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

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STIPULATION AND REQUEST TO MODIFY SCHEDULING ORDER TO CONTINUE 

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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 

DEADLINES ONLY BY THIRTY DAYS; 

[PROPOSED] ORDER 

 

 

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STIPULATION AND REQUEST TO MODIFY SCHEDULING ORDER TO CONTINUE 

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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 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 each of the expert deadlines by thirty (30) days: 

 Both sides have experienced some challenges in getting their retained experts 

properly prepared under the current timeframe, especially in light of the number 

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

files to review in this matter. 

 There have been no prior requests for extensions to any of these deadlines. 

 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 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 are also currently tied up on deadlines for other matters: 

o Plaintiffs’ counsel have two separate insurance appraisals set in the next 

thirty days, two federal cases with fact discovery cut-off in the next two 

months, and two appeals pending briefing in the next two months. 

o Defense counsel are currently involved in (1) a matter with an October 15, 

2024 trial date and currently in the pretrial motion stage, (2) another 

matter with summary judgment motions due at the beginning of 

September and with a December trial date, and (3) another state court case 

with an October 14, 2024 trial date in which there are many depositions 

set pre-close of discovery. 

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

stipulate that the expert discovery deadlines in this matter be extended by thirty (30) days as 

follows: 

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

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

 Expert Discovery Cut-Off: November 29, 2024; 

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

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Dated: August 21, 2024 KERLEY SCHAFFER, LLP 

 /s/ Dylan L. Schaffer 

 DYLAN L. SCHAFFER 

Attorney for Plaintiffs 

Dated: August 21, 2024 DENTONS US LLP 

 /s/ Samuel D. Jubelirer (as authorized on 8/21/24) 

 SAMUEL D. JUBELIRER 

Attorneys for Nationwide Mutual Insurance 

Company 

 

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ORDER 

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

ORDERED that the expert discovery deadlines in this matter are modified as follows: 

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

2024; 

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

2024; 

 Expert Discovery Cut-Off: November 29, 2024; 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: August 22, 2024 

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ATTESTATION 

This document is being electronically filed through the Court’s ECF System. In this regard, 

counsel for Plaintiffs hereby attests that: (1) the content of this document is acceptable to all 

persons required to sign the document; (2) Defendant’s counsel has concurred with the filing of 

this document; and (3) a record supporting this concurrence is available for inspection or 

production if so ordered. 

Dated: August 21, 2024 KERLEY SCHAFFER, LLP 

 /s/ Dylan L. Schaffer 

 DYLAN L. SCHAFFER 

Attorney for Plaintiffs 

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