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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

TERRY RENEE MCCLURE, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

PRISONER TRANSPORTATION 

SERVICES OF AMERICA, LLC, et al.,

Defendants.

No. 1:18-cv-0176-DAD-SKO

ORDER GRANTING IN PART REQUEST

TO MODIFY SCHEDULING ORDER

(Docs. 132, 133)

On April 3, 2020, Third-Party Plaintiffs/Defendants Leticia Monique Avalos and Fausto 

Avalos, Defendants Prisoner Transportation Services of America, LLC and Cleveland Robert 

Wheeler, and Third-Party Defendant Albert T. Gonzalez (“Defendants”), filed a request to modify 

the scheduling order by extending the expert discovery deadline and non-dispositive and dispositive 

motions deadlines by approximately sixty days. (Doc. 132; see Doc. 133.) Defendants request that 

the Court keep the currently scheduled settlement conference, pretrial conference, and trial dates. 

(Doc. 132 at 4.) Defendants contend that the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in 

the parties being unable to complete expert depositions by the current expert discovery deadline. 

(See id. at 3.) On April 9, 2020, Plaintiffs filed a notice of non-opposition to the request. (Doc. 

135.)

The Court finds good cause to extend the deadlines in the scheduling order as requested. 

However, the Court will adjust certain of the parties’ dates to conform to the Court’s scheduling 

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preferences and will extend the pretrial conference and trial dates as well, to give the Court 

sufficient time to rule on dispositive motions. The settlement conference date will remain August 

20, 2020, but the parties may file a request to continue the settlement conference if later deemed 

necessary. 

Accordingly, for good cause shown, the Court GRANTS IN PART the request and will

modify the scheduling order and enlarge the deadlines as follows: 

Event Prior Date Continued Date

Expert Discovery Completion

(pertaining to depositions of Dr. 

Wobrock and the rebuttal 

expert disclosed to rebut Dr. 

Wobrock only)

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April 10, 2020 June 26, 2020

Non-Dispositive Motion Filing April 27, 2020 July 10, 2020

Non-Dispositive Motion Hearing May 27, 2020 August 12, 2020

Dispositive Motion Filing May 8, 2020 July 17, 2020

Dispositive Motion Hearing June 16, 2020 August 25, 2020

Settlement Conference August 20, 2020 Unchanged 

Pretrial Conference August 24, 2020 October 26, 2020, at 2:30 

p.m.

Trial October 20, 2020 January 5, 2021, at 8:30 

a.m.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 14, 2020 /s/ Sheila K. Oberto .

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

 

1 The Court previously extended the rebuttal expert disclosures deadline and expert discovery deadline for the limited 

purpose of rebuttal expert disclosures and discovery related to Dr. Wobrock, the expert disclosed by Defendants Leticia 

Monique Avalos and Fausto Avalos, and any experts disclosed to rebut Dr. Wobrock. (See Doc. 122 at 2.) The parties 

now state that only Defendants Prisoner Transportation Services of America, LLC and Cleveland Robert Wheeler 

disclosed such a rebuttal expert, and request that the expert discovery deadline be extended for the limited purpose of 

“depositions of Dr. Wobrock and the rebuttal expert disclosed to rebut Dr. Wobrock only.” (Doc. 132 at 4.) For good 

cause shown, and because no party opposes the request, the extension will be so limited. 

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