Diaz

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MICHELLE-LAEL B. NORSWORTHY, Case No. 1:20-cv-00813-DAD-HBK

Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO EXTEND

TIME TO FILE AMENDED COMPLAINT

vs. (Doc. No. 39) RALPH DIAZ, et al.,

Defendants.

12 Before the court is the parties’ stipulation for plaintiff to file her first amended complaint, 13 incorporating motion to extend deadline to file amended complaint and attaching proposed amended 14 complaint filed April 29, 2021. (Doc. No. 39). The court’s scheduling order set a December 12, 2020 15 deadline to amend the pleadings. (Doc. No. 31 at 2). 16 Under Local Rule 144, the parties are required to receive court approval for extending deadlines 17 set by the court, and untimely extension requests are disfavored. The Ninth Circuit has held that such 18 requests should be evaluated under the good cause standard of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 19 16(b)(4). Coleman v. Quaker Oats Co., 232 F.3d 1271, 1294 (9th Cir. 2000). That rule states that “[a] 20 schedule may be modified only for good cause and with the…