Opinion
Civil Action No. 11-cv-01518-MSK-MEH
06-05-2012
ANNA CISNEROS, Plaintiff, v. ALLSTATE INSURANCE, d/b/a Encompass Insurance Company of America, a/k/a Encompass Insurance, Defendant.
MINUTE ORDER
Entered by Michael E. Hegarty , United States Magistrate Judge, on June 5, 2012.
Before the Court is Defendant's Second Unopposed Motion to Amend Scheduling Order and Extend Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(a)(2) Expert Disclosure Deadlines [filed May 30, 2012; docket #27]. The present motion relies on a presumption that the scheduling deadlines in this case were extended with the filing of the original motion to amend on March 22, 2012 (docket #25). However, the original "motion" apparently was not filed as a motion and did not trigger the Court's electronic mechanism alerting the Court of the need to rule on such document. Therefore, the "motion" was never ruled upon. (See id.)
Nevertheless, the Court finds good cause to extend the deadlines as requested by Defendant. At the same time, the Court will not grant any further extension of these deadlines absent a showing of exceptional cause. Therefore, the motion is granted and the Scheduling Order is modified as follows:
Initial expert disclosures: July 2, 2012
Rebuttal expert disclosures: August 2, 2012
Discovery cutoff: August 31, 2012
Dispositive motions deadline: October 1, 2012
The Final Pretrial Conference in this case will be held before Judge Krieger and has not yet been scheduled.