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Parties Involved:
Mark Bax
Plaintiff
Memorial Medical Center
Defendant
Sutter Gould Medical Foundation
Defendant
Sutter Health
Defendant
Sutter Health Memorial Medical Center
Defendant
Sutter Valley Hospitals
Defendant
Sutter Valley Medical Foundation
Defendant

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 Case No. 1:21-cv-01032-ADA-SKO

AMENDED STIPULATION AND ORDER TO MODIFY SCHEDULING ORDER 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, FRESNO DIVISION 

MARK BAX, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

SUTTER HEALTH, and SUTTER HEALTH 

MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER, 

Defendants. 

 Case No. 1:21-cv-01032-ADA-SKO 

AMENDED STIPULATION AND ORDER 

MODIFYING SCHEDULING ORDER 

(Doc. 28)

Plaintiff Mark Bax and Defendants Sutter Valley Hospitals, d/b/a Memorial Medical 

Center, and Sutter Valley Medical Foundation, d/b/a Sutter Gould Medical Foundation, stipulate 

as follows: 

WHEREAS, on February 10, 2022, the Court issued a Scheduling Order, which included a 

June 1, 2023 non-expert discovery deadline, including motions to compel any non-expert 

discovery, as well as other deadlines (see ECF No. 20 at 3); 

WHEREAS, the parties thereafter exchanged written discovery requests in November 2022 

and worked cooperatively to respond to each other’s requests, which occurred by March 1, 2023 

(see Declaration of Matthew Seipel (“Seipel Decl.”), ¶¶ 3-7); 

WHEREAS, throughout March, April, and early May 2023, the parties met and conferred 

about scheduling depositions of Plaintiff and numerous other individuals, including third parties 

(see id., ¶ 8); 

WHEREAS, Plaintiff’s deposition along with at least one other require the scheduling of 

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both a Certified Deaf Interpreter and a Certified Hearing Interpreter (see id., ¶ 10); 

WHEREAS, Plaintiff has to issue subpoenas to secure depositions of several third parties 

(see id., ¶ 12); 

WHEREAS, on April 12, 2023, lead counsel for Defendants was terminated as attorney of 

record for the case, and Alexandra V. Atencio became lead counsel representing Defendants (see

ECF Nos. 23, 25); 

WHEREAS, the parties need to take a number of depositions that cannot be conducted 

within the existing non-expert discovery cutoff period (see Seipel Decl., ¶¶ 10, 12-14); 

WHEREAS, there have been no prior continuances of the deadlines in this case; 

WHEREAS, the parties have met and conferred and agreed to extend the existing 

nonexpert discovery deadline by two months so as to provide more time to complete non-expert 

discovery, including, to serve subpoenas on third parties, obtain interpreters for depositions, 

conduct depositions, and complete any other non-expert discovery including motions to compel, if 

necessary (see id., ¶ 14); 

WHEREAS, on May 8, 2023, after the parties had submitted a stipulation seeking to 

extend the non-expert discovery deadline, the Court ordered the parties to meet and confer and 

submit an amended stipulation that proposes a schedule in which the non-expert discovery 

deadline predates the expert deadlines (ECF No. 27); 

WHEREAS, on May 9, 2023, the parties met and conferred and agreed to extend all the 

deadlines in the Scheduling Order by two months to accommodate the two-month extension of the 

non-expert discovery deadline; ensure that the non-expert discovery deadline predates the expert 

deadlines; and provide sufficient time for any non-dispositive and dispositive motions and for trial 

preparation and trial (see Seipel Decl., ¶ 15); 

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED by and between the parties, through their 

counsel, that the Scheduling Order be amended as follows: 

Discovery Deadlines: 

The non-expert discovery cutoff shall be extended from June 1, 2023 to August 1, 2023; 

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The deadline for expert disclosures shall be extended from June 1, 2023 to August 1, 2023; 

The deadline for rebuttal expert disclosures shall be extended from July 5, 2023 to 

September 5, 2023; 

The expert discovery cutoff shall be extended from August 1, 2023 to October 1, 2023; 

Non-Dispositive Motion Deadlines: 

The deadline to file non-dispositive motions shall be extended from September 1, 2023 to 

November 1, 2023; 

The deadline for non-dispositive motions to be heard shall be extended from October 4, 

2023 to December 4, 2023; 

Dispositive Motion Deadlines: 

The deadline to file dispositive motions shall be extended from October 2, 2023 to 

December 4, 2023; 

The deadline for dispositive motions to be heard shall be extended from November 21, 

2023 to January 22, 2024; 

Pre-Trial Conference 

The pre-trial conference shall be extended by approximately two months from January 22, 

2024 to a date selected by the Court; 

Trial Date 

The trial date shall be extended by approximately two months from March 19, 2024 to a 

date selected by the Court. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

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DATED: May 10, 2023 HANSON BRIDGETT LLP 

By: /s/ Matthew B. Seipel

 ALEXANDRA V. ATENCIO 

MATTHEW B. SEIPEL 

Attorneys for Defendants 

SUTTER VALLEY HOSPITALS, d/b/a 

MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER; and 

SUTTER VALLEY MEDICAL FOUNDATION, 

d/b/a SUTTER GOULD MEDICAL 

FOUNDATION 

DATED: May 10, 2023 EISENBERG & BAUM, LLP 

By: /s/ Andrew Rozynski (as authorized on 09/24/21) 

 ANDREW ROZYNSKI 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

MARK BAX 

ORDER 

Pursuant to the parties’ foregoing amended stipulation (Doc. 28), and for good cause 

shown (see Fed. R. Civ. P. 16(b)(4), IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Scheduling Order (Doc. 

20) is MODIFIED as follows: 

Discovery Deadlines: 

The non-expert discovery cutoff is extended to August 1, 2023; 

The deadline for expert disclosures is extended to August 1, 2023; 

The deadline for rebuttal expert disclosures is extended to September 5, 2023; 

The expert discovery cutoff is extended to October 1, 2023; 

Non-Dispositive Motion Deadlines: 

The deadline to file non-dispositive motions is extended to November 1, 2023; 

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The deadline for non-dispositive motions to be heard is extended to December 6, 

2023;

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Dispositive Motion Deadlines: 

The deadline to file dispositive motions is extended to December 4, 2023; 

The deadline for dispositive motions to be heard is extended to January 22, 2024; 

Pre-Trial Conference 

The pre-trial conference is extended to June 24, 2024;

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Trial Date 

The trial date is extended to August 27, 2024; and 

The Settlement Conference remains AS SET on September 28, 2023, at 10:30 a.m. (See

Doc. 24.) 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: May 12, 2023 /s/ Sheila K. Oberto .

 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 

1 Magistrate Judge Oberto hears civil motions on Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m.

2 The pretrial conference and trial dates are enlarged beyond the parties’ request to allow for time for the assigned 

district judge to adjudicate any dispositive motions in advance of the pretrial conference and for the parties to prepare 

for trial.

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