Joint Stipulation and Order re Bellwether Schedule

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HUESTON HENNIGAN LLP

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JOHN C. HUESTON (SBN 164921) DOUGLAS J. DIXON (SBN 275389) 523 West 6th Street, Suite 400 Los Angeles, CA 90014 Telephone: (213) 788-4340 Email: jhucston@hueston.com; ddixon@hucston.com

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LIEFF CABRASER HEIMANN & BERNSTEIN, LLP

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

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COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

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WOOLSEY FIRE CASES

Case No. 18STCV08779 I JCCP No. 5000 , Ron. William F. Highberger- Dept. 10

JOINT STIPULATION AND?P'Mil·i~Wi~ ORDER RE BELLWETHER SCHEDULE

FOR FILING IN: Foley, et al. v. Southern Cal~fornia Edison Company, et al., Case No. 18STCV08779

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Defendants Southern California Edison Company and Edison International (collectively, the

2 "Edison Defendants"), Individual Plaintiffs, and Subrogation Plaintiffs, by and through the 3 undersigned counsel, stipulate and agree as follows: WHEREAS, under the current bellwether selection schedule, as set forth in the January 23,

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5 2020 Notice of Ruling, the deadline for parties to submit slates of proposed bellwether plaintiffs is 6 April 7, 2020; the deadline for parties to file oppositions to other parties' proposed slate is April21, 7 2020; and the deadline to file responses to those oppositions is April 28, 2020; WHEREAS, under the current bellwether selection schedule, the Court is to select bellwether

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9 plaintiffs for the first bellwether trial on May 5, 2020, during the regularly-scheduled status 10 conference; 11

WHEREAS, in the Eighteenth Joint Status Conference Report submitted March 12, 2020

12 ahead ofthe scheduled March 17,2020 Status Conference, the Edison Defendants requested that the 13 Court extend the current bellwether selection schedule by approximately one month; 14

WHEREAS, on March 16,2020, the Eighteenth Status Conference was taken off calendar

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WHEREAS, on March 17, 2020, the Presiding Judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court

17 issued an Administrative Order closing the Court until at least April 16, 2020 except for emergency 18 and essential matters; 19

NOW THEREFORE,the Edison Defendants, Individual Plaintiffs, and Subrogation Plaintiffs

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April 17, 2020: Deadline for Edison Defendants to submit report outlining any deficiencies in bellwether pool plaintiffs' required discovery

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April 20, 2020: Deadline forPiaintiffs to respond to Edison Defendants' report

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April21, 2020: Readiness conference (during regularly-scheduled status conference)

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May 5, 2020: Deadline for parties to submit slates of proposed bellwethers

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May 19, 2020: Deadline for.parties to file oppositions to other parties' proposed slates

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May 26, 2020: Deadline for parties to file responses to oppositions -2JOINT STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER RE BELLWETHER SCHEDULE

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June 2, 2020: Court selection of bellwether plaintiffs (during regularly-scheduled

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status conference)

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IT IS SO STIPULATED.

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Dated: March 30, 2020

INDIVIDUAL PLAINTIFFS

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Le:Xi Haz Robert Nelson Reilly Stoler Evan Balian LIEFF CABRASER HEIMANN & BERNSTEIN, LLP

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Alexander Robertson, IV, Esq. ROBERTSON & ASSOCIATES, LLP

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Dated: March 30, 2020

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Craig S. Simon

BERGER KAHN, A LAW CORPORATION

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Maura · alsh Ochoa Waylon Pickett

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GROTEFELD HOFFMAN

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Dated: March 30, 2020

EDISON DEFENDANTS

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John C. ueston Douglas J. Dixon Andrew K. Walsh HUESTON HENNIGAN LLP

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Having reviewed the parties' stipulation, and good cause having been shown

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3 hereby orders that the bellwether selection schedule is modified as follows: 4

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April 17, 2020: Deadline for Edison Defendants to submit report outlining any

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deficiencies in bellwether pool plaintiffs' required discovery

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April 20, 2020: Deadline for Plaintiffs to respond to Edison Defendants' report

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April 21, 2020: Readiness conference (during regularly-scheduled status conference)

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IT IS S. O'JOR f::_....:DE.RED.

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