. Schneider (SBN 158253)

Jason H. Kim (SBN 220279) 

Kyle G. Bates (SBN 299114) 

SCHNEIDER WALLACE

COTTRELL KONECKY 

WOTKYNS LLP

2000 Powell Street, Suite 1400 

Emeryville, California 94608 

Tel: (415) 421-7100 

Fax: (415) 421-7105 

tschneider@schneiderwallace.com

jkim@schneiderwallace.com

kbates@schneiderwallace.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff

TRUCKER  HUSS

R. Bradford Huss 

Angel L. Garrett

Dylan D. Rudolph 

One Embarcadero Center, 12th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Tel: (415) 788-3111 

Fax: (415) 421-2017 

Email: bhuss@truckerhuss.com 

 agarrett@truckerhuss.com 

 drudolph@truckerhuss.com 

Joseph C. Faucher, No. 137353 

633 W. 5th Street, 28th Floor 

Los Angeles, California 90071 

Telephone: (213) 537-1016 

Facsimile: (213) 537-1020 

E-mail:jfaucher@truckerhuss.com 

Attorneys for Defendants

SAFEWAY INC. and SAFEWAY 

BENEFIT PLANS COMMITTEE

DENNIS M. LORENZ, Individually and On

Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, 

 Plaintiff,

vs.

SAFEWAY, INC.; SAFEWAY BENEFIT

PLANS COMMITTEE; GREAT-WEST

FINANCIAL RPS LLC; and DOES 1 through

50, inclusive, 

Defendants.

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JOINT STIPULATION TO CONTINUE 

CASE DEADLINES AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER

Assigned to Hon. Jon S. Tigar 

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Plaintiff, Dennis M. Lorenz (“Plaintiff”), and Defendants, Safeway Inc. (“Safeway”) and 

Safeway Benefit Plans Committee (“Benefit Plans Committee”), collectively (“Defendants”),

through their counsel, hereby stipulate and agree that: 

WHEREAS, Plaintiff filed a complaint against Defendants and Great-West Financial RPS 

LLC (“Great-West”) on August 25, 2016; 

WHEREAS, Plaintiff filed an Amended Complaint on September 16, 2016 (Docket No. 7); 

WHEREAS, Plaintiff filed a Second Amended Complaint on November 21, 2016 (Docket 

No. 31); 

WHEREAS, the Court dismissed the claims against Great-West with prejudice and 

consequently removed Great-West as a defendant in this action on March 13, 2017 (Docket No. 58); 

WHEREAS, Plaintiff filed a Third Amended Complaint on March 31, 2017 (Docket No. 

66); 

WHEREAS, after the Court found this matter to be related to the case of Maria Karla 

Terraza v. Safeway Inc., et al. (No. 16-cv-03994-JST) (see Docket No. 26), the Parties in this matter 

and Terraza streamlined their discovery process; 

WHEREAS, the Parties have exchanged initial disclosures, engaged in written discovery, 

and are in the process of scheduling depositions; 

WHEREAS, based on the initial disclosures and the deposition notice the plaintiff in 

Terraza served on Defendants, it is estimated that numerous depositions may be scheduled for 

mutually agreeable dates and times; 

WHEREAS, although the Parties have been working diligently and cooperatively in the 

discovery process and in preparing this case for trial, the Parties believe that, given the number of 

depositions and the scope of discovery, the current schedule does not provide adequate time to 

complete discovery and submit dispositive motions. The Parties therefore respectfully request that 

the Court continue the case deadlines as detailed below;

WHEREAS, the Parties have previously made one request to extend the deadlines for 

completing discovery and filing dispositive motions, and the pretrial and trial dates (Dkt. 78);

WHEREAS, the Parties do not propose any change in the trial schedule or the remainder of 

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the pretrial schedule;

NOW, THEREFORE, the Parties, through their respective counsel, hereby stipulate, subject 

to the approval of the Court, to the following schedule: 

April 27, 2018 − Deadline to complete fact discovery

May 11, 2018 − Deadline for expert disclosures

May 30, 2018 − Deadline for expert rebuttal

June 8, 2018 − Deadline to complete expert discovery

June 21, 2018 − Deadline to file dispositive motions

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

DATED: February 16, 2018 TRUCKER  HUSS

By: /s/R. Bradford Huss 

R. Bradford Huss 

Attorneys for Defendants 

SAFEWAY INC. and SAFEWAY BENEFIT 

PLANS COMMITTEE 

Dated: February 16, 2018 SCHNEIDER, WALLACE, COTTRELL, KONECKY, 

WOTKYNS, LLP

By: /s/Kyle G. Bates________________ 

Kyle G. Bates

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

DENNIS M. LORENZ

I attest that my firm has obtained concurrence in the filing of this document from Kyle G. Bates. 

DATED: February 16, 2018 

TRUCKER  HUSS

By: /s/R. Bradford Huss 

R. Bradford Huss 

Attorneys for Defendants 

SAFEWAY INC. and BENEFIT PLANS

COMMITTEE SAFEWAY INC.

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[PROPOSED] ORDER

Good cause exists for an order continuing the deadlines for completing fact and expert 

discovery, including submitting expert disclosures and rebuttals, and filing dispositive motions to 

the following dates: 

April 27, 2018 − Deadline to complete fact discovery

May 11, 2018 − Deadline for expert disclosures

May 30, 2018 − Deadline for expert rebuttal

June 8, 2018 − Deadline to complete expert discovery

June 21, 2018 − Deadline to file dispositive motions

DATED: 

 Hon. Jon S. Tigar 

 United States District

 

February 21, 208

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