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`UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
`SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
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` Case No.: 18cv2864-CAB(BLM)
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`ORDER GRANTING IN PART JOINT
`MOTION TO CONTINUE DISCOVERY
`DATES AND MANDATORY SETTLEMENT
`CONFERENCE
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`[ECF No. 115]
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`BELL NORTHERN RESEARCH, LLC,
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`Plaintiff,
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`v.
`LG ELECTRONICS INC., LG ELECTRONICS
`U.S.A., INC., and LG ELECTRONICS MOBILE
`RESEARCH U.S.A., LLC,
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`Defendants.
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`On March 20, 2020, the parties filed a Joint Motion to Extend the Case Management
`Order. ECF No. 115. The parties seek to continue all remaining dates set in the Court’s February
`5, 2020 scheduling order [see ECF No. 103] and February 24, 2020 order setting the mandatory
`settlement conference [see ECF No. 106]. Id. Though the parties filed jointly to continue the
`dates, they disagree on the correct length of continuance. Id. After considering the parties’
`arguments and consulting with District Judge Cathy A. Bencivengo, the Court GRANTS the
`parties’ joint motion and sets the following dates:
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`Deadline
`Fact Discovery Completion
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`Current Date
`April 17, 2020
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` New Date
`June 8, 2020
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`Bell Northern Research, LLC, Exhibit 2024, Page 1 of 3
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` New Date
`Current Date
`June 8, 2020
`April 17, 2020
`June 29, 2020
`May 8, 2020
`July 6, 2020
`May 22, 2020
`August 17, 2020
`July 2, 2020
`September 21, 2020
`July 31, 2020
`October 5, 2020
`August 28, 2020
`September 17, 2020 October 26, 2020
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`Deadline
`Disclosure of Experts
`Supplementary Expert Disclosure
`Opening Expert Reports
`Rebuttal Expert Reports
`Expert Discovery Completion
`Dispositive/ Daubert Motions
`Oppositions to Disposition/ Daubert
`Motions
`Replies to Disposition/ Daubert Motions September 25, 2020 November 2, 2020
`Pretrial Disclosures
`November 2, 2020
`No Change
`L.R. 16.1(f)(4) Meeting of Counsel
`November 9, 2020
`No Change
`Plaintiff’s Proposed Pretrial Order due
`November 16, 2020
`No Change
`to Defendants
`Motions in limine
`Oppositions to Motions in limine
`Proposed Final Pretrial Conference
`Order
`Final Pretrial Conference
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`November 16, 2020
`November 23, 2020
`November 23, 2020
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`No Change
`No Change
`No Change
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`November 30, 2020
`at 9:00 a.m.
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`No Change
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`Trial
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`December 14, 2020
`at 8:45 a.m.
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`No Change
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`All other guidelines and requirements remain as previously set. See ECF Nos. 103, 106.
`Finally, on February 24, 2020, the Court scheduled a Mandatory Settlement Conference (“MSC”)
`in this matter for April 28, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. ECF No. 106. The order required the personal
`attendance of all "parties, adjusters for insured defendants, and other representatives of a party
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`having full and complete authority to enter into a binding settlement, as well as the principal
`attorneys responsible for the litigation." Id. at 2, see ECF No. 103.
`On March 17, 2020, Chief Judge Larry A. Burns issued an Order in response to the COVID-
`19 public emergency (“CJO #18”) to protect public safety and prevent the spread of COVID-19.
`See CJO #18 at ¶ 9. Accordingly, the Court CONVERTS the MSC to telephonic for all attendees.
`To facilitate the telephonic format of this conference, the Court ORDERS the following:
`1. The Court will begin the MSC on its teleconference line. Counsel shall use the dial-
`in information that will be filed by the Court as a separate notice on the docket. The notice
`will be restricted to case participants only.
`2. Counsel and parties or client representatives with full settlement authority for each
`party must be immediately available by telephone for the duration of the MSC.
`3. All participants shall be prepared to devote their full attention to this proceeding
`as if they were attending in person, i.e., cannot be driving while speaking to the Court.
`4. Throughout the conference, the Court will initiate separate, confidential calls with
`Plaintiff and Defendants, respectively. Each party must provide the Court with a single phone
`number to use to initiate these calls, with both counsel and parties or representatives already
`conferenced in and ready to engage in settlement discussions. Counsel must email the Court at
`efile_major@casd.uscourts.gov no later than April 22, 2020 to provide each party’s
`preferred phone number for the MSC and any other necessary call-in information for the Court
`(i.e., conference line passcodes).
`5. Failure to participate may result in the imposition of sanctions. All other deadlines
`and requirements remain as previously set except as explicitly modified by this order. See ECF
`Nos. 103, 106.
`IT IS SO ORDERED.
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`Dated: 3/24/2020
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`Bell Northern Research, LLC, Exhibit 2024, Page 3 of 3
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