Tlatelpa v. Amazon.com Services LLC

8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA CESAR TLATELPA, Case No. 1:24-cv-00605-KES-CDB 12 Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING STIPULATED 13 v. REQUEST TO CONTINUE PRE-TRIAL DEADLINES AND AMENDING AMAZON.COM SERVICES, LLC, SCHEDULING ORDER AS MODIFIED 15 Defendant. (Doc. 13) Background 19 Pending before the Court is the parties’ stipulated request to continue pre-trial deadlines.

20 (Doc. 13).

21 In support of the request, the parties represent that, to reduce costs, they agreed to delay formal discovery pending their participation in private mediation, which they engaged in on February 6, 2025, but did not reach a settlement. Thereafter, Defendant retained new counsel (Docs. 7-9). Defendant’s new counsel requires additional time to familiarize themselves with the case. After the private mediation, the parties began engaging in formal written discovery and anticipate beginning depositions at the end of April 2025. Id. at 2.

27 The parties, therefore, stipulate to modify the scheduling order and assert that these facts present good cause to do so. Id. at 3.

1 Discussion 2 The parties propose the following extended deadlines (id. at 3): Event Current Date New Date Non-Expert Discovery Deadline 05/06/2025 08/04/2025 Expert Disclosure Deadline 05/20/2025 Rebuttal Disclosure Deadline 06/17/2025 Expert Discovery Deadline 07/17/2025 10/15/2025 Mid-Discovery Status Conference 04/02/2025 07/02/2025 Non-Dispositive Motion Filing Deadline 07/31/2025 10/01/2025 Non-Dispositive Motion Hearing 09/08/2025 12/08/2025 Dispositive Motion Filing Deadline 09/22/2025 12/22/2025 Dispositive Motion Hearing 011/03/2025 02/02/2026 Pre-Trial Conference 03/09/2026 Trial 05/05/2026 15 For good cause shown, the parties’ stipulated request to continue case management dates (Doc. 13) will be granted, as modified below.

17 Given the extension of all pretrial deadlines, it is impractical to grant the parties’ request while maintaining the current expert disclosure and rebuttal expert disclosure deadlines, as well as the pre-trial conference and trial dates. As such, and to comport with the assigned district judge’s scheduling protocols, all related deadlines as well as the pre-trial conference and trial dates will be extended.

22 In light of the significant extensions of time granted herein, the Court admonishes the parties that it is unlikely to grant further extensions of time. As the Court of Appeals has observed: 24 In these days of heavy caseloads, trial courts in both the federal and state systems routinely set schedules and establish deadlines to foster efficient treatment and resolution of cases. Those efforts will be successful only if the deadlines are taken 26 seriously by the parties, and the best way to encourage that is to enforce the deadlines. Parties must understand that they will pay a price for failure to comply 27 strictly with scheduling and other orders . . .

28 Wong v. Regents of Univ. of Cal., 410 F.3d 1052, 1060 (9th Cir. 2005).

1 The Court admonishes the parties that any further extensions of case management deadlines | to accommodate possible settlement discussions (which the Court expects to be undertaken in | parallel with the extended case management dates below) will not be granted absent extraordinary | circumstances.

5 | Conclusion and Order 6 In light of the parties’ representations and good cause appearing, IT IS HEREBY | ORDERED that the scheduling order (Doc. 6) be amended as follows: 8 Event Prior Date Amended Date 9 1. Non-Expert Discovery Deadline 05/06/2025 08/04/2025 10 2. Expert Disclosure Deadline 05/20/2025 08/18/2025 11 3. Rebuttal Disclosure Deadline 06/17/2025 09/08/2025 12 4. Expert Discovery Deadline 07/17/2025 10/15/2025 13 5. Mid-Discovery Status Conference 04/02/2025 07/02/2025 14 6. Non-Dispositive Motion Filing Deadline 07/31/2025 10/01/2025 15 7. Non-Dispositive Motion Hearing 09/08/2025 12/08/2025 16 8. Dispositive Motion Filing Deadline 09/22/2025 12/22/2025 17 9. Dispositive Motion Hearing 011/03/2025 02/02/2026 18 10. Pre-Trial Conference 03/09/2026 06/08/2026 19 11. Trial 05/05/2026 09/04/2026 | IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: _ March 5, 2025 | hwrnrD Pr 22 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE