STIPULATION TO MODIFY THE PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER

JENNIFER L. THURSTON, Magistrate Judge.

Plaintiff Trevor Weeks and Defendant Union Pacific Railroad Company submit the following stipulation to modify the Court's pretrial Scheduling Order. (Doc. No. 11).

On January 23, 2014, the Court issued a Scheduling Order with deadlines for non-expert and expert discovery. (Doc. No. 11). Due to health concerns of Plaintiff's counsel, the parties have been delayed in discovery regarding the facts in this action. The parties have been unable to schedule depositions in this case that are critical to determining whether this case can be disposed of either through mediation or summary judgment. The deadline to complete non-expert discovery is October 31, 2014, and the parties have been unable to take depositions yet. The parties will be prejudiced if they are unable to take depositions in this case. The parties are meeting and conferring about deposition dates in October and November 2014.

The parties request the following modifications to the pretrial Scheduling Order:

Non-expert discovery continued from October 31, 2014 to December 31, 2014 Expert Discovery continued from January 12, 2015 to April 30, 2015

These changes do not affect the trial date, or any other pretrial deadlines, such as the settlement conference and summary judgment deadlines. The parties have not made any prior requests to modify the pretrial schedule order.

ORDER

Before the Court is the stipulation of counsel to extend the deadlines related to non-expert and expert discovery. (Doc. 21) The Court is aware of the difficulties of Plaintiff's counsel in recent months (Docs. 18, 19, 20) and, based thereon, will GRANT the stipulation. The scheduling order is amended as follows:

1. All non-expert discovery SHALL be completed no later than December 31, 2015;

2. All expert discovery SHALL be completed no later than April 30, 2015;

No other deadlines set forth in the scheduling order are authorized to be amended. Further, counsel are advised that no further requests to modify the scheduling order will be entertained absent a showing of exceptional good caused. They are urged in the strongest of terms to complete the needed discovery as soon as possible.

IT IS SO ORDERED.