Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. v. Electrolux Home Products, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 11 FIREMAN’S FUND INSURANCE CO., Case No.: 3:23-cv-01847-CAB-AHG Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING IN PART
JOINT MOTION TO CONTINUE
v.
EARLY NEUTRAL EVALUATION
ELECTROLUX HOME PRODUCTS, CONFERENCE
INC.,
16 [ECF No. 12] Defendant. 17 18 19 20 21 Before the Court is the parties’ joint motion to continue the Early Neutral Evaluation Conference (“ENE”), currently scheduled for February 9, 2024. ECF No. 12. 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 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 been construed broadly across procedural and statutory contexts. Ahanchian v. Xenon Pictures, Inc., 624 F.3d 1253, 1259 3 …