Hwang
Hwang v. Nationwide Life and Annuity Insurance Company
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ELIZABETH HWANG, an individual, Case No.: 3:23-cv-01666-WQH-VET
Plaintiff,
ORDER DENYING WITHOUT
v. PREJUDICE JOINT MOTION TO
AMEND THE SCHEDULING
NATIONWIDE LIFE AND ANNUITY
ORDER
INSURANCE COMPANY, an Ohio 15 corporation; NATIONWIDE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, an Ohio [Doc. No. 27] corporation; and DOES 1 to 10, inclusive, 17 Defendants. 18 19 Before the Court is the parties’ Joint Motion to Amend the Scheduling Order Regulating Discovery and Other Pre-Trial Proceedings (“Joint Motion”). Doc. No. 27. Therein, the parties seek to extend the deadline to complete fact discovery by forty-five (45) days, from May 28 to July 12, 2024. Id. at 4. They state that Plaintiff’s deposition and Defendant’s Fed. R. Civ. P. 30(b)(6) deposition (collectively “Remaining Depositions”) could not be completed by the May fact discovery cutoff due to deponents’ unavailability. Id. at 3–4. They also state Plaintiff’s counsel was in…