Poipao v. County of El Dorado

• Court: District Court, E.D. California
• Decided: November 14, 2024
• Docket: 2:23-cv-01265
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

1 Brittany Rupley (SBN 276208) PORTER LAW GROUP, INC. 2 11335 Gold Express Drive, Suite 100 Gold River, California 95670 3 Telephone: 916-381-7868 4 Facsimile: 916-381-7880 Email: brupley@porterlaw.com 5 John L. Boze (SBN 191846) 6 LAW OFFICE OF JOHN L. BOZE A Professional Law Corporation 7 400 Capitol Mall, Suite 1850 8 Sacramento, California 95814 Telephone: (916) 822-8700 9 Facsimile: (916) 737-5658 Email: john@bozelaw.net 10 Attorneys for Plaintiffs ANTONIO POIPAO AND 11 LINDA POIPAO 12 Andrew T. Caulfield (SBN 238300) 13 Joe Little (SBN 322179) CAULFIELD LAW FIRM 14 1101 Investment Blvd., Suite120 15 El Dorado Hills, CA 95762 Tel: (916) 933-3200 16 Fax: (916) 605-4075 Andrew@caulfieldlawfirm.com 17 Joe@caulfieldlawfirm.com Attorneys for Defendant 18 COUNTY OF EL DORADO 19

20 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 21 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 22 ANTONIO POIPAO and LINDA POIPAO, CASE NO. 2:23-cv-01265-CKD

23 Plaintiffs,

24 STIPULATED REQUEST TO MODIFY vs. PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER; 25 [PROPOSED ORDER] COUNTY OF EL DORADO, 26 Defendant. 27 1 Pursuant to Local Rule 143 and Federal Rule of Civil Procedure (FRCP) 16(b)(4), Plaintiffs, 2 ANTONIO POIPAO and LINDA POIPAO (hereinafter Plaintiffs), and Defendant, COUNTY OF EL 3 DORADO (hereinafter Defendant) (collectively “Parties”) by and through the undersigned counsel, 4 hereby stipulate and request this Court to issue an Order to modify the Initial Pretrial Scheduling 5 Order (ECF No. 27) (hereinafter “Initial Pretrial Scheduling Order” or “Pretrial Order”) for case 2:23- 6 cv-01265-CKD, by extending the dates for discovery and related deadlines by approximately one- 7 hundred and eighty (180) days from the dates given in the Pretrial Order. 8 FRCP 16(b)(4) allows a court to modify a scheduling order upon a showing of “good cause.” 9 According to the Ninth Circuit Court, the “good cause” standard required is primarily concerned with 10 the diligence taken by the party seeking the extension. Johnson v. Mammoth Recreations, Inc., 975 11 F.2d 604, 609 (9th Cir. 1992). A court may modify the scheduling order should the given deadlines 12 not be reasonably able to be met, despite diligent efforts. Jackson v. Laureate, Inc., 186 F.R.D. 605, 13 608 (E.D. CA 1999). 14 Here, both the Plaintiffs and the Defendant seek to amend the pretrial order. The Parties have 15 been diligent in seeking discovery. For instance, a site visit to the property in question has already 16 been accomplished. Initial disclosures have been exchanged, and two sets of written discovery have 17 been exchanged. Despite this, the Parties require additional time to complete discovery. Indeed, in 18 response to Plaintiffs’ Requests for Production of Documents, Defendant has produced over 14,000 19 pages of documents to Plaintiffs (with another 15 banker boxes expected to be added thereto, which 20 need to be viewed in-person), and Plaintiffs’ counsel requires additional time to review these 21 documents, some of which are believed to date back to the 1960s, and provide them to the experts for 22 further analysis, and to identify witnesses for deposition(s). Furthermore, the Parties are currently 23 meeting and conferring on the adequacy of served discovery responses, and have agreed to continue 24 working through those issues, but will require more time to do so. Furthermore, because the nature of 25 this case is one for alleged inverse condemnation arising from a mudslide following significant 26 rainfall, Plaintiffs have been awaiting the rainy season(s) in order to collect real-time data relative to 27 rainfall/drainage, and its effect on the real properties in question. 1 Under the current Pretrial Order, the non-expert discovery cut off is January 10, 2025. This 2 gives the Parties less than three months to finish non-expert discovery, where thousands of pages of 3 documents have been produced and still need to be reviewed, where depositions have not yet been 4 scheduled, and not all percipient witnesses have been identified. Despite diligent efforts by the Parties, 5 the remainder of time left open for discovery under the Pretrial Order is not sufficient to allow the 6 Parties to complete significant, remaining discovery in this case and attempts to informally resolve 7 their disagreements about the substance of discovery responses that are still at issue. Therefore, an 8 extension of the discovery deadline is warranted. 9 Since this Stipulated Request to Modify the Pretrial Order is supported by good cause, the 10 parties hereby respectfully request that this Court modify the Pretrial Order by extending the fact and 11 expert discovery deadlines in its Pretrial Order approximately 180 days from the dates given in the 12 Pretrial Order. This would result in the following new deadlines: 13 14 Non-Expert Discovery: July 14, 2025 15 Expert Disclosures: July 1, 2025 16 Rebuttal Expert Disclosures: August 15, 2025 17 Expert Discovery: September 12, 2025 18 Law and Motion (except discovery): November 28, 2025 19 20 All other deadlines in the Pretrial Order remain unchanged. 21 22 23 Dated: October, 29, 2024 PORTER LAW GROUP, INC.

24 By: ________/s/____________________ 25 Brittany Rupley 26 Attorneys for Plaintiff ANTONIO POIPAO AND LINDA 27 POIPAO 1 2 3 Dated: October 29, 2024 CAULFIELD LAW FIRM 4 /s/ __ Andrew T. Caulfield 5 Attorneys for Defendant ‘ County of El Dorado

7 8 ORDER 9 10 Pursuant to the Stipulation regarding the parties’ request to modify the pretrial scheduling 11 || order, and good cause appearing, the Court approves the Stipulation and modifies the pretrial 12 || scheduling order (ECF No. 27) as follows: 13 e Non-expert discovery shall be completed by July 14, 2025; 14 e Any expert witnesses shall be disclosed by July 1, 2025; 15 e Any rebuttal expert disclosures shall be made by August 15, 2025; 16 e All expert discovery shall be completed by September 12, 2025; 17 e All law and motion, except as to discovery-related matters, shall be completed (1.« 18 heard) by November 28, 2025; and 19 e All other deadlines in the pretrial scheduling order remain unchanged. 20 IT IS SO ORDERED. ry A See i 4 AT A if [<4 {pm 31 || Dated: November 13, 2024 AAT Pe A. / CAROLYN K. DELANEY 22 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 23 24 25 5, poip.1265.24 26 27 28