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Parties Involved:
Chavez
Defendant
City of Merced
Defendant
Detective Deliman
Defendant
Merced Police Department
Defendant
Officer Lodwick
Defendant
Sgt. Court
Defendant
Luh Xiong
Plaintiff
Kong Meng Xiong
Plaintiff

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

FRESNO DIVISION

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The parties, for the reasons set forth below, herein stipulate and request the Court 

extend the fact discovery cutoff and all subsequent dates by approximately 150 calendar days. 

This stipulation and request is based upon the need to complete depositions by November 3, 

2014 (the current deadline).

WHEREAS, the parties have engaged diligently in discovery, including production of 

documents and other written discovery;

WHEREAS, the written discovery was required to be undertaken prior to depositions 

of relevant witnesses;

WHEREAS, this case involves two related lawsuits, involving four (4) different law 

firms: Law Offices of Kallis & Associates, Bustamante & Gagliasso, P.C., Law Offices of 

John L. Burris, and Allen, Glaessner, Hazelwood & Werth. 

 KONG MENG XIONG, 

 Plaintiff,

 vs.

CITY OF MERCED, ET AL.

 Defendants.

LUH XIONG, 

 Plaintiff,

vs.

CITY OF MERCED, ET AL. 

 Defendants.

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Case No.: 1:13-CV-00083 SKO

Related Case No.: 1:13-cv-00111-SKO

JOINT STIPULATION AND APPLICATION FOR 

EXTENSION OF CURRENT FACT DISCOVERY 

DEADLINE AND ADJUSTMENT OF OTHER 

SUBSEQUENT SCHEDULE DATES; ORDER 

THEREON 

Complaint Filed: January 16, 2013

Trial Date: April 14, 2015

Jury Trial Requested

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WHEREAS, various counsel have been engaged in jury trials and other matters over the 

last two (2) months which has rendered the scheduling of depositions unachievable;

WHEREAS, the parties have confirmed depositions for the very end of October and the 

first week of November 2014;

WHEREAS, the parties do not anticipate that the schedule as it currently resides will 

allow for all necessary depositions to be conducted by the current discovery cut-off of 

November 3, 2014.

Further, it is agreed to by the parties that there are numerous (>5) percipient 

witnesses that will need to be deposed. These witnesses were at the location of the 

shooting; and there are numerous (4) police witnesses, parties (7) and PMK’s (3-5) 

who need to be deposed before expert depositions can be undertaken.

NOW THEREFORE, the parties hereby agree and stipulate that the close of fact 

discovery, and all subsequent filing deadlines need to be moved so that the above 20 

depositions can be scheduled. The Parties believe that it will require more than 20 

actual days to take the depositions, including travel time. No attorney associated with 

this case has any block of time greater than three days available at one time. Based on 

discussion between counsel, in the best case scenario, the parties would need 7 three 

day blocks of time. If this could be done every other week, which is unlikely, the parties 

would need approximately 14 additional weeks. In order to minimize the likelihood of 

needing to ask for additional time the Parties feel that an additional buffer of 7 weeks 

should absorb any scheduling issues. 

The parties stipulate to the following modifications to the Scheduling Order.

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Current schedule New Schedule

Non Expert Discovery: 11/3/2014; April 2, 2015

Expert Disclosure: 11/17/2014; April 16, 2015

Suppl. Expert Disclosures: 12/1/2014; April, 30, 2015

Expert Discovery: 12/15/2014. May 14, 2015

Non-Dispositive Motions 12/22/2014. May 21, 2015

Dispositive Motions filed by 12/22/2014. May 21, 2015

Settlement Conference set for 12/16/2014, May 15, 2015

Pretrial Conference set for 3/4/2015 August 1, 2015

Jury Trial (12-15 days) 4/14/2015 September 11, 2015

GENERAL ORDER 45(X)(B) STATEMENT 

 

Pursuant to General Order No. 45(X)(b), I hereby attest that concurrence in the filing 

of this document has been obtained from counsel for Defendants City of Merced et.al, and that 

I have retained in my possession e-mails so authorizing the filing of this stipulation.

Date October 1, 2014

KALLIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C.

By /s/

M. JEFFERY KALLIS

Attorneys for Plaintiff

KONG MENG XIONG

BUSTAMANTE & GAGLIASSO

By /s/

STEVEN M. BERKI

Attorneys for Plaintiff

KONG MENG XIONG

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LAW OFFICES OF JOHN L. BURRIS

By:_______/s/_____________________________

ADANTÉ D. POINTER

Attorney for Plaintiff

Attorney for Luh Xiong

Allen Glaessner Hazelwood Werth

By /s/

DALE L. ALLEN, JR.

Attorneys for Defendants

CITY OF MERCED; MERCED POLICE 

DEPARTMENT; OFFICER CHAVEZ(#); 

OFFICER LODWICK(#); DETECTIVE 

DELIMAN(#); AND SGT. COURT(#)

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ORDER 

 The Court, having considered the parties’ Stipulation and Request, the documents and 

records on file with the Court, finds good cause to modify the schedule. Some of the dates 

requested by the parties have been modified slightly to accommodate the Court's calendar or 

because the date proposed fell on a weekend. The dates modified from the parties' proposed 

dates are bolded and underlined below.

Current schedule New Schedule 

Non Expert Discovery: 11/3/2014; April 2, 2015

Expert Disclosure: 11/17/2014; April 16, 2015

Suppl. Expert Disclosures: 12/1/2014; April, 30, 2015

Expert Discovery: 12/15/2014. May 14, 2015

Non-Dispositive Motions 12/22/2014. May 20, 2015

Dispositive Motions filed by 12/22/2014. May 20, 2015

Settlement Conference set for 12/16/2014, May 15, 2015

Pretrial Conference set for 3/4/2015 August 5, 2015

Jury Trial (12-15 days) 4/14/2015 September 15, 2015

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: October 7, 2014 /s/ Sheila K. Oberto 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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