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Parties Involved:
Richard A. Eagleston
Plaintiff
The Paul Revere Life Insurance Company
Defendant
Unum Group
Defendant

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JOINT STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER TO CONTINUE MEDIATION DATE

Case No. CV 12-05633 RS

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FRANCIS TORRENCE (State Bar No. 154653)

WILSON, ELSER, MOSKOWITZ,

EDELMAN & DICKER LLP

525 Market Street, 17th Floor

San Francisco, California 94105

Telephone: (415) 433-0990

Facsimile: (415) 434-1370

Attorneys for Defendant

THE PAUL REVERE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

and UNUM GROUP

DAVID W. WESSEL (State Bar No. 115222)

LAW OFFICES OF BORIS E. EFRON

130 Portola Road

Portola Valley, California 94028

Telephone: (650) 851-8880

Facsimile: (650) 851-3001

Attorneys for Plaintiff

RICHARD A. EAGLESTON

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

RICHARD A. EAGLESTON, an individual,

Plaintiff,

v.

THE PAUL REVERE LIFE INSURANCE 

COMPANY, UNUM GROUP, and DOES 1 

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Defendants.

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Case No. CV 12-05633 WHO

STIPULATION AND ORDER TO 

CONTINUE MEDIATION DATE

Plaintiff Richard Eagleston (“Eagleston” or “Plaintiff”) and Defendant The Paul Revere 

Life Insurance Company (“Paul Revere” or “Defendant”), by and through their counsel of record, 

hereby respectfully submit this Stipulation and the accompanying Proposed Order to continue the 

mediation deadline in this matter. For reasons set forth below, the parties believe that good cause 

exists to allow the short additional extension of time. 

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This litigation arises from a dispute regarding disability insurance benefits. Plaintiff has 

brought claims for relief against the Defendant for breach of contract and bad faith. 

The parties previously requested the Court to continue the previously set Case 

Management Conference in order to conduct a mediation. The Court graciously granted that 

request, but alerted the parties that there would be no more extensions for the mediation, and 

instructed that the mediation be conducted by the next CMC, currently set for Januray 29, 2014. 

The parties had a mediation scheduled for January 8, 2014, but now respectfully request 

the Court to permit a very short extension, to February 19, 2014, the earliest date the mediator, 

Craig Needham, is available. The parties believe that good cause exists to do so. The parties 

respectfully make this request being aware of the Court’s prior instructions and comments about 

further extensions. 

The parties agree that the success of this mediation is best served by having plaintiff’s 

counsel present at the mediation, if possible, rather than having a different attorney appear for 

Plaintiff at the mediation. Plaintiff’s counsel is more familiar with both the facts of the case and 

the client. Defense counsel prefers that plaintiff’s counsel be the participant at the mediation, for 

the same reasons. 

However, plaintiff’s counsel and his wife have what is literally a once in a lifetime 

opportunity to visit their adult son in Africa during the month of January, a trip which will require 

Plaintiff’s counsel to miss the scheduled mediation for January 8. Plaintiff’s counsel leaves at the 

start of January and will be traveling to Africa to spend the month with his son who is a student at 

the University of Ghana, Legon, in Accra, Ghana. 

In light of the once in a lifetime nature of the cause for this request, the parties believe 

there is good cause to seek relief from the Court, and obtain a short extension. As indicated 

above, the earliest alternative date available is the proposed February 19, 2014 date, which has 

already been reserved. Counsel hope that such a brief extension would cause no inconvenience to 

the Court. 

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The parties hereby respectfully request that the Court modify its prior order and permit the 

parties to conduct the mediation on February 19, 2014, after plaintiff’s counsel has returned from 

Africa. 

WILSON, ELSER, MOSKOWITZ, EDELMAN & DICKER 

LLP

Dated: January 2, 2014 By__/s/ Francis Torrence__________________________

FRANCIS TORRENCE

Attorneys for Defendants

THE PAUL REVERE INSURANCE COMPANY and

UNUM GROUP

LAW OFFICES OF BORIS E. EFRON

Dated: January 2, 2014 By /s/ David W. Wessel 

DAVID W. WESSEL

Attorneys for Plaintiff

RICHARD A. EAGLESTON

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED as modified below:

The Case Management Conference set for January 28, 2014 is continued until March 4, 2014. 

The parties shall file a Joint Case Management Statement on or before February 26, 2014

which either notifies the Court of a settlement or proposes a trial and case schedule with a trial 

date in 2014, as one will be set at that time.

DATED: January 2, 2014

WILLIAM H. ORRICK 

UNITED STATED DISTRICT JUDGE

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