Lynch et al v. L'Oreal USA S/D, Inc

Filing 34

ORDER. The Court will grant plaintiffs until 7/31/2012 to file a response to the 29 MOTION for Summary Judgment. By Judge R. Brooke Jackson on 7/16/12. (mnfsl, )

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO
Honorable R. Brooke Jackson

Civil Action No. 11-cv-01343-RBJ-MWJ
DAWN M. LYNCH and SHAWN P. LYNCH,

Plaintiffs,
v.
L’OREAL USA S/D, INC., a Delaware corporation, d/b/a Lancome, registered to do business in
Colorado,
Defendants.

ORDER

The Court has reviewed the plaintiffs’ response [Docket #32] to this Courts Order to
Show Cause [Docket #31] as well as the defendants reply [Docket #33]. The Court will grant the
plaintiffs until July 31, 2012 to file a response to the motion for summary judgment [Docket
#29]. A motion for summary judgment claims that there are no genuine issues of material fact
in dispute, and that the case can be resolved by the Court without a trial based upon issues of
law. See Rule 56, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The party opposing summary judgment
must show (by affidavits, documents, deposition testimony or otherwise that there are issues of
fact that are genuinely disputed and that are material to a resolution of the legal issues. The party
cannot just rely on its pleadings in response to a motion for summary judgment. Plaintiffs'
response to the motion for summary judgment, which was filed on March 27, 2012, was due
approximately 21 days thereafter and is now significantly overdue. The Court grants this

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extension in deference to plaintiffs' pro se status but cannot give legal advice beyond explaining
what a summary judgment motion is.
DATED this 16th day of July, 2012.
BY THE COURT:

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R. Brooke Jackson
United States District Judge

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