Langill
Langill v. Allstate Insurance Company
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 EDWARD LANGILL and TRICIA Case No.: 3:20-cv-00176-LAB-AHG
LANGILL,
ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO Plaintiffs, CONTINUE EARLY NEUTRAL
EVALUATION AND CASE
v. MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE
ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY
15 OF CALIFORNIA, et al., [ECF No. 10] Defendants.
18 This matter comes before the Court on the parties’ Joint Motion to Continue the 19 Early Neutral Evaluation (ECF No. 10) currently set for April 3, 2020. 20 Parties seeking to continue an ENE must demonstrate good cause. ECF No. 6 at 4 21 (“An ENE may be rescheduled only upon a showing of good cause”); see also Fed. R. 22 Civ. P 16(b)(4) (“A schedule may be modified only for good cause and with the judge’s 23 consent”). “Good cause” is a non-rigorous standard that has been construed broadly 24 across procedural and statutory contexts. Ahanchian v. Xenon Pictures, Inc., 624 F.3d 25 1253, 1259 (9th Cir. 2010). The good cause standard focuses on the diligence of the…