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Parties Involved:
Clarendon America Insurance Company
Defendant
Sierra Foothills Public Utility District
Plaintiff

Document Text:

WILKINS,

DROLSHAGEN &

CZESHINSKI LLP

7050 N. Fresno Street,

Suite 204

Fresno, CA 93720

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Stipulation and [Proposed] Order Permitting Each Party to Propound up to Forty Interrogatories

James H. Wilkins, #116364

Alyson A. Berg, #184795

WILKINS, DROLSHAGEN & CZESHINSKI LLP

7050 N. Fresno Street, Suite 204

Fresno, CA 93720

Telephone: (559) 438-2390

Facsimile: (559) 438-2393

Attorneys for Defendant, CLARENDON AMERICA

INSURANCE COMPANY

(SPACE BELOW FOR FILING STAM P ONLY)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA - FRESNO

SIERRA FOOTHILLS PUBLIC UTILITY

DISTRICT,

Plaintiff,

v.

CLARENDON AMERICA INSURANCE

COMPANY, and DOES 1 through 100,

inclusive,

Defendants.

CASE NO. 1:05-CV-00736-REC-LJO

STIPULATION AND ORDER

PERMITTING EACH PARTY TO

PROPOUND UP TO FORTY

INTERROGATORIES

The following Stipulation is entered into between Plaintiff, SIERRA FOOTHILLS PUBLIC

UTILITY DISTRICT and Defendant, CLARENDON AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY. The

parties, by and through its respective counsel of record, hereby agree and stipulate as follows:

1. This is an insurance bad faith lawsuit arising out of an underlying lawsuit entitled

David Englert v. Sierra Foothills, Madera County Superior Court Case No. MCV 020596.

2. The parties have been engaged in significant written discovery in this matter over the

past several months.

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Stipulation and [Proposed] Order Permitting Each Party to Propound up to Forty Interrogatories

3. The parties believe that, based upon the nature and extent of the various factual and

legal issues implicated by this lawsuit, the statutorily-proscribed limit of twenty-five interrogatories

will not adequately allow the parties to prepare for trial.

4. The parties believe that, based upon the foregoing, a Court Order permitting the

parties to propound an additional 15 interrogatories (with an aggregate limit of forty interrogatories)

is warranted.

5. Based on the foregoing, THE PARTIES HEREBY STIPULATE THAT THE COURT

SHOULD permit them to each propound up to forty interrogatories in this matter.

6. The parties believe the Order requested herein will not delay the prosecution of this

matter and, to the contrary, believe the additional discovery could streamline the number of issues

in dispute as this matter proceeds forward.

Dated: March 27, 2005. WILKINS, DROLSHAGEN & CZESHINSKI LLP

By /s/ Alyson A. Berg 

 Alyson A. Berg

Attorneys for Defendant CLARENDON AMERICA

INSURANCE COMPANY

Dated: March 28, 2006. McCORMICK, BARSTOW, SHEPPARD, 

WAYTE & CARRUTH

By /s/ Anthony L. Osborn 

James P. Wagoner

Anthony L. Osborn

Attorneys for Plaintiff SIERRA FOOTHILLS PUBLIC

UTILITY DISTRICT

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Stipulation and [Proposed] Order Permitting Each Party to Propound up to Forty Interrogatories

ORDER

The Court, having reviewed the attached Stipulation of the parties and finding good cause

with respect thereto, hereby issues an Order permitting each party to propound a total of forty

interrogatories in this matter.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 28, 2006 /s/ Lawrence J. O'Neill 

66h44d UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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