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Parties Involved:
Trisha Jo Smith
Plaintiff
Southwest Airlines Co.
Defendant
VDRP
Neutral

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Case No. 2:08-CV-00649-LKK-JFM STIPULATION AND ORDER RE. COMPLETION OF VDRP

SESSION

RYAN & FONG

TIMOTHY J. RYAN - 99542

REBEKKA MARTORANO - 173600

2379 Gateway Oaks Drive, Ste. 100

Sacramento, California 95833

Telephone: (916) 924-1912

Attorneys for Defendant

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SACRAMENTO DIVISION

TRISHA JO SMITH,

Plaintiff,

v.

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES COMPANY and

DOES 1 to 50,

Defendants.

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Case No. 2:08-CV-00649-LKK-JFM 

STIPULATION AND ORDER RE.

COMPLETION OF VDRP SESSION

The parties to this action, by and through their attorneys of record, stipulate as follows:

WHEREAS the parties previously agreed to participate in the Court’s Voluntary Dispute

Resolution Program (VDRP), and the Court issued an order (Docket No. 15) referring this matter

to that program;

WHEREAS the parties agreed to select John Jefferson with the firm of Dreyer, Babish,

Buccola & Calahan as the neutral, and this matter was referred to Mr. Jefferson for VDRP by

correspondence dated June 24, 2008;

WHEREAS a VDRP session was scheduled to be held on September 26, 2008;

WHEREAS defendant Southwest Airlines Co. (Southwest) needs to complete additional

discovery in order to be able to conduct a meaningful VDRP session, including obtaining plaintiff’s

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medical records and taking plaintiff’s deposition; 

WHEREAS Southwest has been unable to obtain the majority of plaintiff’s medical records

in spite diligent efforts to do so, because of delays in obtaining a response to a subpoena issued to

the Kaiser Permanente facility in Vallejo, and the parties have therefore agreed to continue the

deposition of plaintiff, currently set for August 22, 2008;

THEREFORE the parties agree to continue the VDRP session currently scheduled for

September 26, 2008, and will schedule a new date for the session once the medical records are

obtained and the deposition of plaintiff has been rescheduled. The parties request that they be

provided with an additional 90 days to complete the VDRP session, so that the session would be

completed by December 21, 2008.

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

Dated: August __, 2008 CROWELL & CROWELL

By: /s/ 

HENDRICK S. CROWELL

Attorneys for Plaintiff

Dated: August __, 2008 RYAN & FONG

By: /s/ 

REBEKKA R. MARTORANO

Attorneys for Defendant

Southwest Airlines Co.

ORDER

Pursuant to the stipulation of the parties and good cause appearing, the Court hereby extends

the time for the parties to complete their VDRP session to December 21, 2008.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 22, 2008.

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