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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 42:2000e Job Discrimination (Employment)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

LYNNE COATES, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

FARMERS GROUP, INC., et al.,

Defendants.

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MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE

The case management conference set for March 16, 2016, at 2:00 p.m. is hereby 

CONTINUED to June 8, 2016, at 2:00 p.m. The parties shall file their joint case management 

statement by June 1, 2016.

On March 9, 2016, the parties filed a joint case management statement with a proposed 

case schedule. ECF No. 117. The parties proposed a fact discovery cut-off of October 14, 2016

and anticipated the case being ready for trial by April 24, 2017. Id. at 12. 

On March 14, 2016, the Court proposed a case schedule and invited the parties to file any 

objections to the proposal. ECF No. 118. The Court’s proposed schedule adopted the parties’

proposed fact discovery cut-off of October 14, 2016, but proposed a trial date of July 10, 2017 to 

provide sufficient time for the parties to brief dispositive motions, the Court to rule on dispositive 

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motions, and the parties to comply with the Court’s pretrial conference filing deadlines. The 

Court also proposed April 20, 2017 as the hearing date for dispositive motions. 

On March 15, 2016, Defendants Farmers Group, Inc., Farmers Insurance Exchange, and 

Farmers Insurance Company, Inc. (collectively, “Defendants”) filed objections to the proposed 

schedule. ECF No. 119. Defendants asked the Court to extend the fact discovery deadline from 

October 14, 2016 to December 15, 2016. Defendants also extended the trial expert discovery 

dates and the dispositive motion briefing schedule. Plaintiffs Lynne Coates, Serena Neves, Karen 

Wasson, Keever Rhodes, and Celeste Stokes did not file any objections to the proposed case 

schedule. 

The Court adopts Defendants’ proposed fact and expert discovery extensions. However, 

the briefing schedule for dispositive motions remains as proposed by the Court. Accordingly, the 

Court adopts the following case schedule:

Scheduled Event Date

Opening Expert Reports June 2, 2016

Further Case Management Conference June 8, 2016, at 2:00 p.m.

Rebuttal Expert Reports June 30, 2016

Close of Expert Discovery July 21, 2016

Briefing Schedule on Motions for Class 

Certification and/or Decertification

Motion: July 21, 2016

Opposition: August 18, 2016

Reply: September 8, 2016

Hearing on Motion for Class Certification September 29, 2016, at 1:30 p.m.

Close of Fact Discovery December 15, 2016

Opening Trial Expert Reports January 9, 2017

Rebuttal Trial Expert Reports January 24, 2017

Close of Trial Expert Discovery January 27, 2017

Briefing Schedule on Dispositive Motions Motion: February 23, 2017

Opposition: March 16, 2017

Reply: March 30, 2017

Briefing Schedule on Daubert Motions Motion: March 9, 2017

Opposition: March 23, 2017

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Reply: March 30, 2017

Hearing on Dispositive and Daubert

Motions

April 20, 2017, at 1:30 p.m.

Final Pretrial Conference June 29, 2017, at 1:30 p.m.

Jury Trial July 10, 2017, at 9:00 a.m.

Length of Trial 9 days

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 15, 2016

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LUCY H. KOH

United States District Judge

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