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Parties Involved:
Alexandre Robert Kobi
Plaintiff
Claudine Yvette Kobi
Plaintiff
United States of America
Defendant

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WALKUP, MELODIA, KELLY & SCHOENBERGER

MATTHEW D. DAVIS (State Bar #141986)

mdavis@walkuplawoffice.com

JUSTIN CHOU (State Bar #279137)

jchou@walkuplawoffice.com

650 California Street, 26th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94108-2615

Phone: (415) 981-7210 Fax: (415) 391-6965

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

CLAUDINE YVETTE KOBI

ALEXANDRE ROBERT KOBI

PHILLIP A. TALBERT

Acting United States Attorney

JOSEPH B. FRUEH

Assistant United States Attorney

501 I Street, Suite 10-100

Sacramento, CA 95814

Telephone: (916) 554-2702

Facsimile: (916) 554-2900

Attorneys for Defendant

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CLAUDINE YVETTE KOBI, et vir,

 Plaintiffs,

 v.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

 Defendant.

Case No. 1:15-cv-00478-DAD-BAM

STIPULATION TO MODIFY SCHEDULING 

ORDER

STIPULATION TO MODIFY SCHEDULING ORDER

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between Plaintiffs Claudine Yvette Kobi and Alexandre 

Robert Kobi and Defendant United States of America, through their undersigned counsel and subject to 

Court approval, that the Scheduling Order in the above-captioned case (see ECF Nos. 13, 16, 19) be 

modified as follows:

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1. All fact discovery, with the exception of the depositions of Plaintiffs Claudine Yvette 

Kobi and Alexandre Robert Kobi and any examination pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 35 

(to the extent such examinations may be deemed “fact discovery”) shall be completed no later than 

September 20, 2016.

2. Defendant shall file a motion for summary judgment no later than September 20, 2016.

3. The depositions of Plaintiff Claudine Yvette Kobi and Alexandre Robert Kobi and any 

examination conducted pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 35 shall be completed no later than

November 22, 2016.

4. The deadline for serving initial expert disclosures shall be January 23, 2017.

5. The deadline for serving rebuttal expert disclosures shall be April 24, 2017.

6. The date of the settlement conference, May 2, 2016, shall remain unchanged.

7. The date of the pretrial conference, July 17, 2017, shall remain unchanged.

8. The date of the trial, September 12, 2017, shall remain unchanged.

The reasons for this Stipulation are as follows:

A. Plaintiffs Claudine and Alexandre Kobi are married persons who are citizens and 

residents of Novalles, Switzerland. They filed this action on March 26, 2015, alleging claims of 

negligence and loss of consortium against the United States pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act, 

8 U.S.C. §§ 1346(b), 2671–80. Their claims arise from the injuries that Ms. Kobi sustained when she 

was struck by an 85-foot tree limb at Yosemite National Park in May 2013.

B. The parties are nearing completion of fact discovery related to liability and believe that a 

motion for summary judgment should be filed no later than September 20, 2016, to further the just, 

expedient, and cost-effective resolution of this action.

C. Ms. Kobi’s injuries and the ensuing economic and non-economic damages alleged 

require not only the expertise of medical and other retained professionals, but also the collection, review, 

and analysis of voluminous records maintained in Switzerland. Such records are predominantly written 

in the French language, and some records are in German.

D. In addition, the Kobis currently reside in Switzerland and speak only French, and

according to their counsel, Ms. Kobi is unable to travel to the United States for deposition or a Rule 35 

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medical examination because of her current medical conditions.

E. In light of the foregoing, the parties believe that the Scheduling Order in this case should 

be modified to provide additional time for (1) the taking of Plaintiffs’ depositions and any Rule 35 

examination, either by way of international travel to Switzerland or other acceptable and mutually 

agreeable means; and (2) the preparation and exchange of expert reports.

F. This scheduling modification will not affect the dates established for the pretrial 

conference or trial in this matter.

G. The parties have not previously sought modification of the Scheduling Order.

Dated: August 11, 2016 WALKUP, MELODIA, KELLY & SCHOENBERGER

By: /s/ Matthew D. Davis

MATTHEW D. DAVIS

JUSTIN CHOU

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

Dated: August 11, 2016 PHILLIP A. TALBERT

Acting United States Attorney

By: /s/ Joseph B. Frueh

JOSEPH B. FRUEH

Assistant United States Attorney

Attorneys for Defendant

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

ORDER

For the reasons set forth above, the Court adopts the parties’ proposed schedule.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 12, 2016 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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