American Fire & Casualty Company v. Ford Motor Company

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ----oo0oo---- 11

12 AMERICAN FIRE & CASUALTY NO. 2:20-cv-00116-WBS-

COMPANY, KJN

13 Plaintiff, 14 v. 15 FORD MOTOR COMPANY, a Delaware 16 Corporation, and DOES 1 through 25, 17 Defendants. 18 19

20

21 BYRON PAIZS, NO. 2:20-cv-00325-WBS-

KJN

22 Plaintiff, 23 v. 24 FORD MOTOR COMPANY, a Delaware Corporation, and DOES 1 through 25 25,

26 Defendants.

27 28 1 ----oo0oo---- 2 STATUS (PRETRIAL SCHEDULING) ORDER 3 On April 15, 2020, the court ordered that the cases 4 captioned American Fire & Casualty Co. v. Ford Motor Co., No. 5 2:20-cv-00116-WBS-KJN (“American Fire Action”) and Byron Paizs v. 6 Ford Motor Co., No. 2:20-cv-00325-WBS-KJN (“Paizs Action”) be 7 consolidated pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 42(a) 8 for the purposes of fact discovery, expert discovery, and 9 dispositive motion practice because the cases involve common 10 questions of law and fact concerning claims for property…