Wehner v. Genentech, Inc.

Opinion

1 Ronald S. Kravitz (SBN 129704) MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP Kolin C. Tang (SBN 279834) 2 WILLIAM G. GAEDE, III (136184) MILLER SHAH LLP wgaede@mwe.com 3 Embarcadero Center, Suite 1650 3 415 Mission Street, Suite 5600 San Francisco, CA 94111 San Francisco, CA 94105-2533 Telephone: (866) 540-5505 4 Telephone: (650) 815-7435 Facsimile: (866) 300-7367 Email: rskravitz@millershah.com 5 MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP kctang@millershah.com MARGARET H. WARNER (Pro Hac Vice) 6 mwarner@mwe.com Attorneys for Plaintiff 500 North Capitol Street, NW 7 Washington, DC 20001-1531 [Additional Counsel Listed on Signature Telephone: (202) 756-8000 Page] 8 MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP 9 J.CHRISTIAN NEMETH (222271) jcnemeth@mwe.com 10 444 West Lake Street, Suite 4000 Chicago, IL 60606-0029 11 Telephone: (312) 984 3292 12 Attorneys for Genentech, Inc., and the U.S. Roche DC Fiduciary Committee 13 14 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 15 IN AND FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 16 SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 17 MATTHEW WEHNER, Individually Case No. 3:20-CV-06894 RS 18 and as a representative of a class of similarly situated persons, on behalf of STIPULATION AND ORDER TO MODIFY 19 the U.S. ROCHE 401(K) SAVINGS SCHEDULING ORDER PLAN, 20 Hon. Richard Seeborg Plaintiff, 21 v. 22 GENENTECH, INC., the U.S. ROCHE 24 Defendants. 25 26 27 28 2 Pursuant to Rule 16(b), the parties have, through counsel, stipulated to the filing of this 3 motion to ask the Court to Order that the scheduling order entered on June 6, 2022 (ECF No. 87), 4 as amended on September 1, 2022 (ECF No. 93), September 13, 2022 (ECF No. 95), September 5 22, 2022 (ECF No. 99), and November 17, 2022 (ECF No. 105), and the Case Management 6 Scheduling Order entered on October 6, 2022 (ECF No. 103), as amended November 17, 2022 7 (ECF No. 105) be extended as follows: 8 Event New Dates 9 Deadline for all Supplemental March 24, 2023 10 and Rebuttal Expert Reports 11 Close of Expert Discovery April 28, 2023 12 Deadline for filing of May 29, 2023 13 dispositive motions and Daubert motions 14 Deadline to oppose dispositive June 28, 2023 15 motions and Daubert motions 16 17 Deadline to file replies in July 12, 2023 18 support of dispositive motions and Daubert motions 19 20 Trial Setting Conference N/A 21 22 23 Final Pretrial Conference October 11, 2023 24 25 Trial Date October 30, 2023 26 27 28 1 “The district court is given broad discretion in supervising the pretrial phase of litigation.” 2 Johnson v. Mammoth Recreations, Inc., 975 F.2d 604, 607 (9th Cir. 1992) (citation and internal 3 quotation marks omitted). Pursuant to Rule 16(b)(4), “[a] schedule may be modified only for good 4 cause and with the judge’s consent.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 16(b)(4). 5 Good cause exists for this extension. The parties have agreed to private mediation in this 6 matter. Mediation was initially set for January 5, 2023, but scheduling issues have arisen, and the 7 mediation is now set for February 1, 2023. In efforts to ensure as successful an attempt be made at 8 mediation as possible, the parties have agreed to the extension of the current case deadlines, 9 including the currently set trial date, will allow both parties to focus on mediation and avoid 10 additional litigation expense. The parties will continue to work together diligently to complete 11 discovery and briefing in this matter if unable to resolve the claims through mediation. 12 For these reasons, the parties ask the Court to extend the deadlines as noted above. 13 14 MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP 15 Dated: November 18, 2022 By: ___/s/ William G. Gaede, III____ 16 WILLIAM G. GAEDE, III (136184) wgaede@mwe.com 17 415 Mission Street, Suite 5600 San Francisco, CA 94105-2533 18 Telephone: (650) 815-7435 19 MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP MARGARET H. WARNER (Pro Hac Vice) 20 mwarner@mwe.com 500 North Capitol Street, NW 21 Washington, DC 20001-1531 Telephone: (202) 756-8000 22 MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP 23 J.CHRISTIAN NEMETH (222271) jcnemeth@mwe.com 24 444 West Lake Street, Suite 4000 Chicago, IL 60606-0029 25 Telephone: (312) 984 3292 26 Dated: November 18, 2022 MILLER SHAH LLP 27 By: /s/ Kolin C. Tang_____ 28 Ronald S. Kravitz (SBN 129704) 1 Kolin C. Tang (SBN 279834) MILLER SHAH LLP 2 3 Embarcadero Center, Suite 1650 San Francisco, CA 94111 3 Telephone: (866) 540-5505 Email: rskravitz@millershah.com 4 kctang@millershah.com 5 James E. Miller Laurie Rubinow 65 Main Street 7 Chester, CT 06412 Telephone: (866) 540-5505 8 Email: jemiller@millershah.com lrubinow@millershah.com 9 James C. Shah 10 Alec J. Berin MILLER SHAH LLP 11 1845 Walnut Street, Suite 806 Philadelphia, PA 19103 12 Telephone: (866) 540-5505 Email: jcshah@millershah.com 13 ajberin@millershah.com 14 Monique Olivier OLIVIER & SCHREIBER LLP 15 475 14th Street, Suite 250 Oakland, CA 94612 16 Telephone: (415) 484-0980 Email: Monique@osclegal.com 17 Attorneys for Plaintiff 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 2 IT IS ORDERED. The expert deadlines are extended as follows: 3 4 b. On or before March 24, 2023, parties will designate their supplemental and rebuttal 5 experts in accordance with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(a)(2). 6 7 c.On or before April 28, 2023, all discovery of expert witnesses pursuant to Federal Rule 8 of Civil Procedure 26(b)(4) shall be completed. 9 PRETRIAL MOTIONS. 10 All Daubert and dispositive pretrial motions must be filed and served pursuant to Civil Local Rule 11 12 7 on or before May 29, 2023. Oppositions to dispositive motions are to be filed on or before June 13 28, 2023. Replies to dispositive motions are to be filed on or before July 12, 2023. All pretrial 14 motions shall be heard no later than July 27, 2023. Each party is limited to one motion for 15 summary judgment absent leave of Court. The Court encourages the participation at oral argument 16 of lawyers who are early in their professional career (e.g., 0-10 years of experience). 17 19 The final pretrial conference will be held on October 11, 2023 at 10:00 20 a.m., in Courtroom 3, 17th Floor, United States Courthouse, 450 Golden Gate Avenue, San 21 Francisco, California. Each party or lead counsel who will try the case shall attend personally. 22 24 A bench trial shall commence on October 30, 2023 at 9:00 a.m., in Courtroom 3, 17th Floor, 25 United States Courthouse, 450 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, California. 26 27 28 1 Dated: _D__e_ce_m__b_e_r _8_, 2022 2 3 ______________________________ Chief United States District Judge 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28