Opinion
Case No. C11-01042 LB
11-04-2011
DEBRA SPENCER, Plaintiff, v. AMTRAK and DOES 1 to 5, Defendants.
ROBERT BLUMENTHAL Attorneys for Plaintiff DEBRA SPENCER LOMBARDI, LOPER & CONANT, LLP LAURA C. DELEHUNT Attorneys for Defendant NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION
B. CLYDE HUTCHINSON, State Bar No. 037526
LAURA C. DELEHUNT, State Bar No. 236379
LOMBARDI, LOPER & CONANT, LLP
Lake Merritt Plaza
Attorneys for Defendant
NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER
CORPORATION dba AMTRAK
STIPULATION TO EXTEND TIME TO
MEDIATE AND [PROPOSED] ORDER
The patties hereby stipulate to complete court mediation no later than December 8, 2011, pursuant to Local Rule 6-1. The grounds for the requested extension are as follows:
Plaintiff was deposed on October 26, 2011 and testified that she suffers from Temporomandibular Joint Disorder as a result of the subject accident; this information had not been disclosed in plaintiff's responses to written discovery or in plaintiff's complaint. The parties must obtain plaintiff's medical records with respect to this alleged injury, prior to effectively mediating the case. We have consulted with our court-appointed mediator, Joel Franciosa, and he concurs with this request. All parties have agreed to a new mediation date of December 8, 2011. Additionally, the parties request that the Further Case Management Conference, currently scheduled for December 1, 2011, be re-scheduled accordingly.
ROBERT BLUMENTHAL
Attorneys for Plaintiff
DEBRA SPENCER
LOMBARDI, LOPER & CONANT, LLP
LAURA C. DELEHUNT
Attorneys for Defendant
NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER
CORPORATION
ORDER
The Court, having reviewed the stipulation of the parties to an extension to complete mediation no later than December 8, 2011, and the parties having demonstrated that there is good cause to grant the requested extension to allow for their attainment of critical medical records: Additionally, the court CONTINUES case management conference scheduled for December 1, 2011 to December 15, 2011. An updated case management statement is due by noon on December 12, 2011.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
Judge Laurel Beeler