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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Federal Question: Other Civil Rights

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STIPULATED REQUEST TO AMEND SCHEDULING ORDER: CASE NO. 1:11-CV-00540-AWI-GSA

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LAW OFFICE OF SANJAY S. SCHMIDT

Attorney at Law (SB# 247475)

1686 Second St., Suite 219

Livermore, CA 94550

Telephone: (925) 215-7733 

Facsimile: (925) 455-2486

LAW OFFICE OF ALONZO GRADFORD

Attorney at Law (SB# 244201) 

1202 “H” St., Suite C 

Modesto, California 95354 

Telephone: (209) 408-0342 

Facsimile: (209) 408-0797 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

SUSANA ALCALA WOOD

City Attorney (SBN 156366)

JAMES F. WILSON

Senior Deputy City Attorney (SBN 107289)

City of Modesto

P.O. Box 642

1010 Tenth Street, Suite 6300

Modesto, California 95353

Telephone: (209) 577-5284

Facsimile: (209) 544-8260

Attorneys for Defendants

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

FRESNO DIVISION

ARMANDO OLVERA,

Plaintiff,

vs.

OFFICERS MARK ULRICH, BRADLEY 

BEAVERS, BRIAN KLEIBER, RANDY 

RADUECHEL, SERGEANT TIM HELTON, 

DOES 1 THROUGH 30, and CITY OF 

MODESTO, a municipal corporation,

Defendants.

CASE NO. 1:11-CV-00540-AWI-GSA

STIPULATED REQUEST FOR AN 

AMENDED SCHEDULING ORDER; 

ORDER THEREON

The Honorable Gary S. Austin

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The parties stipulate as set forth in the numbered paragraphs below, based on the 

following facts:

A. The Current Scheduling Order (Dkt. #17) set forth the following deadlines and dates: 

a. Non-Expert Discovery: 8/03/2012; 

b. Expert Disclosure: 9/04/2012; 

c. Supplemental Expert Disclosures: 10/04/2012; 

d. Expert Discovery: 11/08/2012; 

e. Non-Dispositive Motions filed by 12/07/2012; 

f. Dispositive Motions filed by 1/11/2013; 

g. Pretrial Conference: 3/21/2013 at 08:30 AM in Courtroom 2 (AWI) before

the Hon. Chief Judge Ishii; 

h. Jury Trial set for 5/14/2013 at 08:30 AM in Courtroom 2 (AWI) before the 

Hon. Judge Anthony W. Ishii.

B. The parties previously scheduled depositions that were to be conducted in advance of 

the August 3, 2012 non-expert discovery cutoff date. However, the depositions had 

to be canceled and re-scheduled due to unforeseen circumstances that required 

counsel for the Defendants to leave town on short notice. Counsel for the Defendants 

and counsel for Plaintiff diligently attempted to complete the depositions prior to the 

cutoff date, but the schedules of the deponents and counsel did not permit this. The 

parties were able to re-schedule the depositions and they were to be conducted on 

August 31, 2012. However, on August 27, 2012, one of the deponents, Defendant 

Ulrich, notified counsel for the Defendants that he would be unavailable for the 

deposition, due to a death in his family. The first available date on everyone’s 

calendars on which to re-set the depositions is September 26, 2012; they have been 

re-scheduled for that date.

C. As a result of the unanticipated re-scheduling of the depositions, it is now impossible 

to comply with the expert disclosure deadline and successive dates; this will 

necessarily require that the disclosure deadline and successive dates be extended in a 

fashion that accounts for the rescheduled depositions, with the Pretrial Conference 

date either remaining as set or being re-scheduled if the Court deems it necessary and 

the Jury Trial date remaining as set.

D. Based on the circumstances described above, the parties now respectfully and jointly 

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request that the court issue an amended scheduling order, which extends the 

discovery and motion deadlines, as set forth below.

WHEREFORE, THE PARTIES STIPULATE and respectfully request that the Court 

order that the Scheduling Order (Dkt. #17) be amended or modified to reflect the deadlines listed 

below, which retain approximately the same intervals as presently exist between the successive 

dates:

1. Deadline to complete Non-Expert Discovery: extended from August 3, 2012 to 

October 3, 2012;

2. Deadline for Expert Disclosure: extended from September 4, 2012 to November 5, 

2012;

3. Deadline for Supplemental Expert Disclosure: extended from October 4, 2012 to 

December 4, 2012; 

4. Deadline for Expert Discovery: extended from November 8, 2012 to January 11, 

2013;

5. Deadline for Non-Dispositive Motions filing deadline: extended from December 7, 

2012 to February 8, 2013;

6. Deadline for Dispositive Motions filing deadline: extended from January 11, 2013 to 

March 8, 2013;

7. The Jury Trial date of May 14, 2013 would remain as set, as would the Pretrial 

Conference date, but if the Court deems it appropriate, the Pretrial Conference would 

be re-scheduled.

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In compliance with the applicable General Order, as filing party, Plaintiff attests that all 

signatories below concur in the filing of this document.

DATED: August 31, 2012 LAW OFFICE OF SANJAY S. SCHMIDT

LAW OFFICE OF ALONZO J. GRADFORD

BY: /s/ Sanjay S. Schmidt 

Attorneys for Plaintiff

DATED: August 31, 2012 MODESTO CITY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE

BY: /s/ James F. Wilson 

 

Attorneys for Defendants 

ORDER 

IT IS SO ORDERED that paragraphs 1 through 6 above are adopted, however, paragraph 

7 is not adopted. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED THAT the Pretrial Conference currently set for 

March 21, 2013, is continued to May 30, 2013, at 8:30 a.m., and the Trial date currently set for 

May 14, 2013, is continued to July 23, 2013, at 8:30 a.m. in Courtroom 2 before Judge Ishii.

The Court notes this is the parties’ third stipulated request to modify the scheduling 

order. Counsel are warned that any future stipulations to modify the scheduling order will be 

looked upon with disfavor absent extraordinary circumstances.

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IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: September 4, 2012 /s/ Gary S. Austin 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE DEAC_Signature-END:

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