Mason v. FCA US, LLC.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 Case No.: 24-cv-1849-DMS-KSC CHRISTOPHER JOHN MASON,
CLAUDIA A. MASON,
ORDER DENYING EX PARTE Plaintiffs, APPLICATION TO ADVANCE 13 v. HEARING OR TO CONTINUE EARLY NEUTRAL EVALUATION FCA US, LLC; and DOES 1 through 10,
CONFERENCE
inclusive, Defendants. 17 18 Pending before the Court is Plaintiffs’ counsel’s ex parte application to advance the 19 February 14, 2025 hearing on Plaintiffs’ counsel’s motion for order to withdraw as counsel 20 or, in the alternative, continue the February 10, 2025 Early Neutral Evaluation Conference. 21 (ECF No. 31). Defendants do not oppose. (ECF No. 32). 22 “Ex parte relief is rarely justified.” Al Otro Lado, Inc. v. Wolf, No. 17-CV-02366- 23 BAS-KSC, 2020 WL 8617490, at *1 (S.D. Cal. Dec. 7, 2020) (citing Mission Power Eng’g 24 Co. v. Cont’l Cas. Co., 883 F. Supp. 488, 490 (C.D. Cal. 1995)). To warrant ex parte relief, 25 the moving party must first…