Order: (1) Setting Zoom Discovery Conference — In re Bank of America California Unemployment Benefits Litigation (Dkt. 401, S.D. Cal. No. 3:21-md-02992)

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An order in In re Bank of America California Unemployment Benefits Litigation, Case No.: 21md2992-GPC (MSB), dated December 24, 2024 and filed 12/24/24 as Document 401. The court sets a Zoom discovery conference on February 6, 2025 to address a dispute regarding call tapes and orders the parties to lodge informal letter briefs of no more than three pages by January 31, 2025. Finding good cause, it continues all remaining case dates by approximately thirty days. Among the new dates, the mandatory settlement conference moves to August 1, 2025 and the final pretrial conference to September 12, 2025 before the Honorable Gonzalo P. Curiel.

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 
 
IN RE: BANK OF AMERICA CALIFORNIA 
UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS LITIGATION 
 
Case No.:  21md2992-GPC (MSB) 
 
ORDER: 
(1) SETTING ZOOM DISCOVERY 
CONFERENCE; AND 
(2) MODIFYING CASE SCHEDULE 
 
Pursuant to discussions at the December 23, 2024, the Court SETS a Zoom 
Discovery Conference on February 6, 2025, at 9:30 a.m. to address a dispute regarding 
call tapes.  No later than January 31, 2025, at 5:00 p.m., the Parties are ORDERED to 
lodge informal letter briefs of no more than three pages outlining their respective 
positions.  The informal letter briefs are to be exchanged between counsel and 
submitted to Judge Berg via e-mail to efile_berg@casd.uscourts.gov.   
The Court finds good cause to CONTINUE all remaining case dates by 
approximately thirty days and ORDERS that the case schedule be modified as follows: 
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All other guidelines in the Court’s Amended Scheduling Order [ECF No. 302] remain in 
place.   
 
IT IS SO ORDERED. 
Dated:  December 24, 2024 
 
 
Event 
Current Date 
New Date 
Expert Designation  
December 27, 2024 
January 27, 2025 
Rebuttal Expert 
Designation 
January 2, 2025 
February 3, 2025 
 
Expert Disclosures 
January 16, 2025 
February 18, 2025 
 
Rebuttal Expert 
Disclosures 
February 13, 2025 
March 14, 2025 
Expert Discovery Cutoff 
March 13, 2025 
April 11, 2025 
Pretrial Motions Cutoff 
April 14, 2025 
May 14, 2025 
Mandatory Settlement 
Conference (“MSC”) 
July 1, 2025, at 9:30 a.m.  
August 1, 2025 at 9:30 
a.m. in the chambers of 
Magistrate Judge Berg 
Confidential MSC 
Statements 
June 24, 2025 
July 25, 2025 
Pretrial Disclosure 
Requirements, Fed. R. Civ. 
P. 26(a)(3) 
July 18, 2025 
August 15, 2025 
Meet and Confer, Local 
Rule 16.1(f)(4) 
July 25, 2025 
August 22, 2025 
Draft Pretrial Conference 
Order to Defense Counsel 
August 1, 2025 
August 29, 2025 
Lodge Final Pretrial 
Conference Order  
August 8, 2025 
September 5, 2025 
Final Pretrial Conference  
August 15, 2025, at 1:30 
p.m.  
September 12, 2025, at 
1:30 p.m. on the calendar 
of the Honorable Gonzalo 
P. Curiel 
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