Johnson v. Knight Transportation, Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SORYA JOHNSON, Case No.: 1:18-CV-01674- JLT

Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING STIPULATION TO AMEND

THE CASE SCHEDULE

v. (Doc. 24)

KNIGHT TRANSPORTATION, INC., et al.,

Defendants.

The parties have stipulated to amend the case schedule to extend all deadlines by about four months. They assert that, “due to the number of expert and lay witness depositions, and despite the diligence of the Parties, the Parties have been unable to schedule all depositions in this case to occur by the afore-mentioned deadlines.” (Doc. 24 at 2) Notably, they do not describe the discovery conducted to date, the number of depositions they need to complete, the number they have already completed, when they first learned of the necessity of taking the remaining depositions and why they did not learn of this need earlier, when they began attempting to schedule the depositions and what the impediments are for completing them. Indeed, they have not explained why they need…