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Parties Involved:
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Defendant
Walter Sims
Plaintiff

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36155266v1 0969145

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

WALTER SIMS, 

Plaintiff,

vs.

METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE 

COMPANY, and DOES 1 to 100,

Defendants.

Case No. 2:14-CV-02789-TLN-EFB

Honorable Troy L. Nunley

ORDER GRANTING 

STIPULATION AND REQUEST 

TO CONTINUE ERISA TRIAL 

AND RELATED DATES

Complaint Filed: December 1, 2014

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ORDER

Having reviewed the Stipulation of Plaintiff Walter Sims and Defendant 

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company regarding their request for a further 

continuance of the ERISA trial date and related briefing deadlines to facilitate 

settlement and further mediation, following determination from Plaintiff's Social 

Security Disability Income benefits appeal, and for good cause shown, IT IS 

HEREBY ORDERED that trial and briefing schedule shall be continued as follows:

Opening Briefs shall be filed by July 1, 2016.

Responsive Briefs shall be filed by July 29, 2016.

Trial Date (1/2 Day Bench Trial) is set for September 9, 2016 at 9:00 a.m.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: May 3, 2016 

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