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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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STIPULATION TO MODIFY THE INITIAL PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER; ORDER

SCOTT P. DEVRIES, Cal. Bar No. 88221 RACHEL E. HUDGINS (admitted pro hac vice)

HUNTON ANDREWS KURTH LLP HUNTON ANDREWS KURTH LLP 

50 California Street, Suite 1700 Bank of America Plaza, Ste. 4100 

San Francisco, CA 94111 600 Peachtree Street, N.E. 

Telephone: 415.975.3700 Atlanta, GA 30308 

Facsimile: 415.975.3701 Telephone: 404.888.4000 

Email: SDeVries@hunton.com Facsimile: 404.888.4190 

 Email: RHudgins@hunton.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs RLC INDUSTRIES CO. 

and ROSEBURG FOREST PRODUCTS CO. 

JEFFREY S. CROWE, Cal. Bar No. 216055 

SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP

650 Town Center Drive, 10th Floor 

Costa Mesa, California 92626 

Telephone: 714.513.5100 

Facsimile: 714.513.5130 

Email: jcrowe@sheppardmullin.com 

MARY E. GREGORY, Cal. Bar No. 210247 

SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP

333 South Hope Street, 43rd Floor 

Los Angeles, California 90071-1422 

Telephone: 213.620.1780 

Facsimile: 213.620.1398 

Email: mgregory@sheppardmullin.com 

Attorneys for Defendant LIBERTY 

INSURANCE CORPORATION 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, SACRAMENTO DIVISION

RLC INDUSTRIES CO. and ROSEBURG 

FOREST PRODUCTS CO., 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

LIBERTY INSURANCE 

CORPORATION, EVEREST NATIONAL 

INSURANCE COMPANY, and THE 

OHIO CASUALTY INSURANCE 

COMPANY, 

Defendants. 

 Case No. 2:23-cv-00649-TLN-DB 

Assigned to the Hon. Troy L. Nunley and 

Magistrate Judge Deborah Barnes 

JOINT STIPULATION AND ORDER 

TO MODIFY THE INITIAL 

PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER 

 

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STIPULATION TO MODIFY THE INITIAL PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER; ORDER

Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 16(b)(4), Plaintiffs RLC Industries, Inc. 

and Roseburg Forest Products Co. (collectively “Roseburg”), and Defendant Liberty 

Insurance Corporation (“Liberty”) (collectively “the Parties”), by and through their 

counsel, hereby stipulate to modify the Initial Pretrial Scheduling Order in this matter. 

I. RECITALS.

WHEREAS: 

1. On April 7, 2023, Roseburg filed its Complaint in this action against Liberty, 

The Ohio Casualty Insurance Company and Everest National Insurance Company. 

Roseburg asserts causes of action for breach of contract and breach of the covenant of 

good faith and fair dealing against Liberty. Roseburg alleges that Liberty failed to defend 

Roseburg against claims arising out of a fire in Weed, California, that originated on 

Roseburg’s premises. Roseburg further alleges that Liberty’s conduct was in bad faith. 

Liberty denies Roseburg’s claims. 

2. On May 26, 2023, Liberty filed its Answer to Roseburg’s Complaint. 

3. On April 7, 2023, the Court issued its Initial Pretrial Scheduling Order. 

(ECF 5.) 

4. On June 30, 2023, the Parties submitted their Joint Rule 26(f) Report and 

Discovery Plan (ECF 24), which includes the dates the Parties now seek to modify. 

5. On July 11, 2023, the Court issued a Minute Order advising the Parties to 

submit any request to modify the Court’s Initial Pretrial Scheduling Order through a 

Stipulation and Proposed Order for the Court’s consideration. (ECF 25.) 

6. On August 7, 2023, pursuant to Roseburg and defendant Ohio Casualty 

Insurance Company’s Stipulation, the Court dismissed Ohio Casualty with prejudice. 

(ECF 28.) In addition, Roseburg and defendant Everest National Insurance Company have 

reached a settlement in principle. Once the settlement is final, Roseburg and Everest will 

submit a stipulation to dismiss Everest. 

7. After the Parties submitted the Joint Rule 26(f) Report, they moved forward 

with written discovery, including Interrogatories, Requests for Admissions and Requests 

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for Production of Documents. 

8. In response to this discovery, Liberty and Roseburg have both produced 

documents. Liberty has produced over 38,000 pages of documents. Roseburg has 

produced in excess of 11,500 documents (not pages). 

9. The Parties have discussed a preliminary list of the witnesses who will need 

to be deposed after they have completed a comprehensive review of the voluminous 

documents produced in this matter. 

10. The Parties have agreed to participate in private mediation with the 

Honorable Ronald M. Sabraw (Ret.) of JAMS, which they are working to schedule. 

11. The Parties require additional time to complete pre-mediation, and if 

necessary, post-mediation discovery and depositions before the non-expert discovery 

cutoff, which is currently January 19, 2024. 

12. The Parties have been diligent in pursuing discovery, however, the volume 

of responsive information requires additional time to complete discovery if the Parties are 

unable to resolve the matter at mediation. As a result, the Parties will be unable to 

complete discovery by the present deadlines as ordered in the Initial Pretrial Scheduling 

Order. 

II. STIPULATION. 

Therefore, the Parties, by and through their counsel of record, hereby stipulate to an 

order from the Court modifying the Initial Pretrial Scheduling Order, as follows: 

Deadline Current Date Proposed Date 

Non-Expert Discovery 

Cutoff 

January 19, 2024 May 3, 2024 

Initial Expert Witness 

Disclosures Due 

March 22, 2024 July 5, 2024 

Rebuttal Expert Witness 

Disclosures Due 

April 19, 2024 August 2, 2024 

Expert Discovery Cutoff June 21, 2024 September 27, 2024 

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STIPULATION TO MODIFY THE INITIAL PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER; ORDER

Last Day to File Dispositive 

Motions 

July 18, 2024 October 31, 2024 

Supplemental Disclosures 

and Discovery Responses 

Due 

July 25, 2024 November 5, 2024 

Last Day to Hear 

Dispositive Motions 

August 22, 2024 December 5, 2024 

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

Dated: December 18, 2023 

 HUNTON ANDREWS KURTH LLP

 

By 

/s/ Rachel E. Hudgins 

(as authorized on Dec. 18, 2023) 

 SCOTT P. DeVRIES 

RACHEL E. HUDGINS 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

RLC INDUSTRIES CO. and ROSEBURG 

FOREST PRODUCTS CO. 

Dated: December 18, 2023 

 SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP

 

By /s/ Mary E. Gregory 

 JEFFREY S. CROWE 

MARY E. GREGORY 

Attorneys for Defendant 

LIBERTY INSURANCE CORPORATION 

 

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ORDER 

Having considered the Stipulation and for good cause shown, IT IS HEREBY 

ORDERED that the Initial Pretrial Scheduling Order in this case (ECF 5) be modified as 

follows: 

1. The non-expert discovery completion date shall be continued to May 3, 

2024. 

2. The deadline to disclose expert witnesses and produce expert reports shall be 

continued to July 5, 2024. 

3. The deadline to disclose rebuttal expert witness and produce rebuttal expert 

witness reports shall be continued to August 2, 2024. 

4. The expert discovery completion date shall be continued to September 27, 

2024. 

5. The deadline to file dispositive motions shall be continued to October 31, 

2024. 

6. The deadline to serve supplemental disclosures and discovery responses shall 

be continued to November 5, 2024. 

7. The last day to hear dispositive motions shall be continued to December 5, 

2024. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: December 19, 2023 

Troy L. Nunley

United States District Judge

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