Johnson v. United States of America

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 CAREY L. JOHNSON, Case No.: 18cv2178-BEN (MSB)

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING IN PART JOINT

v. MOTION FOR 30-DAY EXTENSION OF

CERTAIN CASE MANAGEMENT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, et al.,

DEADLINES [ECF NO. 71]

Defendants. 16 Pending before the Court is the parties’ “Renewed Joint Motion for 30-Day Extension of Certain Case Management Deadlines,” filed August 13, 2020. (ECF No. 71.) In their motion, the parties ask to continue the deadlines for fact and expert discovery, expert designations and discovery, and the filing of pretrial motions by approximately 30 days. (Id. at 2.) The parties explain that this case is complicated insofar as Plaintiff’s Second Amended Complaint involves six different incidents on five different dates and “possibly twenty (20) fact witnesses who will need to be deposed.” (Id. at 2-3.) The parties claim they have diligently pursued discovery despite the challenges…