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Nature of Suit Code: 110
Nature of Suit: Insurance
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Insurance Contract

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SMRH:4864-5675-4645.1 

SCOTT P. DEVRIES, Cal. Bar No. 88221 RACHEL E. HUDGINS (admitted pro hac vice)

HUNTON ANDREWS KURTH LLP HUNTON ANDREWS KURTH LLP 

50 California Street, Suite 1700 Bank of America Plaza, Ste. 4100 

San Francisco, CA 94111 600 Peachtree Street, N.E. 

Telephone: 415.975.3700 Atlanta, GA 30308 

Facsimile: 415.975.3701 Telephone: 404.888.4000 

Email: SDeVries@hunton.com Facsimile: 404.888.4190 

Email: RHudgins@hunton.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs RLC INDUSTRIES CO. 

and ROSEBURG FOREST PRODUCTS CO. 

JEFFREY S. CROWE, Cal. Bar No. 216055 

SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP

650 Town Center Drive, 10th Floor 

Costa Mesa, California 92626 

Telephone: 714.513.5100 

Facsimile: 714.513.5130 

Email: jcrowe@sheppardmullin.com 

SCOTT SVESLOSKY, Cal. Bar No. 217660 

MARY E. GREGORY, Cal. Bar No. 210247 

SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP

333 South Hope Street, 43rd Floor 

Los Angeles, California 90071-1422 

Telephone: 213.620.1780 

Facsimile: 213.620.1398 

Email: mgregory@sheppardmullin.com 

Attorneys for Defendant 

LIBERTY INSURANCE CORPORATION 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, SACRAMENTO DIVISION

RLC INDUSTRIES CO. and ROSEBURG 

FOREST PRODUCTS CO., 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

LIBERTY INSURANCE CORPORATION, 

EVEREST NATIONAL INSURANCE 

COMPANY, and THE OHIO CASUALTY 

INSURANCE COMPANY, 

Defendants. 

Case No. 2:23-cv-00649-TLN-SCR

Assigned to the Hon. Troy L. Nunley and 

Magistrate Judge Deborah Barnes 

STIPULATION AND ORDER 

REGARDING 

EXPERT WITNESS DISCLOSURES

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TO THE HONORABLE COURT: 

Plaintiffs RLC Industries, Inc. and Roseburg Forest Products Co. (collectively 

“Roseburg”), and Defendant Liberty Insurance Corporation (“Liberty”) (collectively “the 

Parties”), by and through their attorneys of record, enter into the following stipulation for an Order 

clarifying the Court’s Pre-Trial Scheduling Order and/or allowing the parties to file their Expert 

Witness Disclosures without expert reports, which contain confidential and/or sensitive business 

information. Notwithstanding this Stipulation and/or the Court’s Order Thereon, the Parties have 

or will timely serve full and complete Expert Witness Disclosures accompanied by their respective 

expert reports. 

I. RECITALS.

WHEREAS: 

1. On April 7, 2023, the Court issued its Initial Pretrial Scheduling Order. (ECF 5). 

2. The Initial Pretrial Scheduling Order requires counsel to “designate in writing, file 

with the Court, and serve upon all other parties the name, address, and area of expertise of each 

expert that they propose to tender at trial not later than sixty (60) days after the close of discovery. 

The disclosure shall be accompanied by a written report prepared and signed by the witness. The 

report shall comply with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(a)(2).” (ECF 5 at 3 (emphasis 

added)). 

3. On December 19, 2024, the Court granted the Parties’ request to modify the Initial 

Pretrial Scheduling Order. (ECF 32). The Order continued the deadline for initial expert witness 

disclosures from March 22, 2024 to July 5, 2024. 

4. On June 28, 2024, the Court granted the Parties’ request to modify expert discovery 

deadlines. (ECF 66). The Order continued the deadline for initial expert witness disclosures from 

July 5, 2024 to August 2, 2024. 

5. Pursuant to the June 28, 2024 Order, the Parties will file (or have already filed) 

their initial expert disclosures containing the name, address, and area of expertise of each expert 

that they propose to tender at trial. The Parties will serve (or have already served) their initial 

expert disclosures accompanied by the written reports of their respective retained experts. 

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6. The Parties’ expert reports include or reference information one or both of the 

Parties have identified as confidential information subject to the Protective Order. (ECF 30). 

7. It is the Parties’ understanding that they do not need to file the expert reports with 

the disclosures. To the extent the Court’s Pre-Trial Scheduling Order requires the Parties to file 

their expert reports that accompany their respective initial expert disclosures, the Parties hereby 

stipulate and seek an Order from the Court that they need only file their initial expert disclosure 

statements, and not file their respective reports. Nonetheless, they have or will serve on each other 

full and complete initial disclosure statements accompanied by those expert reports. If the Court 

requires the Parties to file the expert reports with their initial expert witness disclosure statements, 

the Parties will separately move the Court for an Order sealing them. 

II. STIPULATION. 

Therefore, the Parties, by and through their counsel of record, hereby stipulate to an Order 

from the Court that the Parties only need to file their expert disclosures and not to file expert 

reports, so long as they serve full and complete copies of their expert disclosures with their 

respective retained expert reports. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

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Dated: August 5, 2024

HUNTON ANDREWS KURTH LLP

By s/ Scott P. DeVries

SCOTT P. DeVRIES 

RACHEL E. HUDGINS 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

RLC INDUSTRIES CO. and ROSEBURG FOREST 

PRODUCTS CO.

Dated: August 5, 2024

SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP

By s/ Mary E. Gregory

JEFFREY S. CROWE 

SCOTT SVESLOSKY 

MARY E. GREGORY 

Attorneys for Defendant 

LIBERTY INSURANCE CORPORATION 

 

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ORDER 

Having considered the Stipulation and for good cause shown, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, 

as follows: 

 Expert disclosures containing the name, address, and area of expertise of each 

expert that the Parties propose to tender at trial must be timely filed with the Court; 

and 

 Expert reports need not be filed by the Parties at this time, so long as the Parties 

serve full and complete initial expert witness disclosures accompanied by their 

respective expert reports. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: August 5, 2024 

Troy L. Nunley

United States District Judge

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