Cardenas v. Butler

Summary

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of California partially grants plaintiff Marvin Cardenas’s motion to modify the discovery and scheduling order. The court extends the deadline to serve discovery requests to September 2, 2025, the discovery completion and discovery-dispute deadlines to November 3, 2025, and the pretrial-motion deadline to January 26, 2025, as stated in the order.

Holdings

1. Plaintiff established good cause for a limited modification of the discovery and scheduling order, but not for the four-month extension he requested.
2. The court granted plaintiff thirty days to serve discovery requests, extended the discovery-completion deadline to November 3, 2025, and set November 3, 2025, as the deadline for discovery motions to compel.
3. The court modified the pretrial-motion deadline to January 26, 2025, as stated in the order.

Questions Presented

1. Whether plaintiff established good cause under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 16(b)(4) to modify the discovery and scheduling order.
2. Whether the court should extend the deadlines for serving discovery requests and completing discovery.
3. Whether the dispositive-motion deadline should be modified as a consequence of extending discovery.

Disposition

other