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Parties Involved:
Continental Insurance Company
Plaintiff
Transatlantic Reinsurance Company
Defendant

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Timothy T. Scott (SBN 126971) 

Geoffrey M. Ezgar (SBN 184243) 

SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP 

555 California Street, Suite 2000

San Francisco, California 94101 

Telephone: (415) 772-1200 

Facsimile: (415) 772-7400 

Melville W. Washburn (admitted Pro Hac Vice) 

James C. Blenko (admitted Pro Hac Vice) 

SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP 

One South Dearborn Street 

Chicago, Illinois 60603 

Telephone: (312) 853-7000 

Facsimile: (312) 853-7036 

Attorneys For Plaintiff 

Continental Insurance Company 

[Counsel for Defendant Listed on Signature Page]

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

CONTINENTAL INSURANCE COMPANY, a 

New Hampshire insurance company, 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

TRANSATLANTIC REINSURANCE 

COMPANY, a New York insurance company, 

Defendant. 

TRANSATLANTIC REINSURANCE 

COMPANY, a New York Insurance Company, 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

CONTINENTAL INSURANCE COMPANY, a 

New Hampshire insurance company, 

 Defendant. 

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Case Nos. C03-1448 (TEH); C03-5470 (TEH) 

Assigned to: Honorable Thelton E. Henderson 

JOINT MOTION FOR EXTENSION OF 

TIME TO COMPLETE DISCOVERY 

Date: February 6, 2006 

Time: 10 am Place: Courtroom 12, 19th Floor 

JOINT MOTION (AND PROPOSED ORDER) FOR EXTENSION OF TIME TO COMPLETE DISCOVERY 

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Plaintiff Continental Insurance Company (“Plaintiff”), and defendant Transatlantic 

Reinsurance Company (“Defendant”) (collectively, the “Parties”), by their attorneys, hereby 

respectfully request this Court for an order extending the time for completion of discovery in the 

above-captioned case. In support of this joint motion, the Parties state as follows: 

1. On October 24, 2005, the Parties submitted a mutually agreed-upon discovery 

schedule to this Court as part of their last Joint Case Management Statement. The Statement 

provided that this schedule could be modified by agreement of the parties. 

2. The Parties then discussed the discovery schedule with this Court during the 

last Case Management conference on October 31, 2005. 

3. Since the last Case Management conference, Plaintiff has taken four 

depositions and the Parties have scheduled an additional three depositions.

4. It has taken longer than the Parties initially anticipated to schedule some of 

the depositions in this case. The witnesses in question, some of whom are no longer employed by 

either of the Parties, sometimes need significant notice to be able to clear a full day for a deposition, 

much less additional time for deposition preparation. 

5. Some of the later stages in the discovery process, such as the preparation of 

expert reports, cannot be completed until certain depositions are conducted. 

6. Accordingly, the Parties have agreed to the following revised discovery 

schedule, which amends the former discovery schedule by moving discovery dates back and by 

adding a deadline for expert rebuttal. Dates in this discovery schedule can be altered only by 

agreement of the parties, or upon motion to this Court: 

Disclosure of Plaintiff’s experts and expert reports; deadline for parties 

to disclose potential fact witnesses in case 

May 5, 2006 

Deadline for deposition of Plaintiff’s experts June 2, 2006 

Disclosure of Defendant’s experts and expert reports June 16, 2006 

Deadline for deposition of Defendant’s experts July 14, 2006 

JOINT MOTION (AND PROPOSED ORDER) FOR EXTENSION OF TIME TO COMPLETE DISCOVERY 

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Deadline for disclosure of the Parties’ expert rebuttal reports August 4, 2006 

Close of fact discovery; dispositive motions due Sept. 1, 2006 

Responses to dispositive motions due Sept. 22, 2006 

Replies in support of dispositive motions due Oct. 16, 2006 

CONCLUSION

For the reasons given above, the Parties respectfully request this Court for an order 

adopting the above schedule for discovery in this case. 

SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP 

By: /s/ James C. Blenko 

Dated: January 31, 2006 

James C. Blenko 

Attorneys For Plaintiff Continental 

Insurance Company 

Dated: January 31, 2006 LORD BISSELL & BROOK LLP 

By: /s/ Kimberly M. Hamm

Kimberly M. Hamm

Attorneys For Defendant 

Transatlantic Reinsurance Company 

111 S. Wacker Drive 

Chicago, IL 60606 

Telephone (312) 443-0700 

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE FOR JOINT MOTION FOR EXTENSION OF TIME TO COMPLETE

DISCOVERY

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PROPOSED ORDER

The Parties’ JOINT MOTION FOR EXTENSION OF TIME TO COMPLETE 

DISCOVERY having been read and considered by this Court, it is hereby ordered that the time for 

completion of discovery in this case shall be extended in accordance with the schedule in the Parties’ 

Joint Motion. 

DATED: ____________________________ __________________________________ Thelton E. Henderson 

 United States District Judge

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE FOR JOINT MOTION FOR EXTENSION OF TIME TO COMPLETE

DISCOVERY

01/31/06

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Thelton E. Henderson

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