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Parties Involved:
Marcella Jackson
Plaintiff
Kaplan Higher Education Corporation
Defendant
Kaplan Higher Education, LLC
Defendant
Kaplan, Inc.
Defendant

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JOINT STIPULATION ORDER TO EXTEND DEADLINES RE: MEDICAL RECORDS

CHERYL D. ORR (SBN 143196)

PHILIPPE A. LEBEL (SBN 274032)

SABA S. SHATARA (SBN 294150)

DRINKER BIDDLE & REATH LLP

50 Fremont Street, 20th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94105-2235

Telephone: (415) 591-7500

Facsimile: (415) 591-7510

Attorneys for Defendants

Kaplan, Inc. and Kaplan Higher Education, LLC

SHELLEY G. BRYANT - #222925

AMANDA B. WHITTEN - #251160

BRYANT WHITTEN, LLP

8050 North Palm Avenue, Suite 210

Fresno, California 93711

(559) 494-4910 Telephone

(559) 421-0369 Facsimile

Attorneys for Plaintiff, MARCELLA JACKSON

UNITES STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MARCELLA JACKSON,

Plaintiff,

v.

KAPLAN HIGHER EDUCATION, LLC, a 

Delaware limited liability company, 

KAPLAN HIGHER EDUCATION 

CORPORATION, an unknown business 

entity, KAPLAN, INC., a Delaware 

corporation, and Does 1 through 20, 

inclusive,

Defendants.

Case No. 1:14-CV-00073-AWI-BAM

JOINT STIPULATION TO EXTEND 

DEADLINES RE: MEDICAL RECORDS; 

AND ORDER THEREON

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JOINT STIPULATION & ORDER TO EXTEND DEADLINES RE: MEDICAL RECORDS

Pursuant Rules 16 and 29 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, defendants KAPLAN, 

INC. and KAPLAN HIGHER EDUCATION, LLC (collectively, “Defendants”) and Plaintiff 

Marcella Jackson (“Plaintiff”), through their respective counsel, hereby jointly submit this 

stipulation for an order to (1) extend the deadline to file any motion or application related to 

Plaintiff’s medical records, from December 19, 2014, to January 1, 2015; and (2) permit 

Defendants to designate an expert related to Plaintiff’s medical records up to 21 days after

Defendants receive Plaintiff’s final medical records from all providers subpoenaed.

WHEREAS, on November 25, 2014, the Court issued an Order Regarding November 24, 

2014 Discovery Conference providing that Defendants were entitled to discovery regarding

Plaintiff’s mental and physical health records for the time period beginning November 1, 2011, 

through the present, from health care providers served with subpoenas;

WHEREAS, Defendants served the following health care providers with subpoenas: 

Kaiser Permanente; Community Behavioral Health Center; the Fresno County Department of 

Behavioral Health; and Roberta Samples, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC, Anderson Medical Associates;

WHEREAS, the Court’s order required the subpoenaed medical providers to produce

Plaintiff’s medical records on or before December 12, 2014, and extended the non-expert 

discovery deadline for the parties to file any motion or application regarding this discovery issue 

to no later than December 19, 2014;

WHEREAS, only one of Plaintiff’s health care providers produced responsive records by 

the December 12, 2014 deadline; and, as of December 17, 2014, Community Behavioral Health 

Center still has yet to provide any records, despite the Court’s order;

WHEREAS, while the remaining provider has represented that they will produce 

Plaintiff’s medical records by Friday, December 19, 2014, that is insufficient time for Defendants

to review the records and determine whether any motion needs to be filed to address any 

deficiencies (if any) or compel further related discovery;

WHEREAS, to allow adequate time to review the late produced records, the parties agree 

and request that the Court extend the deadline to file any motions or applications related to the 

medical records to January 1, 2015;

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JOINT STIPULATION & ORDER TO EXTEND DEADLINES RE: MEDICAL RECORDS

WHEREAS, since Defendants cannot reasonably determine whether they will need to 

designate a medical expert until they have received and reviewed Plaintiff’s medical records, the 

parties agree that Defendants may designate a medical expert related to Plaintiff’s medical 

records within 21 days of receipt of the final medical records;

WHEREAS, Defendants agree to promptly make any designated expert available for 

deposition;

NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED by the parties 

through their undersigned counsel of record that:

1. The deadline to file any motions related to the medical records outlined is 

extended to January 1, 2015.

2. Defendants may designate a medical expert related to Plaintiff’s medical records 

within 21 days of receipt of the final medical records.

Dated: December 19, 2014 DRINKER BIDDLE & REATH LLP

By: /s/ Philippe A. Lebel

Cheryl D. Orr

Philippe A. Lebel

Saba S. Shatara

Attorneys for Defendants

Kaplan, Inc. and

Kaplan Higher Education, LLC

Dated: December 23, 2014 BRYANT WHITTEN LLP

By: /s/ Amanda Witten

Amanda Whitten

Attorney for Plaintiff,

MARCELLA JACKSON

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JOINT STIPULATION & ORDER TO EXTEND DEADLINES RE: MEDICAL RECORDS

ORDER

GOOD CAUSE APPEARING, the Court hereby approves this Joint Stipulation to 

Extend Deadlines Re: Medical Records as set forth above.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: December 23, 2014 /s/ Barbara A. McAuliffe _

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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