Filed: Nov. 04, 2019
Latest Update: Nov. 04, 2019
Summary: ORDER GRANTING IN PART REQUEST TO MODIFY SCHEDULING ORDER (Doc. 95) SHEILA K. OBERTO , Magistrate Judge . On October 22, 2019, Third-Party Plaintiffs/Defendants Leticia Monique Avalos and Fausto Avalos, Defendants Prisoner Transportation Services of America, LLC and Cleveland Robert Wheeler, and Third-Party Defendant Albert T. Gonzalez ("Defendants"), filed a request to modify the scheduling order by extending all deadlines by 90 days. (Doc. 95.) Currently, the non-expert discovery deadlin
Summary: ORDER GRANTING IN PART REQUEST TO MODIFY SCHEDULING ORDER (Doc. 95) SHEILA K. OBERTO , Magistrate Judge . On October 22, 2019, Third-Party Plaintiffs/Defendants Leticia Monique Avalos and Fausto Avalos, Defendants Prisoner Transportation Services of America, LLC and Cleveland Robert Wheeler, and Third-Party Defendant Albert T. Gonzalez ("Defendants"), filed a request to modify the scheduling order by extending all deadlines by 90 days. (Doc. 95.) Currently, the non-expert discovery deadline..
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ORDER GRANTING IN PART REQUEST TO MODIFY SCHEDULING ORDER
(Doc. 95)
SHEILA K. OBERTO, Magistrate Judge.
On October 22, 2019, Third-Party Plaintiffs/Defendants Leticia Monique Avalos and Fausto Avalos, Defendants Prisoner Transportation Services of America, LLC and Cleveland Robert Wheeler, and Third-Party Defendant Albert T. Gonzalez ("Defendants"), filed a request to modify the scheduling order by extending all deadlines by 90 days. (Doc. 95.) Currently, the non-expert discovery deadline is November 15, 2019, the expert discovery deadline is December 31, 2019, the dispositive motions deadline is January 31, 2020, and the trial date is set for July 21, 2020. (Doc. 67.) Defendants note that the depositions of Dustin Hubbard and Cleveland Wheeler still need to be conducted but do not state what other discovery is needed to necessitate a 90-day extension of all deadlines. (See Doc. 95 at 2-3.) Plaintiffs oppose the request. (Docs. 97, 98.)
The Court finds good cause to extend the deadlines in the scheduling order, but not to the extent requested by Defendants. Instead, the Court will extend the non-expert discovery deadline by 30 days for the limited purpose of completing the depositions of Dustin Hubbard and Cleveland Wheeler, and extend the remaining deadlines by approximately 30 days, which will allow the parties adequate time to complete the depositions and incorporate them into their expert discovery.
Accordingly, for good cause shown, the Court GRANTS IN PART Defendants' request and will modify the scheduling order and enlarge the deadlines as follows:
Event Prior Date Continued Date
Non-Expert Discovery Completion November 15, 2019 December 16, 2019
(for limited purpose of
depositions of Dustin Hubbard
and Cleveland Wheeler)
Expert Disclosures November 22, 2019 December 23, 2019
Rebuttal Expert Disclosures December 20, 2019 January 21, 2020
Expert Discovery Completion December 31, 2019 January 30, 2020
Non-Dispositive Motion Filing January 17, 2020 February 18, 2020
Non-Dispositive Motion Hearing February 19, 2020 March 18, 2020
Dispositive Motion Filing January 31, 2020 March 2, 2020
Dispositive Motion Hearing March 17, 2020 April 21, 2020
Settlement Conference January 16, 2020 February 13, 2020
Pretrial Conference May 26, 2020 June 29, 2020, at 2:30
p.m.
Trial July 21, 2020 August 25, 2020, at 8:30
a.m.
IT IS SO ORDERED.