Houston Casualty Company v. Cibus US LLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 HOUSTON CASUALTY COMPANY, Case No.: 19cv828-BAS-LL Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND

DENYING IN PART JOINT MOTION

v.

TO AMEND SCHEDULING ORDER

CIBUS US LLC, [ECF No. 23] Defendant. 16 Currently before the Court is the Parties’ “Joint Motion to Amend Scheduling Order.” ECF No. 23. The Parties request a 120-day extension of all remaining pre-trial deadlines. Id. at 4. In support, the Parties state Defendant’s offices in San Diego and North America “have been closed for over two months due to the COVID-19 pandemic” and employees in these offices “have been subject to various local orders that have limited their productivity and access to necessary information” which has decreased Defendant’s ability to “identify and gather the full set of documents” responsive to Plaintiff’s document requests. Id. at 3. Defendant specifically notes that further responsive documents may include “voluminous” e-mails “which span the…