Schmidt

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 11 STEPHEN SCHMIDT, Case No.: 3:20-cv-01294-MMA-AHG Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING JOINT

MOTION TO CONTINUE EARLY

v.

NEUTRAL EVALUATION

AIR CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE, INC., CONFERENCE AND CASE

MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE

Defendants.

[ECF No. 10]

28 This matter comes before the Court on the parties’ Joint Motion to Continue the Early Neutral Evaluation Conference (“ENE”). ECF No. 10. Parties seeking to continue the ENE must demonstrate good cause. See ECF No. 5 at 6 (“An ENE may be rescheduled only upon a showing of good cause”); Chmb.R. at 2 (stating that any request for continuance requires “[a] showing of good cause for the request”); see also Fed. R. Civ. P 16(b)(4) (“A schedule may be modified only for good cause and with the judge’s consent”). “Good cause” is a non-rigorous standard that has been construed broadly across procedural and statutory contexts.…