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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JOHN MELENDEZ, ET AL., Case No. 1:20-cv-01393-ADA-CDB

Plaintiffs, ORDER ON STIPULATION AMENDING

SCHEDULING ORDER AS MODIFIED

v. (ECF No. 35) RALPH DIAZ, ET AL., Defendants. 16 Plaintiffs initiated this action by filing a complaint on September 28, 2020. (ECF No. 1). On July 28, 2022, the Court convened the parties for a scheduling conference and thereafter issued a Scheduling Order. (ECF No. 31). On January 4, 2022, the parties filed a stipulation seeking a 90-day extension of the discovery, motion and trial schedule. (ECF No. 35). The stipulation seeking an extension is the first request by the parties to amend the scheduling order and is timely filed pursuant to Local Rule 144(d). The parties represent in the stipulation that they are in dispute as to whether eight of the twelve plaintiffs exhausted their remedies, and that Defendants anticipate filing a motion for summary judgment based on the lack of exhaustion. (Id. at 2). The…