ORDER

JAMES C. MAHAN, District Judge.

Presently before the court is the United States of America's ("the government") motion to extend time. (ECF No. 20).

The government's attorney, Ms. Nany Olson, indicates that she returned from the Thanksgiving holiday to find that she had bene assigned to respond to Bell's pending § 2255 motion. Id. at 1. The government currently has 21 days to respond to the motion. However, Ms. Olson will be preparing for and traveling to a Ninth Circuit hearing, a Department of Justice training, and preparing a Ninth Circuit reply brief in that time. Id. at 2. She will return to the office Friday, December 13, 2019—the current due date for the § 2255 response. Id.

Consequently, Ms. Olson requests a 21-day extension to file a response. Id. Ms. Olson indicates that "granting an additional 21 days would give [her] a full 21 days to respond, since [she] will not be able to meaningfully begin work on this response until December 13, 2019." Id.

Good cause appearing, the court will grant the 21-day extension. The government's response will be due January 3, 2020.

Accordingly,

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED, and DECREED that the government's motion to extend time (ECF No. 20) be, and the same hereby is, GRANTED.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the government shall file its response to Bell's § 2255 motion on or before January 3, 2020. Bell shall file his reply, if any, within 14 days of the government's response.