Filed: Dec. 19, 2014
Latest Update: Dec. 19, 2014
Summary: ORDER CAROL MIRANDO, Magistrate Judge. Before the Court is a Joint Motion for Extension of Time for Defendants to Respond to the Complaint, Extension of Time to Meet and Confer, and Extension of Time for Defendants to File a Surreply ("Motion") (Doc. 34), filed on December 10, 2014. The parties first request that the Court extend the deadline for Defendants to respond to Plaintiffs' Complaint (Doc. 1) until thirty (30) days after the Court rules on the pending Motion for Preliminary Injuncti
Summary: ORDER CAROL MIRANDO, Magistrate Judge. Before the Court is a Joint Motion for Extension of Time for Defendants to Respond to the Complaint, Extension of Time to Meet and Confer, and Extension of Time for Defendants to File a Surreply ("Motion") (Doc. 34), filed on December 10, 2014. The parties first request that the Court extend the deadline for Defendants to respond to Plaintiffs' Complaint (Doc. 1) until thirty (30) days after the Court rules on the pending Motion for Preliminary Injunctio..
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ORDER
CAROL MIRANDO, Magistrate Judge.
Before the Court is a Joint Motion for Extension of Time for Defendants to Respond to the Complaint, Extension of Time to Meet and Confer, and Extension of Time for Defendants to File a Surreply ("Motion") (Doc. 34), filed on December 10, 2014. The parties first request that the Court extend the deadline for Defendants to respond to Plaintiffs' Complaint (Doc. 1) until thirty (30) days after the Court rules on the pending Motion for Preliminary Injunction (Doc. 20). As grounds for this extension, the parties "believe that such an extension will serve the interests of judicial economy and conserve the resources of the parties," because if Defendants were required to respond to the Complaint while the Motion for Preliminary Injunction is pending they would "largely reiterate" the same arguments raised in their opposition to the Motion for Preliminary Injunction (Doc. 29). Doc. 34 at 1. Therefore, the parties contend, the Court's ruling on the Motion for Preliminary Injunction will significantly impact Defendants' response to Plaintiffs' Complaint. Id. at 1-2.
The parties also request that the Court extend the time for completing the case management conference until thirty (30) days after Defendants respond to Plaintiffs' Complaint, and state that such an extension will not affect any other deadlines because neither party intends to seek discovery.1 Id. at 2.
Finally, the parties jointly request that the deadline for Defendants to file a surreply to the Motion for Preliminary Injunction be extended an additional eleven (11) days, up to and including January 9, 2015, because the deadline for Defendants to file their surreply, currently December 29, 2014, falls within a period of time during which counsel for Defendants will be on vacation. Id. Upon review of the Motion, and in light of the joint filing, the Court finds good cause and will grant the extensions requested by the Motion.
ACCORDINGLY, it is hereby
ORDERED:
1. The Joint Motion for Extension of Time for Defendants to Respond to the Complaint, Extension of Time to Meet and Confer, and Extension of Time for Defendants to File a Surreply (Doc. 34) is GRANTED as follows:
a. Within thirty (30) days of the Court ruling on the pending Motion for Preliminary Injunction (Doc. 20), Defendants shall respond to Plaintiffs' Complaint (Doc. 1);
b. Within thirty (30) days of Defendants filing a response to Plaintiffs' Complaint, the parties shall meet and confer for the purpose of filing a joint Case Management Report;
c. On or before January 9, 2015, Defendants collectively may file a surreply, not to exceed five (5) pages in length, to Plaintiffs' reply to Defendants' Opposition to Plaintiffs' Motion for Preliminary Injunction.
DONE and ORDERED.
