Workplace Technologies Research, Inc. v. Project Management Institute, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 WORKPLACE TECHNOLOGIES Case No.: 18cv1927 JM (MSB)
RESEARCH, INC.,
Plaintiff, 13 v. ORDER ON OBJECTION TO
MAGISTRATE JUDGE’S ORDER
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
INSTITUTE, INC.,
16 Defendant.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
INSTITUTE, INC., Counter-Claimant, v. WORKPLACE TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH, INC., and DOES 1-15, 22 Counter-Defendants.
Plaintiff and Counter-Defendant Workplace Technologies Research, Inc. (“WTR”) object under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 72(a) to Magistrate Judge Michael S. Berg’s order (Doc. No. 78) extending the deadline to serve request for written discovery. (Doc. No. 80.) Plaintiff Project Management Institute, Inc. (“PMI”) opposes. (Doc. No. 90.) For the below reasons, the objection is OVERRULED. I. BACKGROUND The deadline in the scheduling order to serve written discovery requests expired on August 3, 2020. (See Doc. No. 57.) Due to an “inadvertent and unintentional calendaring 4 …