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Nature of Suit Code: 791
Nature of Suit: Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Cause of Action: 29:1001 E.R.I.S.A.: Employee Retirement

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

HEAVENLY HANA LLC, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

HOTEL UNION & HOTEL INDUSTRY OF 

HAWAII PENSION PLAN,

Defendant.

Case No. 14-cv-03743-JCS 

ORDER DENYING REQUEST FOR 

ADDITIONAL BRIEFING AND 

EVIDENCE

Re: Dkt. No. 107

The parties in this case waived their rights to present live testimony and stipulated to 

resolution of the case through a trial on the papers. The Court set a briefing schedule calling for 

opening briefs to be filed no later than October 21, 2015 and response briefs to be filed no later 

than November 18, 2015. Both parties filed briefs in accordance with that schedule. A hearing is 

set for February 8, 2016.

Plaintiffs and Counter-Defendants Heavenly Hana LLC, et al., notified the Court on 

January 25, 2016 that they “intend to provide legal authority including facts relating to matters 

raised in the reply memoranda at the oral argument,” and offered to file such “legal authority and 

factual matter” by February 1, 2016. See Joint Letter (dkt. 107). Defendant and Counter-Claimant 

Hotel Union & Hotel Industry of Hawaii Pension Plan objects. Id.

Briefing is closed in this case. To the extent that Plaintiffs request leave to submit a 

supplemental brief, that request is DENIED. Accordingly, based on the format that the parties 

selected to resolve the case, the evidentiary record is also closed. No party may present 

evidence—before, at, or after oral argument—that was not included with the opening or response 

briefs already filed. See Case Management & Pretrial Order (dkt. 58) ¶ II(A)(6) (setting deadlines 

for filing opening and reply trial materials and ordering that “[e]vidence and objections that are 

not included in the filed Trial Materials will not be considered by the Court”).

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At the hearing, the parties may present any legal argument that supports or responds to 

arguments raised in the briefs, including argument based on legal authority (as opposed to 

evidence of facts) not cited in the briefs. Any party that believes crucial legal authorities have not 

been cited in the briefs may file a list of no more than five such cases or other authorities no later 

than February 1, 2016. Such a list may include pin citations to specific pages or parts, but may not 

include any argument, explanation, or description whatsoever. The parties are encouraged to 

refrain from exercising this option unless they believe that additional legal authority is necessary 

to the Court’s understanding of the arguments they intend to make at the hearing.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 25, 2016

______________________________________

JOSEPH C. SPERO

Chief Magistrate Judge

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