Just
(PC) Williams v. Just
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 Lance Williams, No. 2:18-cv-00740-KJM-DMC Plaintiff, ORDER v. D. Just, 1S Defendant. 16 Plaintiff Lance Williams moves to attend the final pretrial conference for this case remotely via Zoom, for the court to appoint him counsel and to reopen discovery. Mot. at 1, ECF No. 128. Defendant D. Just opposes. Opp’n, ECF No. 129. The court denies the motion. First, plaintiff moves to reopen discovery “because [the] discovery process was flawed” and if discovery is not reopened, his “case will be highly flawed and not winnable.” Mot. □□ □□ A moving party must show good cause to modify a scheduling order. Fed. R. Civ. P. 16(b)(4); Johnson v. Mammoth Recreations, Inc., 975 F.2d 604, 608 (9th Cir. 1992). This standard applies 24 to requests to reopen discovery. See, e.g., Sheridan v. Reinke, 611 F. App’x 381, 384 (9th Cir. 2015) (unpublished). Courts consider several…