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Parties Involved:
Discover P&C Insurance Co.
Defendant
Discover-Re Managers, Inc.
Defendant
RSUI Indemnity Company
Plaintiff

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1027548.1

STIPULATION TO EXTEND DISCOVERY CUTOFF AND EXPERT DISCLOSURE DATES

MUSICK, PEELER & GARRETT LLP

ATTORNEYS AT LAW

ONE WILSHIRE BOULEVARD, SUITE 2000

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90017-3383

TELEPHONE 213-629-7600

FACSIMILE 213-624-1376

David A. Tartaglio (State Bar No. 117232)

Cheryl A. Orr (State Bar No. 132379)

Chad A. Westfall (State Bar No. 208968)

Attorneys for Plaintiff RSUI INDEMNITY COMPANY

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RSUI INDEMNITY COMPANY,

Plaintiff,

vs.

DISCOVER P&C INSURANCE CO.; 

DISCOVER-RE MANAGERS, INC.; and 

DOES 1 through 20, inclusive,

Defendants.

CASE No. 2:13-CV-00960-TLN-EFB

STIPULATION TO EXTEND

DISCOVERY CUTOFF AND EXPERT 

DISCLOSURE DATES

AND ORDER 

WHEREAS the Court’s Pretrial Scheduling Order [Dkt 38] referred this matter to 

the Court’s Voluntary Dispute Resolution Program;

WHEREAS the VDRP Administrator has appointed four (4) different VDRP 

Neutrals [Dkt. 39, 41, 44 and 48] over the last four months and had to withdraw all of those 

appointments for various reasons not attributable to the parties [Dkt. 40 (neutral calendar too full), 

43 (neutral did not respond to communications from court), 45 (neutral had conflict of interest) 

and 49(neutral retired)];

WHEREAS Plaintiff RSUI Indemnity Company (“RSUI”) and Defendant Discover 

P&C Insurance Co. (“DPCIC”) had not anticipated these difficulties in selecting a mediator when 

they stipulated to the VDRP program and provided their Joint Status Report [Dkt 35] to the Court 

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1027548.1

STIPULATION AND ORDER 

TO EXTEND DISCOVERY CUTOFF AND EXPERT DISCLOSURE DATES

MUSICK, PEELER

& GARRETT LLP

ATTORNEYS AT LAW

regarding the pre-trial schedule; 

WHEREAS the Court’s Pretrial Scheduling Order [Dkt 38] provides all discovery 

in this matter shall be completed by February 17, 2017, expert designations and Rule 26(a)(2)(B) 

reports are to be made no later than April 20, 2017, and rebuttal experts are to be designated no 

later than 20 days after the designation of experts;

WHESEAR RSUI and DPCIC have conducted a substantial amount of written 

discovery, but would like to opportunity to complete the VDRP mediation before incurring all the 

expense required to complete discovery, designate experts and designate rebuttal experts; 

WHEREAS a six week extension of the discovery cutoff and expert designation 

dates should allow the parties to explore settlement and potentially avoid the expense of 

completing discovery designation of experts; 

WHEREAS the extension will not otherwise impact the Court’s Pretrial 

Scheduling Order or the trial date; 

WHEREAS the Parties have not previously sought any extension of the discovery 

cutoff date, the expert designation date or the rebuttal expert designation date;

NOW, THEREFORE, pursuant to Eastern District Local Rules 143 and 144, THE 

PARTIES HEREBY STIPULATE, by and through their attorneys of record and subject to the 

Court’s approval, that (1) the February 17, 2017 discovery cutoff date in the Pretrial Scheduling 

Order be extended to April 1, 2017; (2) the April 20, 2017 expert designation be extended to May 

1, 2017, and (3) the date for designation of rebuttal experts be extended to May 20, 2017.

Dated: January 18, 2017 MUSICK, PEELER & GARRETT LLP

/s/

By:_____________________________________

CHAD A. WESTFALL

Attorneys for Plaintiff

RSUI INDEMNITY COMPANY

Dated: January 18, 2017 CARLSON, CALLADINE & PETERSON LLP

/s/

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1027548.1

STIPULATION AND ORDER 

TO EXTEND DISCOVERY CUTOFF AND EXPERT DISCLOSURE DATES

MUSICK, PEELER

& GARRETT LLP

ATTORNEYS AT LAW

By:_______________________________________

ROBERT M. PETERSON

Attorney for Defendants

DISCOVER PROPERTY & CASUALTY

INSURANCE COMPANY and DISCOVERRE MANAGERS, INC.

I, Chad A. Westfall, am the ECF user whose ID and password are being used to file this 

STIPULATION TO EXTEND DISCOVERY CUTOFF AND EXPERT DISCLOSURE DATES. I 

hereby attest that the counsel whose e-signature appears above has concurred with this filing. 

/s/

By:________________________________________

CHAD A. WESTFALL

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: January 19, 2017

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