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Parties Involved:
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Defendant
Walter Sims
Plaintiff

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36124607v1 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 the yet-to-be issued award 

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 May 16, 2016.

Responsive Briefs shall be filed by June 13, 2016.

Trial Date (1/2 Day Bench Trial) set for July 29, 2016 at 9:00 a.m.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 13, 2016

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