Stein
Stein v. Farmers Insurance Company of Arizona
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 BARBARA STEIN and STUART STEIN, Case No.: 3:19-cv-00410-DMS-AHG Plaintiffs,
ORDER DENYING MOTION TO
v. AMEND SCHEDULING ORDER TO
FILE MOTION FOR SUMMARY
FARMERS INSURANCE COMPANY
JUDGMENT
OF ARIZONA,
15 Defendant. 16 [ECF No. 133] 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 I. BACKGROUND This matter comes before the Court on Defendant’s Motion for Leave to File Motion for Summary Judgment, filed on June 5, 2021. ECF No. 133. Defendant asks that the Court amend the Scheduling Order to allow it to file a motion for summary judgment, although the pretrial motions deadline passed on February 22, 2021. Id.; see also ECF No. 43. The Court held a hearing on the motion on July 8, 2021. ECF No. 167. This order follows. II. LEGAL STANDARD Under 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…