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Parties Involved:
Farmers Insurance Exchange
Defendant
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Plaintiff

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

U.S. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT 

OPPORTUNITY COMMISION, 

Plaintiff,

v.

FAMERS INSURANCE EXCHANGE, AND 

DOES 1-10, INCLUSIVE,

Defendants.

_____________________________________/

Case No. 1:13-cv-01574-AWI-SKO

THIRD JOINT STIPULATION AND 

ORDER TO EXTEND DISCOVERY AND 

TRIAL DEADLINES 

Plaintiff United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC” or 

“Plaintiff”) and Defendant Farmers Insurance Exchange (“Farmers” or “Defendant”), through 

their respective counsel of record, hereby respectfully request a continuance of the Scheduling 

Order and accompanying deadlines. 

On September 30, 2013, the EEOC filed the instant action pursuant to Title VII of the Civil 

Rights Act of 1964 and Title I of the Civil Rights Act of 1991. Defendant filed a motion to 

dismiss the action on January 28, 2014, EEOC filed an opposition on February 24, 2014, and 

Defendant filed a reply on March 3, 2014. On March 4, 2014, the Court took the matter under 

Anna Y. Park, SBN 164242

Sue Noh, SBN 192134

Rumduol Vuong, SBN 264392

Jennifer L. Boulton, SBN 259076

U.S. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT

OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION

255 East Temple Street, Fourth Floor

Los Angeles, CA 90012

Telephone: (213) 894 1108

Facsimile: (213) 894-1301

Attorneys for Plaintiff U.S. EEOC

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submission. The Court issued a ruling on the matter on May 30, 2014, denying Defendant’s 

motion to dismiss. 

Defendant filed an Answer to the Complaint on June 13, 2014, and an initial scheduling 

order was issued by the Court in this matter on July 11, 2014. 

In the intervening time since, the parties submitted two stipulations to extend time with the 

most recent occurring on June 2, 2015. In the joint stipulation, the parties anticipated that an in 

person meeting or mediation would occur in June 2015. As a result of scheduling conflicts and 

other matters, the in person meeting or mediation did not occur until July 31 2015. Accordingly, 

the parties now stipulate pursuant to Rules 16 and 26 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure as 

follows:

1. Good Cause To Extend Discovery Deadlines

The parties come before the Court to seek a third extension of the discovery and trial 

deadlines. The parties anticipate that this will be the final request for an extension of these 

deadlines. The parties seek the current extension, which extends most of the current deadlines by 

approximately three (3) months, to permit the parties to continue to pursue settlement discussions. 

While no settlement has been reached, the parties have made progress on this matter, conducting 

an in person meeting on July 31, 2015, following the initial settlement conference with this court, 

and are planning now to progress further settlement discussions at a private mediation to take 

place before the Honorable Margaret A. Nagle (Ret.) in November or December 2015. The 

requested extension will permit both sides to focus on these settlement discussions without 

diverting resources and attention to litigation matters. 

Due to the above-noted reasons as well as other cases and commitments, it has proven 

difficult to complete the necessary depositions and written discovery prior to the discovery 

deadline contained in the current scheduling order. As such, the parties request that the Court, for 

good cause, grant the parties’ third request for an extension of time.

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2. Proposed New Schedule

The parties stipulate that the Joint Scheduling Order be amended to reflect the following 

new deadlines:

a. Non-expert discovery shall be completed by April 4, 2016;

b. Expert disclosure shall be completed by May 4, 2016;

c. Supplemental expert disclosure shall be completed by June 6, 2016;

d. Expert discovery shall be completed by July 15, 2016;

e. Non-dispositive motions shall be submitted by July 15, 2016;

f. Non-dispositive motions shall be heard no later than August 17, 2016;

g. Dispositive motion shall be submitted by July 26, 2016;

h. Dispositive motion shall be heard no later than September 2, 2016;

i. Pretrial conference shall be held on November 2, 2016; and

j. Trial shall begin December 6, 2016.

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

U.S. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT

OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION

Date: October 15, 2015 By: /s/ Jennifer L. Boulton ____

Jennifer L. Boulton

Attorney for Plaintiff U.S. EEOC

SEYFARTH SHAW

Date: October 15, 2015 By: /s/ Laura Maechtlen_____ _ 

Laura Maechtlen

Attorney for Defendant Farmers Insurance 

Exchange

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ORDER

For good cause shown, the parties’ joint stipulation to extend discovery deadlines 

(Doc. 35) is hereby approved and the new deadlines for discovery set forth in the Scheduling 

Order shall be amended as follows:

1. Non-expert discovery shall be completed by March 18, 2016;

2. Expert disclosure shall be completed by April 15, 2016;

3. Supplemental expert disclosure shall be completed by May 13, 2016;

4. Expert discovery shall be completed by June 27, 2016;

5. Non dispositive motions shall be filed by June 26, 2016, and heard by July 27, 2016;

6. Dispositive motions shall be filed by July 18, 2016, and heard by August 29, 2016;

7. The Pretrial conference shall be held on October 13, 2106, at 10:00 a.m., in 

Courtroom 2; and

8. Trial shall commence on December 6, 2016, at 8:30 a.m., in Courtroom 2.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: October 16, 2015 /s/ Sheila K. Oberto 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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