Order Re: Brian Kabala's Requests

[ECF Nos. 92, 93, 94]

JENNIFER A. DORSEY, District Judge.

In a lengthy order on October 23, 2017, I gave defendant/counterclaimant Brian Kabala until November 14, 2017, to file an amended counterclaim.1 Kabala, who has been participating in this case in a pro se capacity, has retained counsel. Counsel now asks for an extension of that deadline, alternatively asks for the ability to file an amended counterclaim on the deadline but amend again once counsel gets up to speed, and also asks the court to stay the discovery deadlines until the parties can negotiate new ones.2

I find good cause to extend the deadline and excusable neglect for the delay in asking for the extension, so I grant the request to extend the November 14, 2017, deadline. Kabala did file a placeholder amended counterclaim on yesterday's deadline. To keep the record cleaner, I strike that amended counterclaim [ECF No. 96] and deny the alternative request for permission to file a second amended counterclaim [ECF No. 93]. Kabala has until January 20, 2018, to file a counseled first amended counterclaim.

The issue of the discovery stay is more appropriately addressed to the magistrate judge. But because the defendant packaged all three of these requests into a single document (see LR IC 2-2(b)("For each type of relief requested or purpose of the document, a separate document must be filed . . .")), the request to stay discovery could not be cleanly referred to the magistrate judge. Accordingly, I deny this request to stay discovery without prejudice to the defendant's ability to file a separate motion with this singular request for the magistrate judge to rule on.

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that: