Sheehan

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 SHANNON SHEEHAN, Case No.: 3:24-cv-01628-W-AHG Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING JOINT

MOTION TO CONTINUE EARLY

v.

NEUTRAL EVALUATION

FORD MOTOR COMPANY, CONFERENCE

Defendant. [ECF No. 15] 16 Before the Court is the parties’ joint motion to continue the Early Neutral Evaluation Conference (“ENE”) currently scheduled for December 9, 2024. ECF No. 15. Parties seeking to continue an ENE must demonstrate good cause. ECF No. 5 at 6–7 (“An ENE may be rescheduled only upon a showing of good cause”); Chmb.R. at 2 (stating that any request for continuance requires “[a] showing of good cause for the request”); see FED. R. CIV. P. 6(b) (“When an act may or must be done within a specified time, the court may, for good cause, extend the time”). “Good cause” is a non-rigorous standard that has been construed broadly across procedural and statutory contexts. Ahanchian v. Xenon Pictures, Inc., 624 F.3d 1253, 1259…