Johnson v. Merck & Co., Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 Virginia L. Johnson, et al., No. 2:20-cv-00138-KJM-DB Plaintiffs, ORDER v. Merck & Co., Inc., et al., 1S Defendants. 16 This matter is before the court on defendants’ motion to reopen discovery. The court submitted the matter without oral argument. Because defendants have not established good cause 19 to reopen discovery, the court denies the motion. 20 I. BACKGROUND In its scheduling order, issued in May 2020, the court determined that fact discovery would be completed by February 1, 2021, and all expert discovery would be completed by April 30, 2021. See Minutes, ECF No. 10. The court ultimately set dates for completing expert 24 disclosures and exchanging supplemental and rebuttal expert witnesses as May 10, 2021, and May 30, 2021, respectively. See Order, ECF No. 25. Defendants’ former counsel, Thomas Yen, conducted only minimal discovery. He did 27 not, for…