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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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Bosch Stipulation re Pretrial Filing

STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER RE 15-DAY EXTENSION OF DEADLINE FOR FILING PRETRIAL 

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ROBERT S. AARON (SBN 138903) 

TIMOTHY C. WILSON (SBN 173928) 

AARON & WILSON, LLP 

33 New Montgomery Street, Sixth Floor 

San Francisco, California 94105 

Telephone: (415) 537-0700 

Facsimile: (415) 537-0070 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

JAMES BOSCH 

DAVID B. DEMO (SBN 153997) 

LHB PACIFIC LAW PARTNERS, LLP 

5858 Horton Street, Suite 370 

Emeryville, CA 94608 

Telephone: (510) 841-7777 

Facsimile: (510) 847-7776 

Attorneys for Defendant 

FIRST FINANCIAL INSURANCE 

COMPANY 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

JAMES BOSCH, 

 Plaintiff, 

 v. 

FIRST FINANCIAL INSURANCE 

COMPANY, and DOES 1 through 100, 

 Defendants. 

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Case No. C04-3837 SBA 

STIPULATION AND MODIFIED 

PROPOSED ORDER RE 15-DAY 

EXTENSION OF DEADLINE FOR FILING 

PRETRIAL MATERIALS 

Date: April 27, 2006 

Ctrm: 3 

The Honorable Saundra Brown Armstrong 

Trial: June 5, 2006 

 The parties hereto, by and through their respective counsel of record, hereby 

submit this joint stipulated ex parte request for relief. 

 At the outset, the parties wish to express that this request is not made lightly, as 

the parties are keenly mindful of the court’s sentiments expressed in its last order dated 

April 5, 2006. By neither this request, nor any others, do they intend to portray any 

attitude of disregard for the Court’s explicit directives or to attempt any circumvention of 

the Court’s pretrial orders in any way. On the contrary, the parties respect the current 

schedule established by the court and intend to continue honoring it. 

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A. The Status Quo

 The parties have filed cross motions on the underlying insurance coverage issue 

which forms the basis for this insurance breach of contract and insurance bad faith 

action. Defendant’s motion for summary judgment, and plaintiff’s motion for partial 

summary judgment based on those issues, both are pending before the court and 

scheduled to be heard on May 2, 2006. 

 Pursuant to the “Order for Pretrial Preparation” designated Document 25 and 

filed on April 29, 2005, a number of pretrial materials are due to be served, filed and/or 

lodged with the court on the same day as the court is to consider the dispositive 

motions - May 2, 2005. (Order for Pretrial Preparation at 2:23-4:20.) 

 These required materials are due in advance of the Pretrial Conference set for 

May 24, 2006. 

 The parties are scheduled to attend a mandatory settlement conference before 

Magistrate Judge Spero on May 15, 2006. 

B. Relief Requested

 By this application, the parties respectfully request a 15-day week extension, or 

up to and including May 17, 2006, within which to file the pretrial materials. The 

proposed new deadline would still fall on a date that is one week before the pretrial 

conference with the court and nearly three weeks before trial. 

Regardless of the date on which the pretrial materials are to be submitted, the 

parties will be fully prepared for the May 24 pretrial conference as well as the trial that is 

set for June 5, 2006. The parties are not requesting a commensurate continuance of 

either the trial date or the pretrial conference. 

C. Grounds for Request 

1. Dispositive Cross Motions Are Still Pending 

This request is made on the grounds that the parties would be unable to provide 

the court with accurate, complete or meaningful joint pretrial materials because of the 

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pendency of the cross-motions for summary judgment. The court is scheduled to hear 

the cross-motions for summary judgment on May, 2, 2006, after which, depending on 

how the court rules, only then will the parties will be able to provide an accurate and 

meaningful Joint Pretrial Statement and other materials forthwith. For example, if the 

court grants either motion in whole, the issue of trial may be moot entirely, as would be 

the need for any pretrial materials. On the other hand, if the court grants either motion 

in part, matters of proof, and consequently, the need for witnesses, documents and 

exhibits, may be substantially altered from the current status quo, rendering 

meaningless any pretrial materials premised upon the current status quo. 

2. Discovery Will Still Be Open After May 2 

 Pursuant to the court’s previous order designated Document 42 and filed on April 

6, 2006, discovery as to damages is still open and allowed to continue until May 5, 

2006, some three days after the current deadline for pretrial materials. Depositions 

currently are set from May 2, 2006 to May 5, 2006. These depositions, and pending 

written discovery responses between the parties, will not be completed and available for 

consideration to enable the parties to narrow the issues or at least clarify the disputed 

issues. 

3. Pretrial Materials Would be Incomplete and Not Helpful 

 Until the court rules on the issues raised in the pending motions, the pretrial 

materials that the parties would submit, absent a continuance as requested, certainly 

would be incomplete and likely to be of limited help, either to the court or to the parties. 

That is because the following issues will be shaped substantially by the court’s ruling: 

(a) the identification of the facts, if any, which the court finds to be material to the legal 

insurance coverage issues, (b) whether any of those factual issues need to be decided 

by a jury at trial and, if so, the identity of the witnesses that will be necessary at trial, (c) 

what points of law the court finds might turn on determination of those factual issues, (d) 

whether the parties therefore should submit proposed jury voir dire, jury instructions and 

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jury verdict forms, and if so what those materials should contain, (e) which discovery 

excepts likely would be relevant at trial, and (f) the evidence that would be relevant at 

trial as to the above issues still pending for possible determination by the court. 

 Wherefore, the parties respectfully make this very narrow and limited request 

that the court extend the deadline to file the required pretrial materials to May 17, 2006. 

Dated: April 27, 2006 AARON & WILSON, LLP 

 By ________________________________

 TIMOTHY C. WILSON 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

JAMES BOSCH

Dated: April 27, 2006 LHB PACIFIC LAW PARTNERS, LLP 

 By ________________________________

 DAVID B. DEMO 

Attorneys for Defendant 

FIRST FINANCIAL INSURANCE 

COMPANY 

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Having read and considered the “Stipulation And Proposed Order Re 15-Day 

Extension Of Deadline For Filing Pretrial Materials,” and good cause appearing therefor, 

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the parties’ request is hereby granted as follows: 

(1) The May 2, 2006 deadline for the parties to serve, file and/or 

lodge all required pretrial materials other than motions in 

limine and objections to evidence (as provided in the court’s 

“Order for Pretrial Preparation” dated April 29, 2005) is 

hereby extended from May 2, 2006 to May 16, 2006 at 12:00 

p.m. (noon); 

(2) All motions in limine and objections to evidence shall be filed 

no later than May 11, 2006. All responses to motions in 

limine or objections to evidence shall be filed no later than 

12:00 p.m. (noon) on May 16, 2006. 

Except as expressly set forth herein, this Order does not alter any of the 

other deadlines set forth in the Order for Pretrial Preparation. 

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED THAT the parties shall also submit courtesy 

copies of the aforementioned documents to chambers no later than 12:00 p.m. 

(noon) on May 16, 2006. 

 IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: April 27, 2006 ____________________________________ 

 SAUNDRA BROWN ARMSTRONG 

 United States District Judge 

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