Frontline Services, Inc. v. Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

5 FRONTLINE SERVICES, INC., Case No.: 23-cv-00077-JAH-BGS 6 Plaintiff, 7 v. ORDER GRANTING JOINT MOTION FOR EXTENSION OF DEADLINES

SEASPINE ORTHOPEDICS REGARDING EXPERT WITNESS

CORPORATION, DISCOVERY

10 Defendant. [ECF 61]

13 On March 5, 2024, the parties filed a joint motion seeking to extend the deadlines in their case for expert and supplemental expert disclosures and expert discovery so that Plaintiff may substitute its previously designated expert witness and so the replacement expert witness may provide a timely written report under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(a)(2)(B). (See ECF 61.) For the following reasons, the Court concludes there is good cause to extend the remaining expert deadlines and to allow the substitution of the previously designated expert witness and, therefore, GRANTS the joint motion. “‘[T]he district court is given broad discretion in supervising the pretrial phase of litigation . . .…