STIPULATION AND ORDER FOR A SECOND EXTENSION OF TIME FOR DEFENDANT'S RESPONSE TO PLAINTIFF'S OPENING BRIEF

(Doc. 20)

SHEILA K. OBERTO, Magistrate Judge.

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED, by and between the parties, through their respective counsel of record, that Defendant shall have an extension of time of 14 additional days to respond to Plaintiff's opening brief. The current due date is May 4, 2018. The new due date will be May 18, 2018.

There is good cause for this request. Since the granting of Defendant's previous request for a 35-day extension of time, Defendant's counsel had been diligently addressing her full workload. In addition, during the weekend of March 30, 2018, Defendant's counsel had a serious personal emergency and took multiple days of leave to address and recover from the emergency and continues to take leave intermittently for treatment. Defendant's counsel is continuing to address and prioritize the backlog of cases that she could not address while on leave.

Thus, Defendant is respectfully requesting additional time up to and including May 18, 2018, to fully review the record and research the issues presented by Plaintiff's opening brief in this case. This request is made in good faith with no intention to unduly delay the proceedings.

ORDER

Pursuant to the parties' above second "Stipulation for Extension of Time" for Defendant to file the response to Plaintiff's Opening Brief (Doc. 20), IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Defendant has until May 18, 2018, to submit a response to Plaintiff's Opening Brief. All other dates in the Scheduling Order (Doc. 6) shall be extended accordingly.

IT IS SO ORDERED.