Park Village Apartments Tenants Association et al v. Mortimer Howard Trust et al

Filing 102

STIPULATION AND ORDER re 99 Joint Stipulation to Modify Trial Schedule filed by Shirley Smith, Lawrence Lee, Cornelius Weekley, Foster Reuben, Patricia Johnson, Alison Wright, Anahid Issahakian, William Foster, Martin Koch, Park Village Apartments Tenants Association, Maria Lillian Sanchez. Non-expert Discovery due by 9/7/2012. Dispositive Motions due by 10/9/2012. Final Pretrial Conference set for 1/22/2013 02:00 PM in Courtroom E, 15th Floor, San Francisco. Jury Selectio n set for 2/11/2013 08:30 AM in Courtroom E, 15th Floor, San Francisco before Magistrate Judge Elizabeth D. Laporte. Jury Trial set for 2/11/2013 through 2/13/2013 08:30 AM in Courtroom E, 15th Floor, San Francisco before Magistrate Judge Elizabeth D. Laporte. Signed by Judge Elizabeth D Laporte on 8/1/2012. (kns, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 8/6/2012)

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 BAY AREA LEGAL AID LISA GREIF, State Bar No. 214537 NAOMI YOUNG, State Bar No. 105041 ROBERT P. CAPISTRANO, State Bar No. 70382 1735 Telegraph Avenue Oakland, California 94612 Telephone: 510-663-4744 Facsimile: 510-663-4740 Email: lgreif@baylegal.org nyoung@baylegal.org bcapistrano@baylegal.org NATIONAL HOUSING LAW PROJECT JAMES R. GROW, State Bar No. 83548 KENT QIAN, State Bar No. 264944 703 Market St. Suite 2000 San Francisco, CA 94103 Telephone: 415-546-7000 Facsimile: 415-546-7007 Email: jgrow@nhlp.org kqian@nhlp.org Attorneys for Plaintiffs PARK VILLAGE APARTMENTS TENANTS ASSOCIATION, FOSTER, et al. E-FILED 15 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 PARK VILLAGE APARTMENTS TENANTS ASSOCIATION, WILLIAM FOSTER, SHIRLEY SMITH, ANAHID ISSAHAKIAN, PATRICIA JOHNSON, MARTIN KOCH, LAWRENCE LEE, FOSTER REUBEN, MARIA LILLIAN SANCHEZ, ALISON WRIGHT and CORNELIUS WEEKLEY, Case No. C-09-4780 EDL STIPULATION TO MODIFY TRIAL PREPARATION SCHEDULE AND TRIAL; [PROPOSED] ORDER 23 24 Plaintiffs, 25 v. 26 MORTIMER HOWARD TRUST, MORTIMER R. HOWARD, 27 28 Defendants. Request to Modify Trial Preparation Schedule and Trial; [Proposed] Order (C-09-4780EDL) 1 Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 16(b)(4), Plaintiffs, PARK VILLAGE 2 APARTMENT TENANTS ASSOCIATION, et al. (Plaintiffs) and Defendants, MORTIMER 3 HOWARD TRUST and MORTIMER HOWARD (Defendants), in the above-entitled action, by and 4 through respective counsel, hereby request that the Parties’ Stipulation to Modify Trial Preparation 5 Schedule and Trial and the Court Order dated June 11, 2012 (Document #96) be modified to 6 accommodate the ongoing settlement discussions between the parties. The current Order establishes 7 the following schedule: 8 Non-expert discovery cut-off: August 14, 2012 9 Initial expert disclosure deadline: September 28, 2012 10 Rebuttal expert disclosure: October 12, 2012 11 Expert discovery cut-off: October 31, 2012 12 Dispositive motion filing deadline: August 28, 2012 13 Hearing of dispositive motions: October 2, 2012 14 Pre-trial conference: December 18, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. 15 Trial: January 14, 2013 at 8:30 a.m. 16 A Settlement Conference is currently scheduled for August 7, 2012 at 10:30 a.m. with 17 Magistrate Judge Beeler. Four continuances of the Settlement Conference have been granted by the 18 Court in recognition of the parties continuing progress toward a negotiated settlement. In an effort 19 to continue the discussions and build on the progress already made, the parties are also requesting in 20 a separately filed request that the currently scheduled settlement conference be continued. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 As part of the productive settlement negotiations to date, Defendants have propounded discovery on Plaintiffs with the goal of resolving some factual issues and with the hope of bringing final resolution to the case. In order to continue the substantial progress made to date, the parties propose the following modification of the trial preparation and trial schedule: Non-expert discovery cut-off: September 7, 2012 Initial expert disclosure deadline: October 12, 2012 Rebuttal expert disclosure: October 26, 2012 Expert discovery cut-off: November 9, 2012 Request to Modify Trial Preparation Schedule and Trial; [Proposed] Order (C-09-4780EDL) 1 1 Dispositive motion filing deadline: October 9, 2012 2 Hearing of dispositive motions: November 13, 2012 3 Pre-trial conference: January 22, 2013, 2:00 p.m. TBD by Court’s schedule 4 Trial: February 11, 2013, 8:30 a.m. TBD by Court’s schedule 5 6 RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED, BAY AREA LEGAL AID Lisa S. Greif Naomi Young Robert Capistrano 7 8 NATIONAL HOUSING LAW PROJECT James R. Grow Kent Qian 9 10 11 Dated: August 1, 2012 12 13 14 SWIHART AND ASSOCIATES Thomas M. Swihart 15 16 /s/ Lisa S. Greif Lisa S. Greif Attorneys for Plaintiffs Dated: August 1, 2012 17 /s/ Thomas M. Swihart Thomas M. Swihart Attorney for Defendants 18 19 20 21 I hereby attest that I have on file all holograph signatures for any signatures indicated by a "conformed" signature (/s/) within this efiled document. 22 23 Dated: August 1, 2012 By: /s/ Lisa S. Greif LISA S. GREIF Attorney for Plaintiffs 24 25 26 27 28 Request to Modify Trial Preparation Schedule and Trial; [Proposed] Order (C-09-4780EDL) 2 1 2 ORDER 3 4 Good cause appearing therefore, IT IS SO ORDERED. S RT 12 Jud ER 13 N F D IS T IC T O R C 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Request to Modify Trial Preparation Schedule and Trial; [Proposed] Order (C-09-4780EDL) 3 R NIA beth D ge Eliza H 11 e . Laport NO 10 FO 9 D RDERE IS SO O FIED ____________________________________ IT ODI A DISTRICT JUDGE UNITED STATES S M LI 8 August 1, 2012 DATED:_______________ UNIT ED 7 RT U O 6 S DISTRICT TE C TA A 5

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