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Parties Involved:
Duarte & Witting, Inc.
Plaintiff
Afsaneh Eghtesad
Plaintiff
Nader Eghtesad
Plaintiff
Nader Chrysler Plymouth
Plaintiff
Universal Underwriters Insurance Company
Defendant

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CASE NO. C05-1315 MHP AMENDED STIP. AND [PROP.] ORDER RE 

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TOD M. RATFIELD (State Bar No. 148545) 

1233 Alpine Road 

Walnut Creek, CA 94596 

Telephone: (925) 934.3300 

Facsimile: (925) 934.9775 

Email: todratfield@yahoo.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

DUARTE & WITTING, INC. dba NADER 

CHRYSLER PLYMOUTH, and NADER 

EGHTESAD and AFSANEH EGHTESAD 

MICHAEL BARNES (State Bar No. 121314) 

SONIA MARTIN (State Bar No. 191148) 

STEPHANIE DUCHENE (State Bar No. 234896) 

SONNENSCHEIN NATH & ROSENTHAL LLP 

685 Market Street, 6th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94105 

Telephone: (415) 882-5000 

Facsimile: (415) 543-5472 

Email: mbarnes@sonnenschein.com 

 smartin@sonnenschein.com 

 sduchene@sonnenschein.com 

Attorneys for Defendant 

UNIVERSAL UNDERWRITERS 

INSURANCE COMPANY 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

DUARTE & WITTING, INC. dba 

NADER CHRYSLER PLYMOUTH, and 

NADER EGHTESAD and AFSANEH 

EGHTESAD, individuals, 

 Plaintiffs, 

 vs. 

UNIVERSAL UNDERWRITERS 

INSURANCE COMPANY, and DOES 

1-100, inclusive, 

 Defendants. 

No. C 05-1315 MHP 

AMENDED STIPULATION AND 

[PROPOSED] ORDER RE 

DISCOVERY AND DISPOSITIVE 

MOTION DEADLINES 

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The parties, by and through their respective counsel of record, hereby stipulate and agree 

as follows and respectfully request that the Court approve and give effect to their stipulation: 

WHEREAS Sonia Martin, counsel for Universal Underwriters Insurance Company, 

suffered a death in her family on March 29, 2006 and will spend most of the week of April 3, 

2006 making funeral arrangements and attending the funeral; 

WHEREAS Universal has been unable to complete the depositions of plaintiffs Nader 

Eghtesad and Duarte and Witting, Inc. dba Nader Chrysler Plymouth (“Nader Chrysler”) 

because plaintiffs recently completed their document production; 

WHEREAS Universal’s repeated attempts to personally serve a deposition subpoena on 

plaintiffs’ engineer, Mehdi Rezazadeh, have been unsuccessful to date since he has been in Los 

Angeles; 

WHEREAS Universal recently served a subpoena on Nestor Lopez, and he will need to 

be deposed to preserve his testimony for trial; 

WHEREAS the parties recently learned that a material witnesses, Rick and Vicky 

Frame, reside in Nevada City, California, and will need to be deposed to preserve their 

testimony for trial; 

WHEREAS the discovery cut-off currently is April 3, 2006 and the deadline to file 

dispositive motions currently is April 10, 2006; 

WHEREAS a thirty-day continuance of the discovery cut-off and the deadlines to file and 

hear dispositive motions will not affect any other case management dates set by the Court; 

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED that the discovery cut-off should be 

continued to May 3, 2006, for the sole purpose of completing currently scheduled depositions, 

including, but not limited to James Wraith, Jim Redfern, Universal Underwriters Person Most 

Knowledgeable, David Murphy, Geron Van Den Berg, Bob Edwards and Philip R. Henry as well 

as the depositions of Mr. and Mrs. Frame, Mr. Rezazadeh, Gary Hsu and the continued 

deposition of Mr. Eghtesad and Nader Chrysler, on the dates currently scheduled or as mutually 

agreed by the parties. 

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IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED that the deadline to file dispositive 

motions should be continued to May 8, 2006, and the deadline to hear dispositive motions should 

be continued to June 12, 2006. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

 Dated: March 30, 2006 Respectfully submitted, 

LAW OFFICE OF TOD RATFIELD 

By /s/ .

Tod Ratfield 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

DUARTE & WITTING, INC. dba NADER 

CHRYSLER PLYMOUTH, and NADER 

EGHTESAD and AFSANEH EGHTESAD 

Dated: March 30, 2006 SONNENSCHEIN NATH & ROSENTHAL LLP 

By /s/ .

Sonia Martin 

Attorneys for Defendant 

UNIVERSAL UNDERWRITERS INSURANCE 

COMPANY 

 IT IS SO ORDERED. 

 

 Honorable Marilyn Hall Patel 

 U.S. District Court Judge 

27233322 

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NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Marilyn H. Patel

April 3, 2006

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