Bevins v. Becker County, Minnesota et al

Filing 150

ORDER granting 141 Motion for Extension of Time; granting 141 Motion for Joinder. Signed by Magistrate Judge Becky R. Thorson on 4/24/2018. (TMM) cc: Corey Victor Bevins. Modified text on 4/24/2018 (MMP).

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA
Civ. No. 16-4340 (DWF/BRT)

Corey Bevins,
Plaintiff,
v.
Becker County, Minnesota, et al.,

ORDER
Defendants.

This matter comes before the Court on Defendant Innovis Health, LLC’s motion
for joinder, or in the alternative, for an extension of the discovery and dispositive motion
deadlines. (Doc. No. 141.) Innovis Health moves to join the motion for summary
judgment filed by co-defendant St. Mary’s Regional Health Center and to seek summary
judgment for the same grounds articulated in that motion. (See Doc. Nos. 126, 148.)
Innovis Health was not a party to this action until it was served with process on April 13,
2018, three days before the dispositive motion deadline. (See Doc. Nos. 93, 138.)
Therefore, the Court finds good cause to extend the dispositive motion deadline in order
to allow Innovis Health to join St. Mary’s motion.
Innovis Health’s Motion for Joinder (Doc. No. 141) is GRANTED. The
previously-established briefing schedule remains in place. (See Doc. No. 137.)
Date: April 24, 2018.
s/ Becky R. Thorson
BECKY R. THORSON
United States Magistrate Judge
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