Siegler
Siegler v. Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
I. Background
27 28 On July 24, 2018, Plaintiff filed the instant action in the Southern District of California. After extensive motions practice, the Court on August 2, 2019, granted dismissal with prejudice on all of the claims in Plaintiff’s second amended complaint. (ECF No. 126.) On August 26, 2019, the Court denied Plaintiff’s sixth omnibus motion which requested (1) an extension on statutory deadline to file her Rule 59(e) motion against the dismissal order entered August 2, 2019, and (2) leave to file a motion for reconsideration which would exceed the 25 page limit prescribed by the local civil rules. The Court denied the first request and reaffirmed the statutory August 30, 2019, deadline because Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 6 expressly forbids the Court to provide the extension requested. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 6(b)(2) (“A court 12 must not extend the time to act under Rules 50(b) and (d), 52(b), 59(b), (d), and (e), 13 and 60(b).”). The Court granted the request to depart from the 25 page limit; in the 14 absence of a requested brief length, the Court permitted a filing of up to 35 pages. 15 Plaintiff’s instant…