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Parties Involved:
Gooch
Defendant
Miya Simpson
Plaintiff

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Amended Stipulation To Modify Case Scheduling Order (2:13-cv-1483-JAM-AC) 

KAMALA D. HARRIS

Attorney General of California 

PETER A. MESHOT

Supervising Deputy Attorney General 

KEVIN W. REAGER

Deputy Attorney General 

State Bar No. 178478 

1300 I Street, Suite 125 

P.O. Box 944255 

Sacramento, CA 94244-2550 

Telephone: (916) 324-5331 

Fax: (916) 322-8288 

E-mail: Kevin.Reager@doj.ca.gov 

Attorneys for Defendant California Highway Patrol 

Officer Craig Gooch 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SACRAMENTO DIVISION 

MIYA SIMPSON, 

Plaintiff,

v. 

OFFICER GOOCH (Badge 12931); and 

DOES 1 through 40, et al., 

Defendants.

Case No. 2:13-cv-1483-JAM-AC 

AMENDED STIPULATION TO MODIFY 

THE CASE SCHEDULING ORDER AND 

ORDER 

Judge: The Honorable John A. Mendez 

Trial Date: May 4, 2015 

Action Filed: July 23, 2013 

TO THE HONORABLE COURT: 

The parties hereby stipulate to modifying the case scheduling order to allow additional time 

to take the deposition of Plaintiff Miya Simpson and Defendant Officer Gooch. The parties 

request that all pending dates be vacated and reset as follows: 

1. Discovery Cutoff: February 27, 2015; 

2. Dispositive Motion Filing: March 25, 2015; 

3. Dispositive Motion Hearing: April 22, 2015, at 9:30 a.m.: 

4. Joint Pretrial Statement Due: May 29, 2015; 

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Amended Stipulation To Modify Case Scheduling Order (2:13-cv-1483-JAM-AC) 

5. Pretrial Conference: June 5, 2015 at 11:00 a.m, and; 

6. Jury Trial: July 13, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. 

 The parties believe that good cause exists to modify the scheduling order because, as 

reported by the parties in their mid-ligation statements, counsel for Plaintiff had lost contact with 

Ms. Simpson and was unable to arrange for the deposition prior to the November 28, 2014, 

discovery cut-off. After meeting and conferring, defense counsel had to unilaterally schedule the 

deposition for November 21, 2014, because Ms. Simpson had not responded to any of her 

counsel’s attempts to contact her. Predictably, Ms. Simpson did not appear for the deposition. 

 On Monday, November 23, 2014, just prior to the Thanksgiving holidays, Plaintiff reestablished contact with her counsel. Counsel offered to make Ms. Simpson available for her 

deposition. However, with the cut-off set for the Friday after Thanksgiving, there was no time to 

schedule and complete the deposition, as well as any potential motions to compel, prior to the cutoff. Plaintiff has agreed to be deposed in accordance with the proposed modified schedule. 

 Defense counsel has likewise agreed to make Defendant available for deposition, so that 

all of the evidence will then be available to the parties for use in dispositive motions. 

 The parties have not previously requested any modifications or continuances. The interests 

of judicial economy favor allowing the parties to complete the depositions in order to streamline 

the evidence that will be presented at trial. Also, after the depositions are completed, the parties 

may be able to avoid a trial altogether through dispositive motions or settlement. 

 For these reasons, the parties respectfully request that the case scheduling order be modified 

as set forth above to allow the parties to complete discovery and present dispositive motions, if 

appropriate. 

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Amended Stipulation To Modify Case Scheduling Order (2:13-cv-1483-JAM-AC) 

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

Dated: January 15, 2015 Respectfully submitted, 

LAW OFFICES OF JOHNNY L. GRIFFIN, 

III 

/s/ Manolo Olaso 

JOHNNY L. GRIFFEN, III

MANOLO OLASO

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

Dated: January 15, 2015 Respectfully submitted, 

KAMALA D. HARRIS

Attorney General of California 

PETER A. MESHOT

Supervising Deputy Attorney General 

/s/ Kevin W. Reager 

KEVIN W. REAGER

Deputy Attorney General 

Attorneys for Defendant Gooch 

 IT IS SO ORDERED. The case scheduling order is modified as follows: 

1. Discovery Cutoff: February 27, 2015; 

2. Dispositive Motion Filing: March 25, 2015; 

3. Dispositive Motion Hearing: April 22, 2015, at 9:30 a.m.; 

4. Joint Pretrial Statement Due: May 29, 2015; 

5. Pretrial Conference: June 5, 2015 at 11:00 a.m., and; 

6. Jury Trial: July 13, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. 

No other modifications will be permitted absent a showing of manifest injustice. 

Dated: 1/15/2015 

 /s/ John A. Mendez_______________________ 

 HON. JOHN A. MENDEZ 

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE 

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