CAN 4:2021cv00866 opinion

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      STIPULATION AND ORDER 
Case No. 4:21-cv-0866-HSG 1 
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ROBERT S. CLARK (CBN 93634)
rclark@parrbrown.com
PARR BROWN GEE & LOVELESS, P.C.
101 South 200 East, Suite 700
Salt Lake City, Utah 84111
Telephone: (801) 532-7840
CHAD S. PEHRSON (CBN 261829)
cpehrson@kba.law 
KUNZLER BEAN & ADAMSON, P.C.
4225 Executive Square, Suite 600
La Jolla, California 92037 
619-371-5511
Attorneys for Plaintiff
BRIAN M. BOYNTON
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General 
ELIZABETH J. SHAPIRO
Deputy Director, Federal Programs Branch 
ALEXANDRA R. SASLAW (SBN 318610) 
Trial Attorney
United States Department of Justice 
Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch 
P.O. Box 883 
Washington, DC 20044 
Phone: (202) 514-4520
alexandra.r.saslaw@usdoj.gov 
Attorneys for Defendants 
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 
BIOSCIENCE ADVISORS, INC.,
Plaintiff,
v.
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND 
EXCHANGE COMMISSION, et al., 
Defendants. 
Civil Action No. 4:21-CV-0866-HSG 
STIPULATION AND ORDER 
REQUESTING EXTENSION OF 
TIME TO FILE JOINT CASE 
MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 
STATEMENT AND CONTINUANCE
OF CASE MANAGEMENT
CONFERENCE
Plaintiff and Defendants (“Parties”), by and through undersigned counsel, hereby submit the 
following Stipulation requesting that the Court enter an order extending the deadline for the Parties 
to file their Joint Case Management Conference Statement until March 8, 2022, and continuing the 
Case Management Conference until March 15, 2022, or another date thereafter.
Pursuant to the Court’s February 8, 2022 Order, ECF No. 33, the Parties have been ordered 
to file a joint case management conference statement by February 22, 2022, and to appear at a case 
management conference on March 1, 2022 to discuss setting an expedited summary judgment 
briefing schedule. The Court’s February 8, 2022 Order also provided Plaintiff with leave to amend 
its complaint to address pleading deficiencies in its fourth cause of action, and ordered that such 
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      STIPULATION AND ORDER 
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amendment must be filed by March 1, 2022. Plaintiff has indicated that it intends to file an amended 
complaint on or before March 1, 2022. 
The Parties believe that Plaintiff’s amended complaint may affect a number of issues that the 
Parties would address in the joint case management statement and at the case management 
conference. For example, depending on the content of the amended complaint, Defendants may 
file a renewed motion to dismiss, or Defendants may decide to move for summary judgment after 
producing the administrative record. Additionally, Plaintiff has indicated that it intends to pursue 
discovery on all of its claims, including amended claim 4. Defendants do not believe that discovery is 
appropriate in this case, but cannot fully address that issue without seeing Plaintiff’s amended 
complaint. Accordingly, the Parties believe that a brief extension and continuance may result in a 
more comprehensive case management statement and a more productive case management 
conference. 
Given that the Plaintiff’s amended complaint is likely to inform the contents of the joint case 
management statement, the Parties respectfully propose that the Court extend the deadline for the 
joint statement until March 8, 2022. Because the case management statement ordinarily “must be 
filed and served at least 7 days before the conference,” see L. Civ. R. 16-10(a), the Parties respectfully 
request that the Court also continue the case management conference until at least March 15, 2022. 
The Parties recognize that that Local Civil Rule 6-1(b) provides that “[a]ny stipulated request . . . 
which affects a hearing or proceeding on this Court’s calendar must be filed no later than 14 days 
before the scheduled event,” and that this request is filed less than 14 days before the scheduled 
conference. L. Civ. R. 6-1(b). The Parties respectfully request relief from this requirement in light 
of the short time between this Court’s February 8, 2022 deadline, and the scheduled date of the case 
management conference. Upon receiving this Court’s order, Plaintiff needed to determine whether 
to file an amended complaint, and the Parties needed time to confer regarding that issue. The first 
date that the Parties were able to confer was Thursday, February 17, 2022, at which time the Parties 
determined that it would be beneficial to seek the extension sought by this motion. 
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      STIPULATION AND ORDER 
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For these reasons, the parties hereby stipulate that, subject to this Court’s approval, the 
Parties shall file a joint case management statement by March 8, 2022, and the Parties shall appear at 
a case management conference on or after March 15, 2022. 
IT IS SO STIPULATED THIS 18TH DAY OF FEBRUARY 2022: 
KUNZLER BEAN & ADAMSON, PC
/s/ Chad S. Pehrson 
Chad S. Pehrson 
KUNZLER BEAN & ADAMSON, P.C.
4225 Executive Square, Suite 600
La Jolla, California 92037 
619-371-5511
cpehrson@kba.law
PARR BROWN GEE & LOVELESS
Robert S. Clark
101 South 200 East, Suite 700
Salt Lake City, Utah 84111
Telephone: (801) 532-7840
rclark@parrbrown.com 
Attorneys for Plaintiff
BRIAN M. BOYNTON
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General 
Civil Division 
ELIZABETH J. SHAPIRO
Deputy Director, Federal Programs Branch
/s/ Alexandra R. Saslaw____ 
ALEXANDRA R. SASLAW
Trial Attorney
United States Department of Justice
Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch
P.O. Box 883
Washington, DC 20044
Phone: (202) 514-4520
alexandra.r.saslaw@usdoj.gov 
Attorneys for Defendants
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      STIPULATION AND ORDER 
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ORDER 
Pursuant to Stipulation, it is ORDERED that: 
1. The Parties’ time to file the joint case management conference statement is extended to
March 8, 2022; and
2. The Case Management Conference currently set for March 1, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. is
continued until March 15, 2022 at 2:00 p.m.
Dated: ___________________ _________________________ 
HAYWOOD S. GILLIAM, JR. 
United States District Judge
2/22/2022
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