Little v. Commissioner of Social Security
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ORDER DENYING Request for Extension 15 . Order signed by Magistrate Judge Sheila K. Oberto on 5/9/2017. (Timken, A)
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
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BRADLEY JENNINGS LITTLE,
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Plaintiff,
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Case No. 1:16-cv-00846-SKO
ORDER DENYING REQUEST FOR
EXTENSION
(Doc. 15)
COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY,
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Defendant.
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On May 2, 2017, the parties filed a joint Stipulation and Proposed Order for a First
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Extension of Time for Defendant to File Her Responsive Brief (the “Request”), in which the
parties request an “extension of time of 30 days” for Defendant “to file her responsive brief.”
(Doc. 15.) The stated bases for the Request are that defense counsel “improperly calendar[ed] the
deadlines in this case” and has “a very heavy workload.” (Id.)
The Court notes that Defendant’s responsive brief was due over one month prior to the
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parties filing the Request, (see Docs. 5 & 12)―something the parties fail to address in the
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Request, (see Doc. 15). As the Court recently noted in an analogous situation, “Defendant was
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free to timely request an extension prior to the current deadline . . . , regardless of the volume of
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defense counsel’s workload.” Colston v. Comm’r of Soc. Sec., Case No. 1:15-cv-01750-SKO,
2017 WL 784870, at *1 n.1 (E.D. Cal. Feb. 28, 2017). “The Court will not now grant [an]
extension where Defendant waited for over one month after this deadline to seek such relief.” Id.
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For these reasons, the Court DENIES the Request. (Doc. 15.)
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IT IS SO ORDERED.
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May 9, 2017
/s/
Sheila K. Oberto
UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE
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