Kersting

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 11 TERESA KERSTING, Case No.: 3:23-cv-00159-TWR-AHG Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING IN PART

JOINT MOTION TO CONTINUE

v.

EARLY NEUTRAL EVALUATION

UNITEDHEALTH GROUP, CONFERENCE AND CASE

MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE

Defendant.

[ECF No. 6] 18 Before the Court is the parties’ joint motion to continue the Early Neutral Evaluation Conference (“ENE”) and Case Management Conference (“CMC”), currently scheduled for March 9, 2023. ECF No. 6. Parties seeking to continue an ENE must demonstrate good cause. ECF No. 4 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, e.g., FED. R. CIV. P. 6(b) (“When an act may or must be done within a specified time, the court may, for good cause, extend the time”). “Good cause” is a non-rigorous standard that has…