JOINT STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER TO EXTEND PRELIMINARY SCHEDULING ORDER DEADLINE

BARBARA A. McAULIFFE, Magistrate Judge.

Plaintiff United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC" or "Plaintiff") and Defendant Sensient Natural Ingredients LLC (incorrectly identified in the Complaint as "Sensient Natural Ingredients, LLC") ("SNI"), f/k/a Sensient Dehydrated Flavors LLC (incorrectly identified in the Complaint as "Sensient Dehydrated Flavors, LLC"), and successor in interest to Sensient Dehydrated Flavors Company ("Defendant"), through their respective counsel of record, hereby stipulate pursuant to Rule 16 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure as follows:

1. Good Cause to Extend Preliminary Scheduling Order Deadline

The parties come before the Court to seek an extension of the Preliminary Scheduling Order deadline to amend the parties' pleadings by stipulation solely as to the naming of the proper Defendant. Specifically, the parties seek an extension to reach an agreement as to the naming of SNI as the sole Defendant. While the parties have not yet agreed to a stipulation, the parties have met and conferred and documents have been provided outside of the formal discovery process. The parties currently are working on the terms of the stipulation. The EEOC has requested additional time to negotiate a stipulation, and SNI does not oppose a four-week extension (i.e. 28 days) to permit the parties to reach an agreement with respect to the naming of SNI as the sole Defendant and to amend the Complaint accordingly. As such, the parties request that the Court, for good cause, grant the parties' request for an extension of time for the sole purpose of filing a stipulated amendment to the Complaint to name SNI as the sole corporate Defendant.

2. Stipulation to Amend Preliminary Scheduling Order

The parties stipulate that the Preliminary Scheduling Order be amended to reflect the following new deadline:

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

ORDER

For good cause shown, the stipulation to extend the Preliminary Scheduling Order deadline is hereby approved and the new deadline for amendment to the parties' pleadings as set forth in the Preliminary Scheduling Order shall be amended as follows:

IT IS SO ORDERED.