June Medical Services LLC et al v. Gee et al

Filing 389

ORDER: the parties' Joint Motion For Extension Of TimeTo Meet And Confer And File Joint Memorandum (Doc. 388) be and is herebyGRANTED IN PART, and that the deadline to respond to the Court's January 13, 2022 Order be and is hereby extended to and through Friday, January 21, 2022.No further extensions will be allowed. Signed by Judge Brian A. Jackson on 1/16/2022. (PJH)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA
JUNE MEDICAL SERVICES,
LLC, ET AL.

CIVIL ACTION

VERSUS
REBEKAH GEE, ET AL.

NO. 16-00444-BAJ-RLB
ORDER

Now before the Court is the parties’ Joint Motion For Extension Of Time
To Meet And Confer And File Joint Memorandum (Doc. 388), seeking an
extension of the response deadline set forth in the Court’s January 13, 2022 Order
requiring the parties to re-evaluate their positions on “outstanding sealing issues” in
light of guidance provided by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in its
January 7, 2022 Remand Order. (Doc. 386; Doc. 387). The parties request fourteen
additional days to meet, confer, and prepare their joint memorandum, citing the fact
that their respective “offices are closed during the upcoming federal holiday on
January 17, 2022.” (Doc. 388, p. 1).
The Fifth Circuit provided the Court thirty days, or until Monday,
February 7, 2022, to re-evaluate its sealing orders. (Doc. 386, p. 13). The parties now
request an extension through Thursday, February 3, 2022, to file their
Joint Memorandum on the issue. (Doc. 388). The parties’ proposed two-week
extension is both wholly out of proportion to the basis of their request—a one-day
holiday—and untenable, as it would leave the Court just four calendar days to comply
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with the Fifth Circuit’s mandate to re-evaluate the parties’ positions and make final
determinations regarding outstanding sealing issues based on the guidance set forth
in the Circuit’s January 7 Remand Order. Finally, the Court has little sympathy for
the parties’ current predicament, insofar as many (if not all) of the sealing issues
presently under dispute were ostensibly settled long-ago under the parties’ agreed
protective orders.
Despite these misgivings, the parties’ Motion shall be granted in part, and the
parties’ shall be provided one additional day to comply with the Court’s
January 13 Order, to compensate for the upcoming Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
holiday.
Accordingly,
IT IS ORDERED that the parties’ Joint Motion For Extension Of Time
To Meet And Confer And File Joint Memorandum (Doc. 388) be and is hereby
GRANTED IN PART, and that the deadline to respond to the Court’s
January 13, 2022 Order be and is hereby extended to and through Friday,
January 21, 2022.
No further extensions will be allowed.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this 16th day of January, 2022

_____________________________________
JUDGE BRIAN A. JACKSON
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA

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