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Curley v. Stewart Title Guaranty Company, 2:18-cv-9-FtM-99UAM. (2019)

Court: District Court, M.D. Florida Number: infdco20190212856 Visitors: 8
Filed: Feb. 11, 2019
Latest Update: Feb. 11, 2019
Summary: ORDER DOUGLAS N. FRAZIER , Magistrate Judge . This matter comes before the Court upon review of Plaintiff's Unopposed Motion to Extend the Discovery Deadline to Complete Depositions and Mediation Deadline filed on January 30, 2019 and Defendant's Unopposed Motion for Enlargement of Time to File Dispositive Motions filed on February 1, 2019. Docs. 34, 36. For the reasons stated below the motions are granted. Rule 16 requires a showing of good cause for modification of a court's scheduling
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ORDER

This matter comes before the Court upon review of Plaintiff's Unopposed Motion to Extend the Discovery Deadline to Complete Depositions and Mediation Deadline filed on January 30, 2019 and Defendant's Unopposed Motion for Enlargement of Time to File Dispositive Motions filed on February 1, 2019. Docs. 34, 36. For the reasons stated below the motions are granted.

Rule 16 requires a showing of good cause for modification of a court's scheduling order. Fed. R. Civ. P. 16(b)(4). "The diligence of the moving party should be considered in determining whether there is good cause to extend a deadline." Jozwiak v. Stryker Corp., No. 6:09-cv-1985-Orl-19GJK, 2010 WL 743834, at *2 (M.D. Fla. Feb. 26, 2010). In other words, the moving party must demonstrate it could not meet the deadline despite its diligent efforts. Sosa v. Airprint Sys., Inc., 133 F.3d 1417, 1418 (11th Cir. 1998); Idearc Media Corp. v. Kimsey & Assocs., P.A., No. 807-CV-1024-T-17EAJ, 2009 WL 413531, at *2 (M.D. Fla. Feb. 18, 2009). District courts have broad discretion (1) when managing their cases, including discovery and scheduling; and (2) in applying their local rules. Johnson v. Bd. of Regents of Univ. of Ga., 263 F.3d 1234, 1269 (11th Cir. 2001); see Reese v. Herbert, 527 F.3d 1253, 1267-68 (11th Cir. 2008); Johnson v. England, 350 F. App'x 314, 315-16 (11th Cir. 2009).

Plaintiff requests an extension of time to complete depositions1 and an extension of the mediation deadline for thirty days, until March 6, 2019. Doc. 34 at 1-3; see Doc. 21 at 2. Plaintiff states that delays in obtaining written discovery responses has resulted in Plaintiff being unable to conduct all desired depositions and Defendant is still seeking to continue its deposition of Plaintiff. Doc. 34 at 2-3. Due to the delay in completing depositions, the parties have not been in a position to schedule mediation. Id. at 3. Defendant states that due to the delay in discovery and completing depositions, the parties need more time to file dispositive motions, and requests a thirty-day extension of that deadline until March 6, 2019. Doc. 36 at 2. The Amended Case Management and Scheduling Order entered October 26, 2018 set the discovery deadline for January 3, 2019,2 the mediation deadline for February 4, 2019, dispositive motions deadline of February 11, 2019 and a trial term beginning July 1, 2019. Doc. 21 at 1-2. The Court finds good cause to extend the time to conduct depositions, mediation deadline and dispositive motions deadline, as the requested extensions are brief and do not necessitate changing any other deadlines in the Amended CMSO or the trial term. The Court will extend the mediation deadline and dispositive motions deadlines to March 6, 2019 and will allow the parties until February 28, 2019 to complete depositions. Discovery is otherwise closed.

ACCORDINGLY, it is

ORDERED:

1. Plaintiff's Unopposed Motion to Extend the Discovery Deadline to Complete Depositions and Mediation Deadline is GRANTED. The parties shall have up to and including March 6, 2019 to conduct mediation, and shall have up to and including February 28, 2019 to complete depositions.

2. Defendant's Unopposed Motion for Enlargement of Time to File Dispositive Motions (Doc. 36) is GRANTED. The parties shall have up to and including March 6, 2019 to file dispositive motions.

3. All other deadlines and directives in the Court's Amended Case Management and Scheduling Order (Doc. 21) remain unchanged.

DONE and ORDERED.

FootNotes


1. Plaintiff does not request a specific length of extension to complete depositions, but states that the parties "reasonably anticipate" completing the final deposition by February 22, 2019. Doc. 34 at 3 n.2.
2. The Court previously extended the parties' deadline to complete depositions to February 4, 2019. Doc. 32 at 2-3. The Order provided, however, that discovery was otherwise closed. Id. at 3.
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