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Parties Involved:
Albert Hackett
Plaintiff
Dalanea Hackett
Plaintiff
United States of America
Defendant

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Stipulation to Modify Scheduling Order 1

BENJAMIN B. WAGNER

United States Attorney

KELLI L. TAYLOR

Assistant United States Attorney

501 I Street, Suite 10-100

Sacramento, CA 95814

Telephone: (916) 554-2741

Facsimile: (916) 554-2900

Attorneys for the United States of America

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ALBERT HACKETT and DALANEA

HACKETT,

Plaintiffs,

vs.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Defendants.

 

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No. 2:09-cv-00240 GEB JFM

STIPULATION TO MODIFY SCHEDULING

ORDER AND ORDER THEREON

Complaint Filed: January 27, 2009

Trial Date: November 9, 2010

COME NOW Plaintiff Albert Hackett and Defendant United States of America, by and through

their counsel of record, and hereby STIPULATE to modify the scheduling order to postpone the

exchange of expert disclosures from a mutual exchange on January 29, 2010, to a staggered exchange

wherein Plaintiff’s disclosure is due on February 19, 2010 and Defendant’s disclosure is due on March 5,

2010. All other dates in the scheduling order will remain unaffected.

This is the parties’ second requested postponement of expert disclosures. The first request was

after the parties completed the exchange of written discovery and sought to mediate this action to

determine if settlement could be reached prior to incurring the expense associated with lengthy party,

percipient witness, and treating physician depositions, which should be taken prior to the exchange of

expert disclosures in this case, given Plaintiff’s nearly million dollar administrative claim. The parties in

fact mediated this case on November 19, 2009, but were unable to reach a settlement. Settlement

discussions were hampered, in part, because of a significant unanswered question regarding Plaintiff’s

health. Plaintiff has requested an opportunity to further evaluate this issue with his primary care

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Stipulation to Modify Scheduling Order 2

physician and specialist before incurring further expert expenses and litigation costs and so the parties

can determine whether settlement can be reached. The United States is agreeable to a slight delay in the

expert exchange as specified herein, especially because it will not impact the other dates in the

scheduling order. Specifically, discovery will still cutoff on April 7, 2010, and the scheduled pretrial

motion deadline, pretrial conference and trial dates will remain unchanged. Thus, the only proposed

changes to the scheduling order are the dates of expert exchange and all other dates and requirements of

the order are unaffected.

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

DATED: January 7, 2010 LAW OFFICE OF DARRIN W. MERCIER

By: /s/ Darrin W. Mercier 

DARRIN W. MERCIER

Attorney for Plaintiffs

DATED: January 7, 2010 BENJAMIN B. WAGNER

United States Attorney

By: /s/ Kelli L. Taylor 

KELLI L. TAYLOR, Assistant U.S. Attorney

Attorneys for the United States

ORDER

Pursuant to the parties’ stipulation, and for good cause shown, the court hereby GRANTS

the request for a modification of the Scheduling Orders dated April 5, 2009 and September 18,

2009. Plaintiff’s expert disclosure shall now be due on February 19, 2010 and Defendant’s

expert disclosure shall be due on March 5, 2010. All other dates and conditions in the

scheduling order are unchanged.

IT IS SO ORDERED:

Dated: January 20, 2010

 

GARLAND E. BURRELL, JR.

United States District Judge

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