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Parties Involved:
Pacific Marine Center, Inc.
Plaintiff
Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company
Defendant
Sona Vartanian
Plaintiff

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER RE DISCOVERY CUT-OFF AND AMENDING SCHEDULING 

ORDER

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Bruce T. Smyth- State Bar No. 89171

CHARLSTON, REVICH & WOLLITZ LLP

1925 Century Park East, Suite 1250

Los Angeles, California 90067-2746

Tel: (310) 551-7055 • Fax: (310) 203-9321

Attorneys for Defendant, 

Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

PACIFIC MARINE CENTER, INC., a 

California corporation, and SONA 

VARTANIAN, an individual,

Plaintiffs,

v.

PHILADELPHIA INDEMNITY

INSURANCE COMPANY, a 

Pennsylvania corporation, and DOES 

1 through 10, inclusive,

Defendants.

Case No. 1:13-CV-00992-AWI-SKO

STIPULATION AND ORDER RE 

DISCOVERY CUT-OFF AND 

AMENDMENT OF SCHEDULING 

ORDER

WHEREAS, Defendant Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company, 

pursuant to agreement with the Plaintiffs, had set the depositions of Plaintiffs Sona 

Vartanian and Pacific Marine Center, Inc., by its president, Sona Vartanian, for July 

29, 2015 and July 30, 2015;

WHEREAS, counsel for Plaintiffs reported that Ms. Vartanian suffered a 

broken ankle in a fall a week before she was scheduled to testify and is under pain 

medication which will prevent her from being able to testify for a few weeks;

WHEREAS, Defendant Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company is 

willing to continue the depositions of Plaintiffs for a few weeks because of Ms. 

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Vartanian’s medical condition, but does not want to be prevented from completing 

discovery before the current non expert discovery deadline date of September 15, 

2015, because it may seek additional depositions and discovery dependent on the 

testimony in Ms. Vartanian’s depositions and requires the testimony in those 

depositions to prepare any expert reports;

WHEREAS, the parties through their counsel have mutually agreed to 

continue the depositions of Ms. Vartanian and Pacific Marine Center, Inc. because 

of the accident to Plaintiff Sona Vartanian and her medical condition and to request 

that the discovery cutoff and other deadline dates set forth in the case original 

Scheduling Order and Order Amending Scheduling Order be continued in order to 

allow Philadelphia to complete deposition discovery within the discovery cutoff 

and to have sufficient time to prepare expert reports and file motions;

WHEREAS, after meeting and conferring, the counsel have agreed to 

approximate two month extensions of the scheduling dates;

NOW, THEREFORE, it is hereby stipulated by Plaintiffs and Defendant, by 

and through their respective counsel of record, as follows:

1. The various deadlines for discovery and pre-trial and trial dates 

currently set shall be continued for some two months to the following dates, or such 

other dates in reasonable proximity thereto convenient to the Court’s schedule, as 

follows:

Non Expert Discovery cutoff: November 13, 2015.

Expert Disclosure: November 13, 2015.

Supplemental Expert Disclosure: December 4, 2015.

Expert Discovery cutoff: January 8, 2016.

Settlement Conference: August 26, 2015, at 10:00 a.m., Courtroom 8.

Non Dispositive Motions:

Filing: January 8, 2016.

Hearing: February 8, 2016.

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Dispositive Motions:

Filing: January 8, 2016

Hearing: February 23, 2016.

Pre-Trial Conference: March 21, 2016, at 8:30 a.m., Courtroom 2.

Trial: May 23, 2016, at 8:30 a.m., Courtroom 2.

2. The Case Scheduling Order, dated November 26, 2013, the Order Re 

Discovery Cut-Off and Amending Scheduling Order, signed October 2, 2015, the 

Order re Discovery Cut-Off and Amendment of Scheduling Order, signed March 9, 

2015, and the Order re Discovery Cut-Off and Amendment of Scheduling Order, 

signed May 7, 2015, shall be amended to reflect the new dates.

Dated: July , 2015 THE REICH LAW FIRM

 By: 

Jeff Reich

Attorneys for Plaintiffs Pacific Marine 

Center, Inc. and Sona Vartanian

Dated: July 28, 2015 CHARLSTON, REVICH & WOLLITZ LLP

 By: /s/ Bruce T. Smyth

Bruce T. Smyth

Attorneys for Defendant Philadelphia 

Indemnity Insurance Company

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ORDER

Based on the parties’ stipulation, the Court modifies the November 26, 2013, 

scheduling order to grant the parties an extension of time to complete fact and 

expert discovery, and to file dispositive and non-dispositive motions. 

This is the parties’ third stipulation and request to reset the trial date. 

(Docs. 16; 32; 39. See also Docs. 9; 17; 33; 40.) The settlement conference, pretrial conference, and trial dates remain as set in the Court’s May 8, 2015, 

scheduling order. (Doc. 40.) 

Accordingly, discovery deadlines and motion filing deadlines are continued 

as follows:

Settlement Conference: August 26, 2015, at 9:30 a.m., in Ctrm. 8.

Non Expert Discovery Cutoff: October 15, 2015.

Expert Disclosure: October 26, 2015.

Supplemental Expert Disclosure: October 30, 2015.

Expert Discovery cutoff: November 13, 2015.

Non Dispositive Motions:

Filing: November 16, 2015.

Hearing: December 16, 2015.

Dispositive Motions:

Filing: November 16, 2015.

Hearing: December 21, 2016.

Pre-Trial Conference: January 27, 2016, at 10:00 a.m., Ctrm. 2.

Trial: March 22, 2016, at 8:30 a.m., in Ctrm. 2.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: July 30, 2015 /s/ Sheila K. Oberto 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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