Legal Question in Civil Litigation in California

Check with the plaintiff's attorney if he still wants to take your deposition. He probably believes that since you are "out" of the case you may tell him information that will be harmful to the other defendants so that he can demand more at the mediation [which is a lengthy settlement conference].

I do not know that much about BK, but I believe claims of fraud are not dismissed by going through BK.

If they settle, your deposition will be cancelled, but mediation is not always successful and sometimes it takes multiple sessions with further discovery in between to narrow the issues being mediated. And of course if the mediation is a total failure, they will want to actively proceed with the case. So they will keep your deposition "on calendar" unless and until they settle.

As for the BK issue. As you probably know, but others who read this answer may not, claims of fraud are NOT automatically preserved in a bankruptcy, unless there is already a judgment on the fraud claim. If the creditor is not a judgment creditor on a fraud claim, but rather the plaintiff in a lawsuit for fraud, they must transfer the case to the Bankrutpcy Court as a Bankruptcy Adversarial Proceeding and obtain a judgment there on the fraud claim. Otherwise the fraud claim is discharged like any other.