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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Other Contract

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Case No. C-03-0440 JCS

STIPULATION AND ORDER RE EXPERTS

LAW OFFICES

HAIGHT, BROWN &

BONESTEEL, L.L.P.

San Francisco

David W. Evans (Bar No. 79466)

Scott M. Bloom (Bar No. 183891)

HAIGHT, BROWN & BONESTEEL, L.L.P.

100 Bush Street, 27th Floor

San Francisco, California 94104-3967

Telephone: (415) 986-7700

Facsimile: (415) 986-6945

Attorneys for Plaintiff and Counterdefendants

STEEFEL, LEVITT & WEISS, A Professional 

Corporation

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

STEEFEL, LEVITT & WEISS, A Professional 

Corporation,

Plaintiff,

v.

ASTOR HOLDINGS, INC. f/k/a PROFILE 

RECORDS, INC; ROBOT WARS LLC; 

SMILE/ASTOR PLACE 

COMMUNICATIONS,

Defendants.

And Related Counterclaims and Cross-Actions.

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Case No. C-03-0440 JCS

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED]

ORDER EXTENDING EXPERT 

DISCOVERY CUTOFF AND DEADLINE 

FOR FILING PRETRIAL MOTIONS RE 

EXPERT WITNESSES

Hearing Type: FINAL PRETRIAL 

CONFERENCE

Date: July 15, 2005

Time: 1:30 p.m.

Ctrm: A, 15th Floor

Judge: Hon. Joseph C. Spero

Trial Date: August 1, 2005

All parties hereto, by and through their attorneys of record, stipulate as follows:

1. Under the existing Case Management and Pretrial Order, the parties have already 

served their expert witness disclosures and F.R.Civ.P. Rule 26 Reports; the close of expert 

discovery is June 17, 2005. Motions concerning the testimony or qualifications of experts are due 

to be filed by June 24, 2005, along with all other pretrial materials and the Joint Pretrial 

Conference Statement. The Final Pretrial Conference in this matter is July 15, 2005. Trial is 

scheduled to commence on August 1, 2005.

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Case No. C-03-0440 JCS

STIPULATION AND ORDER RE EXPERTS

LAW OFFICES

HAIGHT, BROWN &

BONESTEEL, L.L.P.

San Francisco

2. The Court conducted a hearing on May 6, 2005 concerning the motions for 

summary judgment filed by Steefel, Levitt & Weiss (“Steefel”) and by William Pascoe and Pascoe 

& Rafton (“Pascoe”). Although certain tentative rulings were announced, a formal Order has not 

yet been issued by the Court. Accordingly, the moving parties’ expert witness disclosures 

expressly reserved their rights to amend, modify or augment such disclosures, as necessary, 

depending upon the Court’s final Order in connection with the motions for summary judgment.

3. Following the May 6th hearing, the Court ordered the parties to participate in a 

further private mediation session before the Hon. Martin Quinn of JAMS in San Francisco. That 

further mediation is now scheduled on Monday, June 6, 2005 commencing at 1:00 p.m. at JAMS 

in San Francisco.

4. Counsel for the parties held their initial “Meet and Confer” session as to Pretrial 

Conference matters and related pretrial materials on May 25, 2005. Based upon counsel’s current 

understandings as to the schedules and availability of counsel and the parties’ experts for 

depositions, counsel agreed that in order to conduct the depositions of the parties’ experts in an 

efficient manner, after the pending mediation and in the same week, it would be necessary to 

extend the expert discovery cutoff from Friday, June 17, 2005 to at least Friday, July 8, 2005. 

This, in turn, would also require that the deadline for filing motions concerning the testimony or 

qualifications of expert witnesses be extended from June 24, 2005 to July 11, 2005. 

5. Accordingly, the parties so stipulate to such extensions and request that the Court 

approve their agreed-upon extensions of the expert discovery cutoff and the deadline to file 

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STIPULATION AND ORDER RE EXPERTS

LAW OFFICES

HAIGHT, BROWN &

BONESTEEL, L.L.P.

San Francisco

motions concerning the testimony or qualifications of expert witnesses to, respectively, July 8 and 

July 11, 2005.

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

Dated: June 8, 2005 HAIGHT, BROWN & BONESTEEL LLP

By: /s/

David W. Evans

Scott M. Bloom

Attorneys for Plaintiff and Counterdefendant

STEEFEL, LEVITT & WEISS, P.C.

Dated: 06/08/05 KING & KELLEHER LLP

By: /s/

Edward Vincent King, Jr.

Attorneys for Defendants, Counterclaimants 

and Counterdefendants ASTOR 

HOLDINGS, INC., ROBOT WARS LLC; 

SMILE/ASTOR PLACE 

COMMUNICATIONS and STEVEN 

PLOTNICKI

Dated: June7, 2005 ROECA HAAS HAGER LLP

By: /s/

Russell S. Roeca

Edward D. Haas

Attorneys for Counterdefendants and 

Counterclaimants 

WILLIAM R. PASCOE AND PASCOE & 

RAFTON

ORDER

Based upon the foregoing stipulation of the parties and good cause appearing therefore, the 

expert discovery cutoff is extended to July 8, 2005. Any motions concerning the testimony or 

qualifications of any expert witness shall be filed electronically and served not later than July 1, 

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STIPULATION AND ORDER RE EXPERTS

LAW OFFICES

HAIGHT, BROWN &

BONESTEEL, L.L.P.

San Francisco

2005; copies of any such motions shall also be delivered to the Court’s Chambers on July 1, 2005. 

The deadline for filing opposition papers to the expert motions is July 5, 2005. No reply briefs 

shall be permitted.

All other pretrial materials shall be filed as scheduled on or before June 24, 2005; all other 

pretrial deadlines shall remain unchanged.

 AS MODIFIED BY THE COURT, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: June 13, 2005

/s/ Joseph C. Spero 

Hon. Joseph C. Spero

United States Magistrate Judge

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