Staggs

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 LINNIE STAGGS, et al., No. 2:11–cv–414–MCE–KJN Plaintiffs, ORDER GRANTING LATE EXPERT v. (ECF No. 278) DOCTOR’S HOSPITAL OF MANTECA, et al., 15 Defendants. 16 This case concerns the alleged medical indifference by Defendants as against a patient, now deceased (“Decedent’). (See ECF No. 117.) As the parties were preparing for trial, Plaintiffs moved to allow a late designation of an expert witness. (See ECF Nos. 249, 259, 260, and 258.) Thereafter, the District Judge vacated the February 20, 2020 Jury Trial on his own motion and denied the motion as moot. (See ECF No. 277.) Plaintiffs then refiled their motion before the undersigned, arguing that because the trial has now been postponed until (at a minimum) the latter half of 2020, the designation of the late expert is harmless. (ECF No. 278.) Defendants opposed, arguing Plaintiffs’ excessive delay in moving for this late designation–– which has come almost two years after the…