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Parties Involved:
AmGuard Insurance Company
Defendant
Dan Carlton
Plaintiff

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AMENDED STIPULATION AND ORDER TO EXTEND DISCOVERY, PRETRIAL DATES AND TRIAL 

DATE [Third Request]

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John H. Podesta (State Bar No. 154706)

John.podesta@wilsonelser.com

Linda B. Oliver (State Bar No. 166720)

Linda.oliver@wilsonelser.com

WILSON, ELSER, MOSKOWITZ,

EDELMAN & DICKER LLP

655 Montgomery Street, Suite 900

San Francisco, CA 94111

Telephone: 415.433.0990

Facsimile: 415.434.1370

Attorneys for Defendant

AMGUARD INSURANCE COMPANY

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DAN CARLTON, an individual,

Plaintiff,

v.

AMGUARD INSURANCE COMPANY, a 

foreign corporation; and

DOES 1 to 100, inclusive,

Defendants.

Case No. 2:22-cv-02030-WBS-DB

AMENDED STIPULATION AND ORDER TO 

EXTEND DISCOVERY, PRETRIAL DATES

AND TRIAL DATE SET IN STATUS 

(PRETRIAL SCHEDULING) ORDER

THIRD REQUEST FOR EXTENSION

Plaintiff Dan Carlton (“Plaintiff”) and Defendant Amguard 

Insurance Company (“Defendant”) by and through their respective 

counsel, hereby stipulate and request the Court to approve their 

agreement for an extension of the discovery, other pretrial 

deadlines and trial date as follows by approximately 60 days:

1. On August 3, 2023, the Court issued an order extending 

Pretrial Scheduling Dates. (Dkt 10) 

2. On October 30, 2023, the Court issued a second order 

extending Pretrial Scheduling Dates. (Dkt 12)

3. Since the second order, the parties have continued to 

exchange written discovery, and on December 12, 2023 and 

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December 13, 2023, Plaintiff took depositions of two Defendant 

employees and one Defendant former employee in Wilkes Barre, 

Pennsylvania. During those depositions, counsel for the parties 

discovered that additional documents in Defendants’ possession 

may be relevant to the case and the witnesses’ testimony, 

necessitating that Plaintiff resume the depositions at a later 

date after the documents are produced. Counsel for the parties

also learned that some of the documents may contain information 

identifying other Defendant employees and former employees that 

appear likely to have knowledge of Defendant’s claims handling 

activities that were not disclosed in Defendant’s initial 

disclosures, and Plaintiff may need to depose these additional 

witnesses to properly prepare the case for trial.

4. The parties mediated this matter unsuccessfully on 

October 2, 2023. A major impediment to settlement was the 

parties’ differing views regarding Defendant’s obligation to 

provide coverage under its homeowner’s policy for Plaintiff’s 

personal property loss. In light of the expense necessary to 

resume the depositions commenced in Pennsylvania, the parties 

believe it would be cost-effective for Defendant to move for 

summary judgment and/or summary adjudication of the breach of 

contract cause of action before discovery of the bad faith 

claims handling issues is completed. If Defendant prevails, 

there will be no need to resume the depositions; if Defendant 

does not prevail, the parties believe the matter will be ripe 

for a return to mediation.

4. Good cause therefore exists for the parties’ request 

because it makes practical sense to test the coverage issue and 

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engage in further mediation before incurring the additional 

expense of resumed depositions in Pennsylvania. The parties 

thus jointly request that the Court extend the current deadlines 

for completing factual discovery and disclosing experts 12 

months to allow the Court sufficient time to rule on Defendant’s 

dispositive motion, which Defendant proposes to file on or 

before March 1, 2024, and that the Court schedule new pretrial 

conference and trial dates to reasonably follow a new close of 

factual discovery:

Deadline Current Date Proposed New Date

Expert disclosures due February 1, 2024 January 31, 2025

Rebuttal expert disclosures February 15, 2024 February 14, 2025

Close of factual discovery March 18, 2024 March 17, 2025

Last day to file motions May 13, 2024 March 1, 2024

Final Pretrial Conference July 29, 2024, 

1:30 p.m.

April 21, 2025, 

1:30 p.m. 

Trial Date Sept 24, 2024, 9 

a.m.

June 23, 2025, 

9 a.m.

5. As the dates for Trial will impact the court, the 

parties request a new date for the pretrial conference in April 

2025 and the Trial Date in June 2025.

6. Accordingly, the parties stipulate and respectfully 

request that the Court extend the deadlines as proposed, or 

alternative dates convenient for the Court.

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AMENDED STIPULATION AND ORDER TO EXTEND DISCOVERY, PRETRIAL DATES AND TRIAL 

DATE [Third Request]

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Dated: January 3, 2024 WILSON, ELSER, MOSKOWITZ,

EDELMAN & DICKER LLP

 

By:

JOHN H. PODESTA

Attorneys for Defendant

AMGUARD INSURANCE COMPANY

Dated: January 3, 2024

MURPHY AUSTIN ADAMS SCHOENFELD LLP

 

 

By 

ALEXANDER F. STUART

Attorneys for Plaintiff

DAN CARLTON

ORDER

After considering the stipulation, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED 

THAT:

1. For good cause shown, the stipulation is granted;

2. The discovery, motion, pretrial and trial dates are 

continued as follows:

Expert disclosures due: January 31, 2025

Rebuttal expert disclosures due: February 14, 2025

Close of factual discovery: March 17, 2025

Last day for filing motions: March 1, 2024

Final Pretrial Conference: April 21, 2025, 1:30 p.m.

Trial date: June 24, 2025, 9:00 a.m.

Dated: January 4, 2024

/s/ Alexander F. Stuart

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