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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Employment Discrimination

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Case No.: 3:17-cv-03502-JST 1 JOINT STIPULATION TO EXTEND EXPERT 

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HUNTER PYLE, SBN 191125

TANYA P. TAMBLING, SBN 262979

HUNTER PYLE LAW

428 Thirteenth Street, 11th Floor

Oakland, California 94612

Telephone: (510) 444-4400

Facsimile: (510) 444-4410

hunter@hunterpylelaw.com, ttambling@hunterpylelaw..com

Attorneys for Plaintiff

BARBARA PERRY

[Additional Counsel on the Next Page]

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

BARBARA PERRY,

Plaintiff,

vs.

PERDUE FOODS, LLC and COLEMAN 

NATURAL FOODS, LLC,

Defendants.

CASE NO.: 3:17-cv-03502-JST

Judge Jon S. Tigar

Courtroom 9 – 19th Floor

Mag. Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley

Courtroom F – 15th Floor

JOINT STIPULATION TO EXTEND 

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Complaint filed: June 16, 2017

Trial date: June 10, 2019

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ALEX G. TOVARIAN, SBN 264547

LAW OFFICES OF ALEKSEY G. TOVARIAN

50 California Street, Ste. 3325

San Francisco, CA 94111

Telephone: (415) 984-9990

Facsimile: (415) 520-5830 

tovarianlaw@gmail.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff

BARBARA PERRY

MICHAEL A. HOOD, SBN 71258

ERIN W. KENDRELLA, SBN 273504

JACKSON LEWIS P.C.

200 Spectrum Center Drive, Ste. 500

Irvine, CA 92618

Telephone: (949) 885-1360

Facsimile: (949) 885-1380

michael.hood@jacksonlewis.com, erin.kendrella@jacksonlewis.com

Attorneys for Defendant

PERDUE FOODS LLC dba Coleman Natural Foods 

(erroneously sued as Coleman Natural Foods, LLC)

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JOINT STIPULATION TO EXTEND EXPERT DISCOVERY DEADLINES

Plaintiff BARBARA PERRY (“Plaintiff”) and Defendant PERDUE FOODS LLC 

dba Coleman Natural Foods (erroneously sued as Coleman Natural Foods, LLC)

(“Defendant”), by and through their counsel of record, hereby jointly stipulate and 

respectfully request that the Court extend expert discovery deadlines sixty (60) days as 

follows: (1) expert disclosures from February 8, 2019 to April 9, 2019; (2) expert rebuttals 

from February 22, 2019 to April 23, 2019; and (3) expert discovery cut-off from March 22, 

2019 to May 21, 2019. The Parties are not requesting a continuance of the June 10, 2019 

trial

In support of this stipulation, the Parties state as follows:

WHEREAS, counsel for Plaintiff will move to withdraw as counsel of record for 

Plaintiff and will file a Motion to Withdraw by February 5, 2019;

WHEREAS, in light of Plaintiff’s counsel need to withdraw, the Parties desire to 

continue expert discovery deadlines to provide Plaintiff’s counsel with adequate time to

withdraw and for Plaintiff to retain new counsel to conduct expert discovery, while saving

associated expert discovery costs until Plaintiff has retained new counsel;

WHEREAS, this Court entered its initial Pretrial Scheduling Order (“Scheduling 

Order”) on September 20, 2017 (Docket number 28);

WHEREAS, Plaintiff and Defendant entered into a stipulation to continue fact 

discovery deadlines, expert discovery deadlines, and dispositive motion deadlines only on 

June 12, 2018;

WHEREAS, on June 14, 2018, this Court continued fact discovery deadlines, expert 

discovery deadlines, dispositive motion deadlines, and continued the trial date to April 8, 

2019 (Docket number 37);

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WHEREAS, Plaintiff and Defendant entered into a second stipulation to continue 

fact discovery, expert discovery, dispositive motion deadlines, and the trial date on August 

22, 2018;

WHEREAS, on August 27, 2018, this Court continued fact discovery deadlines, 

expert discovery deadlines, dispositive motion deadlines, and continued the trial date to 

June 10, 2019 (Docket number 39);

WHEREAS, on December 21, 2018, the Parties filed an initial Joint Stipulation to 

Extend Expert Discovery Deadlines by approximately one month as the Parties deferred 

costs until mediation on December 19, 2018. However, mediation was unsuccessful 

(Docket number 56);

WHEREAS, on December 21, 2018, the Court granted the Parties Stipulation to 

Extend Expert Discovery Deadlines to the current deadlines (Docket number 57);

WHEREAS, the Parties have completed all fact discovery except for the continued 

deposition of Barbara Davis, which is scheduled to take place on February 1, 2019 at 5:00 

p.m. Counsel for Plaintiff will take this deposition;

WHEREAS, although the Parties were prepared to meet the expert disclosure 

deadline of February 8, 2019, with the new development that Plaintiff’s counsel must 

withdraw, Plaintiff desires additional time to conduct expert discovery with her new 

counsel when one is retained;

WHEREAS, counsel for Plaintiff will move to withdraw as counsel of record for 

Plaintiff and will file a Motion to Withdraw as soon as possible;

WHEREAS, Local Rule 7-2 requires a 35-day notice period; 

WHEREAS, Defendant does not intend to oppose Plaintiff’s Motion to Withdraw;

WHEREAS, based on the progress of this case, an extension of the deadlines for 

expert discovery will allow the Parties to appropriately prepare for trial; 

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WHEREAS, the Parties are not requesting a continuance of the trial date;

WHEREAS, based on the progress of this case, an extension of the deadlines for 

disclosing expert witnesses and completing expert discovery will allow the Parties to 

resolve Plaintiff’s counsel’s Motion to Withdraw and give the Parties sufficient time to 

complete expert discovery prior to trial;

WHEREAS, the proposed extension of the deadlines for expert discovery will not 

delay or prejudice the timely resolution of this case;

WHEREAS, Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 16(b)(4) requires good cause and 

judicial consent as prerequisites to modifying a scheduling order; and

THEREFORE, THE PARTIES HEREBY STIPULATE to, and seek an order from 

this Court permitting the following new deadlines:

Event Date 

Expert disclosures April 9, 2019

Expert rebuttal April 23, 2019

Expert discovery cut-off May 21, 2019

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

DATED: January 31, 2019 /s/ Tanya Tambling

Attorney for Plaintiff

DATED: January 31, 2019 /s/ Erin W. Kendrella

Attorney for Defendant

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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IT IS SO ORDERED

 Judge Jon S. Tigar 

Dated: February 1, 2019

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