Reyes

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ANNA REYES, ET AL., Case No. 1:21-cv-01340-CDB

Plaintiffs, ORDER ON STIPULATION AMENDING

SCHEDULING ORDER AS MODIFIED

v. (ECF No. 24) COUNTY OF KERN, ET AL., Defendants. 16 Pending before the Court is the parties’ stipulated request to amend the case management dates – the third such request filed in this case in less than five months. (ECF No. 24). The stipulation is not accompanied by a supporting declaration as required by the scheduling order entered in December 2021 (ECF No. 12 at p. 6). In their unsworn representations, counsel assert that a four-month extension in all discovery, pretrial motion and trial dates is warranted for two reasons: the recently proposed guardian ad litem will be unavailable to appear for a deposition until late-May 2023 (at least two months after the current close of discovery), and one of plaintiffs’ assigned attorneys recently departed the representing law firm, resulting in the reassignment of a newly joined…