Cancino Castellar et al v. Kelly et al
Filing
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ORDER Granting In Part 184 Joint Motion to Continue Case Management Conference ("CMC"). Telephonic CMC reset for 11/5/2021 at 11:00 AM before Magistrate Judge Allison H. Goddard. Signed by Magistrate Judge Allison H. Goddard on 10/4/2021. (hmw)
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
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JOSE ORLANDO CANCINO
CASTELLAR, et al.,
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ORDER GRANTING IN PART
JOINT MOTION TO CONTINUE
CASE MANAGEMENT
CONFERENCE
Plaintiffs,
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Case No.: 3:17-cv-491-BAS-AHG
v.
ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS, et al.,
Defendants.
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[ECF No. 184]
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Before the Court is the parties’ Joint Motion to Continue Case Management
Conference. ECF No. 184. The parties request that the Court extend the October 5 filing
deadline for their Joint Case Management Statement, and the October 12 Case
Management Conference. Id.
Parties seeking to continue deadlines must demonstrate good cause. Chmb.R. at 2–
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request”); see also FED. R. CIV. P. 6(b) (“When an act may or must be done within a
specified time, the court may, for good cause, extend the time”). “Good cause” is a nonrigorous standard that has been construed broadly across procedural and statutory contexts.
Ahanchian v. Xenon Pictures, Inc., 624 F.3d 1253, 1259 (9th Cir. 2010). The good cause
standard focuses on the diligence of the party seeking to amend the scheduling order and
the reasons for seeking modification. Johnson v. Mammoth Recreations, Inc., 975 F.2d
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604, 609 (9th Cir. 1992) (“[T]he focus of the inquiry is upon the moving party’s reasons
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for seeking modification. . . . If that party was not diligent, the inquiry should end.”)
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(internal citation omitted). Therefore, “a party demonstrates good cause by acting diligently
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to meet the original deadlines set forth by the court.” Merck v. Swift Transp. Co., No. CV-
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16-01103-PHX-ROS, 2018 WL 4492362, at *2 (D. Ariz. Sept. 19, 2018).
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Here, the Court set a Case Management Conference for October 12, 2021, and
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required that the parties file their Joint Case Management Statement by October 5, 2021.
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ECF No. 181. The parties represent to the Court that, because the class certified by this
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Court is narrower than the class proposed by Plaintiffs, Defendants are currently assessing
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whether the scope of the class impacts the applicability of the data they produced in
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discovery thus far, and how this may impact the proposed scheduling of discovery and
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dispositive motion deadlines. ECF No. 184 at 2. The parties also represent that they are in
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the process of meeting and conferring regarding a pending fact discovery matter, relating
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to the reopening of Rule 30(b)(6) depositions concerning new documents that were
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produced after the original Rule 30(b)(6) depositions took place. Id. Thus, the parties seek
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a two-week extension of the filing deadline and conference, to October 19 and October 26,
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respectively. Id. at 3.
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As an initial matter, the parties’ motion is deficient. First, the Joint Case
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Management Statement was due on October 5 (see ECF No. 181), but the instant motion
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to continue that deadline was filed on October 4. ECF No. 184. By filing the motion
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one day before the affected deadline, the parties failed to follow the Court’s Chambers
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Rules. See Chmb.R. at 2 (requiring that “[a]ll requests for continuances must be made by
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a joint motion no less than seven calendar days before the affected date”) (emphasis added).
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Second, the parties failed to provide a declaration from counsel, as required by the
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Court’s Chambers Rules. Chmb.R. at 2 (requiring that the joint motion for continuance
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include a “declaration from counsel seeking the continuance that describes the steps taken
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to comply with the existing deadlines, and the specific reasons why the deadlines cannot
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be met”). The Court also notes that this is not the first time the Court has reminded the
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parties of their obligations to follow its Chambers Rules in connection with a motion to
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continue. See ECF No. 112 at 2 n.1 (listing the shortcomings of the motion to continue,
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including the lack of declaration). The Court will take the parties at their word without the
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required declaration, but will not do so again.
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Despite the joint motion’s shortcomings, the Court finds good cause to continue the
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Case Management Conference. Thus, the parties’ joint motion is GRANTED IN PART
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as follows:
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1.
The telephonic, counsel-only Case Management Conference originally set
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for October 12, 2021 is RESET for November 5, 20211 at 11:00 a.m. before the Honorable
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Allison H. Goddard. Counsel shall call the chambers teleconference line at 1-877-873-8018
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and use 8367902 as the access code.
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2.
The parties must file a Joint Case Management Statement by
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October 27, 2021. The Joint Case Management Statement must address all points in the
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“Joint
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Allison H. Goddard,” which can be found on the court website at:
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https://www.casd.uscourts.gov/Judges/goddard/docs/Goddard%20Joint%20Case%20Man
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agement%20Statement%20Rules.pdf.
Case
Management
Statement
Requirements
for
Magistrate
Judge
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IT IS SO ORDERED.
Dated: October 4, 2021
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The Court recognizes that the parties requested that the Case Management Conference be
reset for October 26, 2021. ECF No. 184 at 3. However, that date is unavailable on the
Court’s calendar.
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