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Parties Involved:
Country Visions, Inc.
Counter Defendant
Midsouth LLC
Counter Claimant
Kenneth Peterson
Counter Defendant
R. North Beach, Inc.
ThirdParty Plaintiff

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JOINT STIPULATION TO EXTEND TRIAL DEADLINES; ORDER

DOWNEY BRAND LLP

ELIZABETH B. STALLARD (Bar No. 221445)

621 Capitol Mall, 18th Floor

Sacramento, CA 95814-4731

Telephone: 916.444.1000

Facsimile: 916.444.2100

estallard@downeybrand.com

GARNER & GINSBURG, P.A.

W. Michael Garner (MN Bar No. 0274914)

222 South Ninth Street, Suite 2930

Minneapolis, MN 55402

Telephone: (612) 259-4800

Facsimile: (612) 259-4810

wmgarner@yourfranchiselawyer.com 

Attorneys for Defendant/Counter-Claimant

MIDSOUTH, LLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

COUNTRY VISIONS INC., a California 

corporation,

Plaintiff,

v.

MIDSOUTH LLC, an Illinois corporation,

Defendant.

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TRIAL DEADLINES; ORDER

AND RELATED CROSS ACTIONS.

Plaintiff/Counterdefendant Country Visions, Inc., Counterdefendant Kenneth Peterson and 

Defendant/Counterclaimant Midsouth, LLC, by and through their respective counsel, hereby 

stipulate and request that the Court order as follows:

WHEREAS, in May of this year, Midsouth filed a Motion to Consolidate this action with 

Case No. 2:15-cv-02014-TLN-CKD, captioned R. North Beach, Inc. v. Country Visions, Inc., et 

al. (hereinafter, “North Beach Case”) for discovery purposes and to set the pre-trial schedule in 

accordance with the schedule previously agreed to by the parties and submitted in a Joint Status 

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Report in the North Beach Case, which would extend the deadlines in this case;

WHEREAS, Country Visions and Peterson indicated in their response to the Motion that 

they do not oppose consolidation for discovery purposes;

WHEREAS, briefing was complete in June of this year, but a ruling has not yet been 

issued on the Motion; 

WHEREAS, certain deadlines in this action are approaching, and while the parties 

anticipate that the deadlines in this matter will be extended, they do not want to waive their rights 

to pursue any currently-available options while the ruling is pending.

THEREFORE, the Parties hereby stipulate, and respectfully request that this Court order, 

that in order to preserve their rights pending a decision on the Motion being issued and a new 

schedule being identified, all pending deadlines in the Court’s Status (Pretrial Scheduling) Order

dated November 6, 2015 (Dkt. No. 22), as amended by the Court’s Order Approving Stipulation 

to Extend Expert Witness Disclosure Deadlines dated April 27, 2016 (Dkt. No. 37), be extended 

by sixty (60) days. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

DATED: September 8, 2016 DOWNEY BRAND LLP

By: /s/ Elizabeth B. Stallard

ELIZABETH B. STALLARD

Attorney for Defendant/Counter-Claimant

MIDSOUTH LLC

DATED: September 8, 2016 BOUTIN JONES INC.

By: /s/ Robert D. Swanson (as authorized on 9/8/16) 

ROBERT D. SWANSON

Attorney for Plaintiff/Counter-Defendants

COUNTRY VISIONS, INC. and 

KENNETH PETERSEN 

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ORDER

Pursuant to the stipulation of Defendant/Counter-Claimant MIDSOUTH LLC

(“Defendant”) and Plaintiff COUNTRY VISIONS, INC. (“Plaintiff”) and good cause existing 

therefore:

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that all pending deadlines in the Court’s Status (Pretrial 

Scheduling) Order dated November 6, 2015 (Dkt. No. 22), as amended by the Court’s Order 

Approving Stipulation to Extend Expert Witness Disclosure Deadlines dated April 27, 2016 (Dkt. 

No. 37), are extended by sixty (60) days. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: September 9, 2016

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