(PS) Bunio v. Victory Packaging, L.P.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 VINCE BUNIO, No. 2:18-cv-897-KJM-EFB PS Plaintiff, v. ORDER MODIFYING THE INITIAL
PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER
VICTORY PACKAGING, L.P., Defendant. 16 Plaintiff moves to modify the court’s scheduling order to extend all deadlines by at least four months. ECF No. 19. Defendant opposes the motion. ECF No. 20. For the following reasons, plaintiff’s motion is granted. In June 2019, the court approved plaintiff’s proposed substitution of attorney, which substituted plaintiff in propria persona in place of attorney Rachel Renno. ECF No. 15. The following month plaintiff moved to modify the court’s scheduling order, requesting that all deadlines be extended by six months. ECF No. 17. Plaintiff explained that he was seeking to obtain new counsel, and that at least one law firm informed him that it would not be willing to represent him unless the deadlines were extended. In light of that representation, plaintiff’s…