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Nature of Suit Code: 110
Nature of Suit: Insurance
Cause of Action: 29:1002 E.R.I.S.A.: Employee Retirement

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36033200v2 0969145

HINSHAW & CULBERTSON LLP

633 West 5th Street, 47th Floor

Los Angeles, CA 90071-2043

213-680-2800

Gail E. Cohen (SBN 93210)

gcohen@mail.hinshawlaw.com

Robert E. Hess (SBN 178042)

rhess@mail.hinshawlaw.com

HINSHAW & CULBERTSON LLP

633 West 5th Street, 47th Floor

Los Angeles, CA 90071-2043

Telephone: 213-680-2800

Facsimile: 213-614-7399

Attorneys for Defendant 

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

WALTER SIMS, 

Plaintiff,

vs.

METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE 

COMPANY, and DOES 1 to 100,

Defendants.

Case No. 2:14-CV-02789-TLN-EFB

Honorable Troy L. Nunley

ORDER GRANTING STIPULATION 

AND REQUEST TO CONTINUE 

ERISA TRIAL AND RELATED 

DATES

[Stipulation and Declaration of Gail 

E. Cohen, Esq. submitted 

concurrently]

Complaint Filed: December 1, 2014

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ORDER

Having reviewed the Stipulation of Plaintiff Walter Sims and Defendant Metropolitan Life 

Insurance Company regarding their request for continuance of the ERISA trial date and related 

briefing deadlines to facilitate settlement and further mediation, following the award determination

from Plaintiff's Social Security Disability Income benefits appeal hearing on October 7, 2015, and 

for good cause shown, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the parties' 

Opening Briefs shall be filed by February 16, 2016.

Responsive Briefs shall be filed by March 16, 2016.

 Trial Date (1/2 Day Bench Trial) set for April 15, 2016, at 9:00 a.m.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: September 25, 2015

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