Enborg

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

7 CASE NO. 2:20-cv-02477-AWI-BAK TERRI ENBORG, et al.

ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S

Plaintiff, MOTION TO AMEND SCHEDULING

ORDER TO ALLOW SUBSTITUTION

v. OF SPECIFIC CAUSATION EXPERT

ETHICON, INC., et al.,

(Doc. No. 172) Defendants.

15 Plaintiff Terri Enborg brings a motion seeking to amend the scheduling order to permit her to substitute Dr. Bruce Rosenzweig for Dr. Donald Ostergard as her specific causation expert. Doc. No. 172. The motion has been fully briefed and was taken under submission following oral argument on April 25, 2022. Doc. No. 184. For the reasons set forth below, the motion will be denied. RELEVANT BACKGROUND1 On May 1, 2019, the MDL Court issued a scheduling order applicable to this case and other Wave 12 cases in the pelvic mesh MDL providing, inter alia, that plaintiffs must serve expert disclosures under Rule 26 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure by August 19, 2019. 25 26 1 The events set forth here are compiled…