JOINT MOTION AND ORDER FOR AN EXTENSION OF TIME FOR THE PARTIES TO FILE A JOINT PRETRIAL ORDER WITH THE COURT

MIRANDA M. DU, District Judge.

Plaintiff, The Erection Company ("TEC), and Defendants, Archer Western Contractors, LLC ("AWC"), Travelers Casualty and Surety Company of America ("Travelers") and Postel Industries, Inc., ("Postel"), by and through their counsel of record, hereby jointly move for an Order extending the deadline in which the parties have to file a Joint Pretrial Order with the Court. Pursuant to the Court's Minute Order filed March 19, 2015, the Court ordered that the parties file a Joint Pretrial Order with the Court. (See Dkt. #245.) The parties hereto request a further thirty day extension of that deadline to July 7, 2015 for the following reasons: (1) The parties have found it impossible to schedule a meeting of counsel to discuss the stipulated facts, stipulated documents, objections to documents and deposition testimony, etc required by the Joint Pre Trial Order because of previously scheduled vacations and calendar conflicts; (2) The sheer volume of potential trial documents and deposition testimony warrants an exchange of proposed exhibits, facts, issues of law, and deposition testimony prior to any meeting of counsel. The brief extension of the deadline to file the pre trial order will allow the parties to exchange such documents, briefs and evidence; and (3) The parties intend to discuss duringthe brief extension whether to exclude the respective sureties from the trial pursuant to a stipulation, thereby streamlining the trial herin. Consequently, the parties jointly request an Order from the Court extending the deadline in which the parties have to file their Joint Pretrial Order from June 5, 2015 until July 7, 2015.

ORDER

IT IS SO ORDERED.