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Parties Involved:
Nalini Kumar
Plaintiff
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company
Defendant
Allen Singh
Plaintiff

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Case No. 2:23-cv-02312-DAD AC 

STIPULATION AND REQUEST TO MODIFY 

SCHEDULING ORDER TO CONTINUE EXPERT 

DISCOVERY CUTOFF; [PROPOSED] ORDER 

J. Edward Kerley (175695) 

Dylan L. Schaffer (153612) 

Kerley Schaffer LLP 

1939 Harrison Street, #900 

Oakland, California 94612 

Telephone: (510) 379-5801 

Facsimile: (510) 228-0350 

 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

NALINI KUMAR, an individual, ALLEN 

SINGH, an individual. 

 Plaintiffs, 

 v. 

NATIONWIDE MUTUAL INSURANCE 

COMPANY, a corporation and DOES 1-10, 

 Defendants.

Case No. 2:23-cv-02312-DAD AC 

STIPULATION AND REQUEST TO 

MODIFY SCHEDULING ORDER TO 

CONTINUE EXPERT DISCOVERY 

CUTOFF; [PROPOSED] ORDER 

 

 

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Case No. 2:23-cv-02312-DAD AC 2 STIPULATION AND REQUEST TO MODIFY 

SCHEDULING ORDER TO CONTINUE EXPERT 

DISCOVERY CUTOFF; [PROPOSED] ORDER 

Plaintiffs Nalini Kumar and Allen Singh (Plaintiffs) and Defendant Nationwide Mutual 

Insurance Company (Nationwide), stipulate to the following: 

RECITALS 

WHEREAS this is an insurance bad faith action involving a residential property that was 

damaged during a fire; 

WHEREAS Plaintiffs originally filed this action in the Northern District of California; 

WHEREAS on October 12, 2023, the case was transferred to the Eastern District of 

California; 

WHEREAS the parties had completed fact discovery before the transfer; 

WHEREAS on March 6, 2024, the parties appeared for a scheduling conference. 

WHEREAS on March 7, 2024, the Court issued its Scheduling Order (Dkt. No. 100) 

which, in part, set deadlines as follows: 

 Initial Expert Disclosure and Rule 26(a)(2) Report Production: August 30, 2024; 

 Expert Rebuttal Disclosure and Rule 26(a)(2) Report Production: September 30, 

2024; 

 Expert Discovery Cut-Off: October 30, 2024; 

 Final Pretrial Conference: March 10, 2025; 

 Trial: May 19, 2025. 

WHEREAS the parties filed cross-motions for summary judgment on May 8, 

2024, for hearing on June 18, 2024; 

 WHEREAS the Court vacated the hearing date and has the cross-motions under 

submission; 

 WHEREAS, pursuant to the Parties’ stipulation, the Court previously extended the expert 

discovery cutoff to November 30, 2024 (Dkt. 112); 

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Scheduling Order, the Parties may file a stipulation 

requesting an order extending time on a showing of good cause; 

WHEREAS, good cause exists to extend the expert discovery cutoff to January 31, 2025: 

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Case No. 2:23-cv-02312-DAD AC 3 STIPULATION AND REQUEST TO MODIFY 

SCHEDULING ORDER TO CONTINUE EXPERT 

DISCOVERY CUTOFF; [PROPOSED] ORDER 

 After experiencing some challenges in getting their retained experts properly 

prepared under the then-current timeframe, in light of the number of experts 

retained on each side, as well as the large quantity of documents and files to 

review in this matter, the Parties exchanged initial expert disclosures and will plan 

to exchange rebuttal expert disclosures according to the current deadline. 

 The Parties have indicated a desire to take the depositions of multiple experts on 

both sides. 

 There has been one prior request to extend the expert discovery cutoff, which was 

requested and granted before the Parties exchanged initial expert disclosures. 

 This request for modification of the expert discovery deadlines will not affect any 

other deadlines or events set in this matter, including but not limited to the expert 

rebuttal disclosure deadline, pretrial conference, trial date or any mandatory 

settlement conference. 

 Dispositive motions from both sides have been fully briefed and are currently 

pending before the Court; 

 Counsel for each side continue to be tied up on deadlines for other matters: 

o Plaintiffs’ counsel have two federal cases ongoing which have fact 

discovery cut-off dates in November and late December, trial briefing in a 

bench trial set for early January that is due in December, along with main 

briefing and replies in one state and one federal appeal in the same period. 

o Defense counsel are currently involved in (1) a matter with a November 

12, 2024 trial date in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of 

California, and (2) a matter in the Santa Clara County Superior Court with 

a January 13, 2025 trial date and discovery closing on December 16, 2023, 

and expert discovery to follow. 

o The Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, and counsel’s preplanned 

family engagements and travel during those times will also interfere with 

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Case No. 2:23-cv-02312-DAD AC 4 STIPULATION AND REQUEST TO MODIFY 

SCHEDULING ORDER TO CONTINUE EXPERT 

DISCOVERY CUTOFF; [PROPOSED] ORDER 

their attempts to prepare for and take expert depositions in an orderly 

fashion. 

THEREFORE, the Parties, by and through their respective counsel of record, agree and 

stipulate that the expert discovery cutoff in this matter be extended to January 31, 2025. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

Dated: October 25, 2024 KERLEY SCHAFFER, LLP 

 /s/ Dylan L. Schaffer (as authorized on 10/25/24) 

 DYLAN L. SCHAFFER 

Attorney for Plaintiffs 

Dated: October 25, 2024 DENTONS US LLP 

 /s/ Samuel D. Jubelirer 

 SAMUEL D. JUBELIRER 

Attorneys for Nationwide Mutual Insurance 

Company 

 

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Case No. 2:23-cv-02312-DAD AC 5 STIPULATION AND REQUEST TO MODIFY 

SCHEDULING ORDER TO CONTINUE EXPERT 

DISCOVERY CUTOFF; [PROPOSED] ORDER 

ORDER 

Good cause having been shown and based on this stipulation, IT IS HEREBY 

ORDERED that the expert discovery cutoff in this matter is continued to January 31, 2025. 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: November 1, 2024 

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