Ochoa

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ALEJANDRO OCHOA, Case No.: 1:18-CV-01599 NONE JLT

Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING STIPULATION TO AMEND

CASE SCHEDULE

v. (Doc. 20) COUNTY OF KERN, et al., Defendants.

The Court scheduled this case on February 19, 2019 (Doc. 11). Since that time, the Court has granted stipulations to amend the case schedule twice. (Docs. 17, 20). Counsel represented that the first amendment was necessary due to the illness of defense counsel and the second was needed due to the illness of plaintiff’s counsel. (Docs. 16, 18) Counsel have now stipulated to amend the case schedule a third time citing only the COVID-19 pandemic (Doc. 22). Not to minimize the impacts of this situation but the pandemic does not explain the failure to complete non-expert discovery by March 3, 2020 as ordered. Likewise, counsel offer no explanation why they failed to make expert disclosures by March 20, 20201 or why they let these deadlines and the expert discovery deadline pass (on June 5, 2020), without…