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Parties Involved:
Arch Specialty Insurance Company
Defendant
Gerawan Farming Partners, Inc.
Plaintiff
Royal Surplus Lines Insurance Company
Defendant
Westchester Surplus Lines Insurance Company
Defendant

Document Text:

MICHAEL C. PHILLIPS APC (Bar No. 48473)

LISA L. COPLEN (Bar No. 142726)

WILLIAM S. HONG (Bar No. 224214)

ANDERSON, McPHARLIN & CONNERS LLP

Thirty-First Floor

444 South Flower Street

Los Angeles, California 90071-2901

TELEPHONE: (213) 688-0080 t FACSIMILE: (213) 622-7594

Attorneys for Defendant, WESTCHESTER

SURPLUS LINES INSURANCE COMPANY

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, FRESNO DIVISION

GERAWAN FARMING PARTNERS, INC., a

California corporation,

Plaintiff,

vs.

WESTCHESTER SURPLUS LINES

INSURANCE COMPANY, ARCH

SPECIALTY INSURANCE COMPANY,

ROYAL SURPLUS LINES INSURANCE

COMPANY and DOES 1 through 100,

Defendants.

Case No. 1:05-CV-01186-AWI-DLB

STIPULATION AND ORDER TO

CONTINUE TRIAL AND RELATED

DATES

TO THIS HONORABLE COURT:

RECITALS

A. Plaintiff GERAWAN FARMING PARTNERS, INC. ("GERAWAN") filed this

action on June 6, 2005, in Fresno Superior Court, naming WESTCHESTER SURPLUS LINES

INSURANCE COMPANY ("WESTCHESTER"), ARCH SPECIALTY INSURANCE

COMPANY ("ARCH") and ROYAL SURPLUS LINES INSURANCE COMPANY ("ROYAL")

as defendants. This matter involves an insurance coverage dispute regarding benefits under one or

more insurance policies for pitting to nectarines processed at GERAWAN's packing facility.

B. On September 15, 2005, WESTCHESTER removed this action to the United States

District Court for the Eastern District of California, Fresno Division.

C. The parties have been diligently conducting discovery according to the scheduling

conference order issued by this Court;

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D. The parties have participated in mediation before the Honorable Judge Richard L.

Gilbert (Retired) on July 16, 2007;

E. Whereas based on Judge Gilbert's recommendations, the parties agreed to a further

mediation session on October 11, 2007, which would allow the parties additional time to demand

and inspect specific information requests concerning the plaintiff's alleged damages to address

defendants' concerns about plaintiff's claim calculations;

STIPULATION

Based on the above recitals, the parties, through their respective attorneys of record,

hereby stipulate to the entry of the Order filed concurrently herewith continuing the Trial and all

related dates as follows:

1. Non-Expert Discovery Cut-Off deadline of September 21, 2007, will be continued

to December 21, 2007;

2. Expert Disclosure deadline of October 19, 2007, will be continued to January 18,

2008;

3. Expert Discovery deadline of November 23, 2007, will be continued to February

22, 2008;

4. Non-Dispositive Motion Filing deadline of October 26, 2007, will be continued to

January 25, 2008;

5. Deadline of November 30, 2007, for hearing on Non-Dispositive Motion, will be

continued to February 29, 2008;

6. Dispositive Motion Filing deadline of December 7, 2007, will be continued to

March 7, 2008;

7. Dispositive Motion Hearing deadline of February 1, 2008, will be continued to

May 2, 2008;

8. Mandatory Settlement Conference date of December 3, 2007, will be continued to

March 3, 2008;

9. Pre-Trial Conference date of January 16, 2008, will be continued to April 16, 2008

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at 8:30 a.m.;

10. Trial date of March 3, 2008, will be continued to June 3, 2008 at 8:30 a.m..

DATED: July __, 2007 STAMMER, MCKNIGHT, BARNUM & BAILEY

By:________________________________________

Michael Mallery

Attorneys for Plaintiff, GERWAN FARMING

PARTNERS, INC. 

DATED: July __, 2007 ANDERSON, McPHARLIN & CONNERS LLP

By:_________________________________________

Michael C. Phillips APC

Lisa L. Coplen, Esq.

William S. Hong, Esq.

Attorneys for Defendant, WESTCHESTER SURPLUS 

LINES INSURANCE COMPANY

DATED: July __, 2007 CLAUSEN MILLER PC

By:__________________________________________

. Keith E. Butler, Esq.

Jeffrey Neal Gesell, Esq.

Attorneys for Defendant, ARCH SPECIALTY

INSURANCE COMPANY and ROYAL SURPLUS LINE

INSURANCE COMPANY

ORDER

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 6, 2007 /s/ Anthony W. Ishii 

9h0d30 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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