Fernandez v. Southwestern Railroad of New Mexico et al

Filing 49

ORDER FOR EXPEDITED BRIEFING by Magistrate Judge Lourdes A. Martinez. (atc)

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO
ANTONIO FERNANDEZ,
Plaintiff,
v.

No. CIV-15-1165 MCA/LAM

THE WESTERN GROUP, L.C., and
SOUTHWESTERN SHORTLINE
RAILROAD COMPANY,
Defendants.

ORDER FOR EXPEDITED BRIEFING
THIS MATTER is before the Court on Plaintiff’s Opposed Motion to Extend Time
Discovery Period [sic] to Conduct Expert Witness Depositions (Doc. 47), filed March 30, 2017.
In the motion, Plaintiff asks for a sixty-day extension of the discovery period for the parties to
depose their respective expert witnesses. See [Doc. 47 at 3]. Plaintiff states that she is unable to
schedule the depositions of her experts in April 2017, and that Defendants’ counsel objects to
taking Plaintiff’s experts’ depositions after the deadline for Defendants to disclose their expert
reports, which is current May 2, 2017. See id. at 2 and [Doc. 47-1 at 2]. In order to address
Plaintiff’s motion as quickly as possible, the Court will order Defendants to file an expedited
response to Plaintiff’s motion.
IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that Defendants shall file a response to Plaintiff’s
motion no later than noon tomorrow, April 4, 2017. Plaintiff may file a reply to his motion no
later than 5:00 p.m. tomorrow, April 4, 2017.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
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LOURDES A. MARTÍNEZ
UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE