Horton

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 RACHEL HORTON, Case No.: 3:21-cv-01160-W-AHG

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND

v. DENYING IN PART JOINT MOTION

TO CONTINUE SCHEDULING

CAINE & WEINER COMPANY, INC.,

DATES

Defendant.

16 [ECF No. 52] 17 Before the Court is the parties’ Joint Motion to Continue Scheduling Dates, filed on March 17, 2022. ECF No. 52. The parties seek to extend all remaining dates in the case schedule by approximately six months, to avoid expending resources on discovery practice while Defendant’s summary judgment motion is pending. See id. at 3-4. Under Fed. R. Civ. P 16(b)(4), “[a] schedule may be modified only for good cause and with the judge’s consent.” See also ECF No. 30 ¶ 20 (providing that the dates in the Case Management Order would not be modified “except for good cause shown”). “Good cause” is a non-rigorous standard that has been construed broadly across procedural and statutory contexts.…