County of Sacramento v. Everest National Ins. Co.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO, No. 2:19-cv-00263-MCE-DB 12 Plaintiff, 13 v. ORDER 14 EVEREST NATIONAL INSURANCE

COMPANY,

15 Defendant. 16

17 Presently before the Court is Plaintiff County of Sacramento’s (“Plaintiff”) Ex Parte 18 Application to Modify the September 10, 2020 Stipulation and Order to Further Modify 19 Case Schedule. ECF No. 37 (“Ex Parte App.”). Defendant Everest National Insurance 20 Company (“Defendant”) opposes this request. ECF No. 38. For the reasons set forth 21 below, Plaintiff’s Motion is DENIED.1 22 Generally, the Court is required to enter a pretrial scheduling order within 120 23 days of the filing of the complaint.2 Fed. R. Civ. P. 16(b). The scheduling order “controls 24

25 1 Given this Court’s disproportionately high case load, and in the interest of conserving judicial resources and expediting a decision in this case, the Court will not recount details with which the parties 26 are intimately familiar. To be clear, the Court has considered all evidence and arguments in…