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

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DOMINIC HANNA, ) Case No. 1:14-cv-00142

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 Plaintiff, ) ORDER GRANTING IN PART

) AND DENYING IN PART REQUEST 

v. ) TO MODIFY THE SCHEDULING

) ORDER

COUNTY OF FRESNO, et al., )

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 Defendants. )

On September 9, 2015, the parties filed a stipulation to modify the 

scheduling order. (Doc. 78.) The parties maintain a schedule modification is 

necessary because discovery has been significantly complicated by the extreme 

physical limitations of Plaintiff. 

Plaintiff is currently housed at the Golden Cross assisted living facility 

under the care of a physician. Among many other limitations, Plaintiff cannot 

hold a document in his hand and for him to read anything, a document must be 

held for him. His voice is very soft and his speech is low, thus conversations with 

him take far longer than with an unimpaired individual. Due to these limitations, 

preparation for his deposition will require an extended period of time, and his 7-

hour deposition will probably require three or four days. Plaintiff also needs to 

take approximately five additional depositions following Plaintiff's September 22, 

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2015, deposition. The parties have thus requested that all remaining deadlines 

be extended approximately 60 days.

Although the parties have established that additional time is necessary to 

prepare for and conduct Plaintiff's deposition, there is no good cause stated to 

modify the entire schedule of deadlines. The Court will grant the parties an 

additional 30 days in light of the additional time needed to prepare for and take 

Plaintiff's deposition, but a wholesale continuance of all deadlines is denied. 

Accordingly, the deadlines are modified as set forth below. 

Discovery Deadlines: 

Non Expert Discovery: February 8, 2016 

Expert Disclosure: February 29, 2016 

Sup. Expert Disclosures: March 25, 2016

Expert Discovery: May 27, 2016

Non-Dispositive Motion Deadlines: 

Filing: June 20, 2016

Hearing: July 20, 2016

Dispositive Motion Deadlines: 

Filing: June 20, 2016

Hearing: July 20, 2016

Settlement Conference: 

April 8, 2016, 10 a.m., Courtroom 6, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Seng

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Pre-Trial Conference:

August 31, 2016

Trial:

October 12, 2016

The deadlines and dates pertaining to dispositive motions, the Pretrial 

Conference, and the Trial have not been modified. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: September 7, 2015 /s/ Sheila K. Oberto 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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