Johnson v. Sandy et al

Filing 31

ORDER signed by Magistrate Judge Allison Claire on 12/12/13 ORDERING that the court will VACATE the discovery and dispositive motion deadlines set in the DSO (ECF No. 20 ), and will grant defendants request for an extension of time until January 7, 2014 (ECF No. 30 ) to respond to plaintiffs first set of requests for production of documents. A new DSO will issue when all defendants have been served.(Dillon, M)

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 Case No. 2:12-cv-02922 AC (P) JOSEPH JOHNSON, 12 13 ORDER Plaintiff, v. 14 15 16 E. SANDY, et al., Defendants. 17 18 Defendants Cruzen, Sandy, Lavagnino, Lavergne and Cobian have requested an additional 19 twenty-five days, to and including January 7, 2014, within which to serve their responses to 20 Plaintiff’s Request for Document Production, Set One. The Discovery and Scheduling Order 21 (DSO) sets January 20, 2014 as the discovery deadline and requires that any motion to compel 22 discovery be brought by that date. ECF No. 20. The court disagrees with the defendants’ 23 contention that the requested extension would not prejudice plaintiff in light of the current 24 discovery deadline. However, there is good cause to extend the deadlines set in the DSO. That 25 scheduling order was issued after four of the defendants, Sandy, Lavagnino, Lavergne and 26 Cobian, had answered the original complaint but before one of the defendants who seeks an 27 extension, Cruzen, had filed an answer. In addition, plaintiff subsequently filed a first amended 28 1 1 complaint and the court, on November 25, 2013, found the first amended complaint appropriate 2 for service, as modified, upon six additional defendants. ECF No. 29. 3 In light of the foregoing, the court will VACATE the discovery and dispositive motion 4 deadlines set in the DSO (ECF No. 20), and will grant defendants’ request for an extension of 5 time until January 7, 2014 (ECF No. 30) to respond to plaintiff’s first set of requests for 6 production of documents. A new DSO will issue when all defendants have been served. 7 8 IT IS SO ORDERED. DATED: December 12, 2013 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 2

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