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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Petition for Removal

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] REVISED SCHEDULING ORDER 

COOPER, WHITE

& COOPER LLP

COOPER, WHITE & COOPER LLP

EDWARD L. SEIDEL (SBN 200865)

PATRICK M. ROSVALL (SBN 217468)

201 California Street, 17th Floor

San Francisco, California 94111

Telephone: (415) 433-1900

Facsimile: (415) 433-5530

Attorneys for Defendant Comcast Cable 

Communications Management, LLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, SACRAMENTO DIVISION

SACRAMENTO METROPOLITAN CABLE 

TELEVISION COMMISSION,

Plaintiff,

vs.

COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS 

MANAGEMENT, LLC,

Defendant.

CASE NO. 2:18-cv-00500-WBS-EFB

CASE NO. 2:18-cv-01212-WBS-EFB

STIPULATION AND REVISED 

SCHEDULING ORDER

Judge: Hon. William B. Shubb

Trial Date: November 10, 2020

STIPULATION

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant disruptions to society, and those 

disruptions have had serious impacts on this case, including forcing the parties to cancel out-ofstate depositions that were the predicate for the prior scheduling order. The pandemic has also 

disrupted counsel's ability to conduct discovery, review case materials, prepare witnesses for 

depositions, prepare to take depositions, and prepare to draft and oppose the contemplated motions 

for summary judgment. As a result, the parties stipulate to a continuance of the deadlines 

provided in the Court's Scheduling Order entered February 19, 2020 (Docket No. 29) as stated in 

the numbered paragraphs below.

1. The parties will complete non-expert depositions by October 1, 2020.

2. The parties intend to file motions for summary judgment. The Court will hear the 

motions on November 23, 2020 at 1:30 p.m. Briefs will be filed according to Eastern District 

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& COOPER LLP

Local Rule 230, i.e., opening briefs are due October 26, 2020; opposition briefs are due November 

9, 2020; and reply briefs are due November 16, 2020.

This schedule reflects the re-setting of depositions previously on schedule to the following 

dates. The depositions may be taken remotely at the option of the noticing party and upon 

agreement by all parties. Depositions may be rescheduled or relocated without court approval 

upon the written agreement of all of the parties: 

- August 26, 27 and 28, 2020, on consecutive days, for the depositions in Philadelphia of 

Jeff Aldi, Joseph Lance, and Marc Lockard.

- September 11, 2020: Deposition of Garth Ashpaugh in Tampa, Florida. .

- September 16 and September 17, 2020: Consecutive day depositions of Robert Davison 

and Steven Detrick in Sacramento.

- September 24, 2020, Deposition of LeAnn Peling in San Francisco.

Expert disclosure shall remain per FRCP Rule 26 (90 days before trial).

5. The parties will attend a judicial settlement conference between the MSJ hearing 

and the pre-trial conference, on a date to be scheduled by the Court. Magistrate Judge Brennan's 

department has indicated availabilities for a 10:00 a.m. conference on either Thursday, December 

17, 2020, January 7, 2021, or January 14, 2021.

6. Following the settlement conference, a pre-trial conference will be held on a date to 

be determined at 1:30 p.m.

7. A two-day bench trial will be held on either March 2, 2021 or March 23, 2021, at 

9:00 a.m.

DATED: April 20, 2020 COOPER, WHITE & COOPER LLP

By: Edward L. Seidel

Edward L. Seidel

Attorneys for Defendant Comcast Cable 

Communications Management, LLC

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& COOPER LLP

DATED: April 20, 2020 BEST BEST & KRIEGER LLP

By: Mark Velsaquez (as authorized 4/20/20)

Mark Velasquez

Attorneys for Plaintiff Sacramento Metropolitan Cable 

Television Commission

ORDER

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that:

1. The parties shall complete non-expert depositions by October 1, 2020. Expert 

disclosure shall remain per FRCP Rule 26 (90 days before trial).

2. The Court will hear the parties' motions for partial summary judgment on 

November 30, 2020 at 1:30 p.m. Briefs will be filed according to Eastern District Local Rule 

230.

3. The parties shall attend a judicial settlement conference on Thursday, January 14, 

2021 at 10:00 a.m. before the Hon. Edmund F. Brennan, Magistrate Judge, in Courtroom 8, 13th 

Floor.

Each party is directed to have a principal capable of disposition at the Settlement 

Conference or to be fully authorized to settle the matter on any terms at the Settlement 

Conference. Each party is further directed to submit via email to EFBorders@caed.uscourts.gov 

a confidential settlement conference statement no later than January 7, 2021 by 12:00 PM 

(Noon).

Such statements are not to be filed with the clerk, although the parties may agree, or not, to 

serve each other with the settlement statements. However, each party shall e file a one -page 

document entitled "Notice of Submission of Confidential Settlement Conference Statement." If 

the settlement judge is not the trial judge, the Confidential Settlement Conference Statement shall 

not be disclosed to the trial judge. If the parties have not already done so, the parties are further 

required to file a waiver of disqualification as to Magistrate Judge Brennan Case 2:18-cv-00500-

WBS-EFB within 7 days from the date of this order, and pursuant to Local Rule 270(b), since this 

judge is also the Magistrate Judge assigned to this case.

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4. The parties will attend a pre-trial conference with the Court on February 1, 2021 

at 1:30 p.m. in Courtroom 5 (WBS).

5. The Court will hold a two-day bench trial commencing on March 23, 2021, at 

9:00 a.m. in Courtroom 5 (WBS). 

Dated: April 21, 2020

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