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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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STIPULATION AND DECLARATION; ORDER RE EXTENDING THE DISCOVERY DEADLINE 

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LARRY L. BAUMBACH 

State Bar No. 50086 

LAW OFFICES OF LARRY L. BAUMBACH 

686 Rio Lindo Avenue 

Chico, CA 95926 

Telephone: 530-891-6222 

Attorney for Plaintiff 

KATHY STONE 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

KATHY STONE, 

 

 Plaintiff, 

 vs. 

SEVERN TRENT SERVICES, INC.; 

DOES 1 through 100, 

 Defendants,

 Case No.: 2:14-cv-00689-JAM-DAD 

STIPULATION AND DECLARATION; 

ORDER RE EXTENDING THE 

DISCOVERY DEADLINE

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 IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by Plaintiff, KATHY STONE, by and through her 

attorney, and Defendant, SEVERN TRENT SERVICES, INC., by and through their 

attorneys, that the discovery cut-off date set forth in the Court’s September 18, 2014 

pretrial scheduling order be continued to February 29, 2016 in order to allow the parties 

sufficient time to complete depositions and written follow-up discovery in this matter. This 

stipulation is based upon the following facts which the parties submit show good cause to 

adjust the pretrial scheduling order: 

 1. That on September 18, 2014 the Court established a non-expert discovery 

cut-off date of January 15, 2016. 

 2. Since the initiation of this case the parties have engaged in extensive written 

discovery including exchanges of written interrogatories and requests for production of 

documents. Defendant has taken the deposition of Plaintiff. Due to scheduling conflicts 

and not being able to produce witnesses, the Plaintiff has taken no depositions. 

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 3. The Plaintiff is still trying to depose Defendant’s Person Most Knowledgeable 

and the parties anticipate needing to conduct additional discovery in order for the parties to 

gather all the available facts, evaluate the merits of the case; prepare dispositive motions; 

and to possibly explore resolution of this case. Plaintiff contends that the testimony of 

Defendant’s Person Most Knowledgeable is critical to this case and may reveal other 

possible witnesses who will need to be deposed. Follow up written discovery and 

subpoenas will also likely result from this deposition. 

 4. Based upon the foregoing, the parties submit that good cause exists to 

continue the discovery cutoff to February 29, 2016 because the above-described discovery 

is crucial to both parties’ preparation of their case and due to scheduling conflicts will not be 

completed by the current deadline. An amendment to the scheduling order will cause no 

prejudice to either party since both parties have agreed to the continuance; and because 

the adjustment of the discovery cutoff will not affect the other dates set by this Court and 

the trial date will not need to be continued. 

 5. That the parties agree that this stipulation is valid under Local Rule 143. 

 IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

Dated: Janurary 7, 2016 LAW OFFICES OF LARRY L. BAUMBACH 

 

 /S/ Larry L. Baumbach 

 By:_________________________________ 

 LARRY L. BAUMBACH 

 Attorney for Plaintiff 

Dated: January 8, 2016 LITTLER MENDELSON 

 /s/ Barbara A. Blackburn (authorized on 1/8/16) 

 By:_________________________________ 

 BARBARA A. BLACKBURN 

 Attorney for Defendants 

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DECLARATION OF LARRY L. BAUMBACH 

I, Larry L. Baumbach, do hereby declare and say the following: 

 1. I am the attorney of record for the Plaintiff in the above-entitled action. I have 

prepared this Declaration as evidence in support of the parties’ stipulation and request to 

this Court to continue the discovery cutoff date to February 29, 2016. The facts stated in 

the stipulation set forth above re true and correct and based upon my personal knowledge. 

 I declare under the penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America 

that the facts stated above in the stipulation of the parties are true and correct. This 

Declaration was executed on January 7, 2016 in Chico, California. 

 /S/ Larry L. Baumbach 

 _________________________ 

DECLARATION OF BARBARA A. BLACKBURN 

I, Barbara A. Blackburn, do hereby declare and say the following: 

 1. I am the attorney of record for the Defendants in the above-entitled action. I 

have prepared this Declaration as evidence in support of the parties’ stipulation and 

request to this Court to continue the discovery cutoff date to February 29, 2016. The facts 

stated in the stipulation set forth above re true and correct and based upon my personal 

knowledge. 

 I declare under the penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America 

that the facts stated above in the stipulation of the parties are true and correct. This 

Declaration was executed on January 8, 2016 in Sacramento, California. 

 /s/ Barbara A. Blackburn (authorized 

 on 1/8/16) 

 _________________________ 

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ORDER 

 Based upon the stipulation of the parties and good cause appearing, the Court 

orders that the discovery cutoff date is hereby changed to February 29, 2016. 

 IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: 1/8/2016 /s/ John A. Mendez_________________________ 

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE 

 

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