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Parties Involved:
Merced Irrigation District
Defendant
Lamonte Tumbling
Plaintiff

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Daley & Heft, LLP

Attorneys at Law 

Neal S. Meyers, Esq. (SBN 109625)

Matthew T. Racine, Esq. (SBN 256865)

462 Stevens Avenue, Suite 201

Solana Beach, CA 92075

Telephone: (858) 755-5666

Facsimile: (858) 755-7870

Attorneys for Defendant, 

MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT

Lawrence D. Murray (SBN 77536)

MURRAY & ASSOCIATES

1781 Union Street

San Francisco, CA 94123

Tel: (415) 673-0555 

Fax: (415) 928-4084

Dean Gordon (SBN 61311) 

LAW OFFICES OF DEAN GORDON

1220 East Olive Avenue

Fresno, CA 93728

Tel: (559) 221-7777

Fax: (559) 221-5812 

ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF 

LAMONTE TUMBLING

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, FRESNO DIVISION

LAMONTE TUMBLING,

Plaintiff,

v.

MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT, a

public entity

Defendant.

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Case No. 1:08-CV-01801-LJO-DLB

JOINT STIPULATION FOR

EXTENSION OF EXPERT DISCOVERY

DEADLINE RE PLAINTIFF'S

TREATING PHYSICIANS

JUDGE: Lawrence J. O’Neill

COURTROOM: 9

MAGISTRATE: Dennis L. Beck

Merced Irrigation District (“Defendant”) and LaMonte Tumbling (“Plaintiff”), by and

through their respective attorneys of record, hereby stipulate to and request the Court enter a

scheduling order revising the amended scheduling order entered by this court on December 4,

2009. (Document 48).

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The parties stipulate to extending the deadline for expert discovery to permit Defendant

to depose the treating physicians identified by Plaintiff in his expert disclosures. (See Exhibit A.) 

The current deadline for expert discovery is May 14, 2010. In light of the fact that Defendant

moved to strike Plaintiff's designation of his treating physicians and that motion was not resolved

by the Court until its order of May 7, 2010 (Document 91), the parties agree that Defendant needs

additional time to schedule and take the depositions of Plaintiff's three treating physicians.

Therefore, the parties stipulate to extending the expert discovery deadline by thirty days

for the sole purpose of conducting discovery involving plaintiff's designated treating physicians

from the current deadline of May 14, 2010, to June 14, 2010. Although defendant hopes to

complete the depositions of these physicians prior to May 31, 2010, given the past struggles of the

parties to find dates on which counsel for both parties are available for deposition, the parties

believe that an extension of thirty days is more likely to allow successful scheduling of these

depositions.

Respectfully Submitted,

Dated: May 11, 2010 Daley & Heft, LLP

By: /s/ Neal S. Meyers, Esq. 

Neal S. Meyers

Matthew T. Racine

Attorneys for Defendant, 

Merced Irrigation District

Dated: May 11, 2010 Murray & Associates

 By: /s/ Lawrence D. Murray, Esq. 

Lawrence D. Murray

Attorneys for Plaintiff, 

LaMonte Tumbling

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ORDER ON STIPULATION FOR ORDER

HAVING READ AND CONSIDERED THE FOREGOING, and good cause appearing:

The foregoing is the order of the court.

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: May 12, 2010 /s/ Dennis L. Beck 

3b142a UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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