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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA EUREKA DIVISION 7 JUNE NEWIRTH, et al., Case No. 16-cv-03991-JSW (RMI)

Plaintiffs,

ORDER RE: DISCOVERY DISPUTE

v. Re: Dkt. No. 182 AEGIS SENIOR COMMUNITIES LLC, Defendant.

13 Now pending before the court is a discovery dispute presented in a jointly filed letter brief (dkt. 182) through which Defendants request that the court delay the further depositions of Plaintiffs’ expert witnesses, Cristina Flores and Dale Schroyer, as well as the inspection of a Discrete Event Simulation software program called MedModel, until August of this year due to the in-person and travel-related restrictions caused by the current global pandemic. Plaintiffs on the other hand assert that no delay is necessary as the depositions and inspection can continue by remote means. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 30(b)(4) allows for the taking of depositions by remote means on stipulation of the parties, or by order of the court, and “[t]his court…