Opinion
DANIELLE L. OCHS, BECKI D. GRAHAM, OGLETREE, DEAKINS, NASH, SMOAK & STEWART, P.C., San Francisco, CA, TOPPAN PHOTOMASKS, INC. MARC N. BERNSTEIN, WILL B. FITTON, THE BUSINESS LITIGATION GROUP, P.C., San Francisco, CA, Attorneys for Defendant, KEUN TAEK PARK.
AMENDED STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER MODIFYING PRETRIAL PREPARATION ORDER
MAXINE M. CHESNEY, District Judge.
STIPULATION
Plaintiff Toppan Photomasks, Inc. (TPI) and Defendant Keun Taek Park (collectively "the Parties"), have been engaging in settlement talks since the Court issued the June 20, 2014 Stipulation and Order Modifying Trial Prep Order (Dkt. No. 94), and continued progress is being made toward resolving this matter. In order to facilitate further settlement discussions, the Parties stipulate and request that the following dates in the Pretrial Preparation Order (Dkt. No. 53) and Stipulations and Orders Regarding Discovery (Dkt. Nos. 77 & 86 & 94) be modified as follows:
• Non-Expert Discovery Cutoff extended from September 12, 2014 to October 3, 2014;
• Designation of Experts extended from October 2, 2014 to October 24, 2014;
• Designation of Rebuttal Experts extended from October 24, 2014 to November 14, 2014;
• Expert Discovery Cutoff extended from November 14, 2014 to December 5, 2014;
Dispositive Motions filing deadline remains December 19, 2014. The Meet and Confer date (Civil Local Rule 16-10(b)(5)) remains March 3, 2015. The Pretrial Conference date remains April 7, 2015 at 3:00 pm and the Jury Trial date remains April 20, 2015 at 9:00 am, Courtroom 7, 19th Floor.
In addition, to facilitate further settlement discussions, the Parties further stipulate and request that:
(a) all discovery is stayed until September 2, 2014, after which the Parties may not serve new written discovery on each other without mutual agreement or order of the Court; and
(b) the filing of a briefing schedule stipulation and the further briefing ordered by Magistrate Judge Spero in his May 29, 2014 and June 17, 2014 Orders on TPI's Motion for Sanctions be stayed until September 2, 2014, after which date the Parties shall file within eleven days a briefing schedule stipulation.
SO STIPULATED.
ORDER
IT IS SO ORDERED, with the exception of page 1, paragraph (b), which stipulation must be submitted for approval to Magistrate Judge Spero.