Cardenas v. Sandie et al

Filing 84

ORDER granting in part and denying in part ECF No. 83 Motion to Extend Time. Reply re ECF No. 78 is due by January 22, 2024. Signed by Chief Judge Miranda M. Du on 10/23/2023. (Copies have been distributed pursuant to the NEF - DLS)

1
2
3

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

4

DISTRICT OF NEVADA

5

***

6
7
8
9

JOEL CARDENAS,
v.

Case No. 3:15-cv-00476-MMD-CLB
Petitioner,

ORDER

TIM GARRETT, et al.,
Respondents.

10
11

Petitioner files an unopposed motion to extend time until March 21, 2024, to file a

12

reply (third request) to the amended petition. (ECF No. 83.) Petitioner seeks a 150-day

13

extension of time to file a reply due to case-related obligations and the fact that counsel

14

went on maternity leave on October 18, 2023. (Id. at 3.) The Court will grant a 90-day

15

extension.

16

While the Court expresses sympathy for counsel’s maternity leave, the Court also

17

has a duty to manage its docket and move cases to resolution. Petitioner has already

18

requested, and received, extensions of 90 days (ECF No. 79) and 62 days (ECF No. 81)

19

for case-related obligations. These prior extensions should have given counsel sufficient

20

time to file a reply before taking leave.

21

The Court denies in part and grants in part the motion for extension of time (ECF

22

No. 83). Petitioner will have up to and including January 22, 2024, to file a reply to the

23

first amended petition.

24

DATED THIS 23rd Day of October 2023.

25
26
27
28

MIRANDA M. DU
CHIEF UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE