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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 28:451 Employment Discrimination

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ROBERT FELIX and JACK PHELPS, 

individuals,

 Plaintiffs, 

 v. 

THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, 

DEPARTMENT OF DEVELPMENTAL 

SERVICES, OFFICE OF PROTECTIVE 

SERVICES, et al.,

 Defendants.

1:13-cv-00561 LJO SKO

ORDER DENYING REQUEST TO 

CONTINUE PRETRIAL 

CONFERENCE AND TRIAL DATE

(Doc. 30)

The Court has carefully reviewed the Parties’ stipulation for an order continuing the trial date 

and pretrial dates. Doc. 30. Due to this Court’s impacted calendar, it will only reschedule trial dates if 

good cause is shown. The Court does not believe the parties have made such a showing. This is not an 

extraordinarily complex matter. The current discovery deadlines, set at a September 16, 2013 scheduling 

conference, provided the Parties with approximately one year to complete discovery. The parties have 

not presented any compelling reason why an additional year is needed. Nor have the parties presented 

any compelling reason why the scheduling of mediation “on or about December[] 2014 to February[] 

2015” warrants continuing the pretrial conference or trial date, currently set for May 7, 2015 and June 

23, 2015, respectively. Accordingly, the request to continue the pretrial conference and trial date is 

DENIED. The Court will defer to the Magistrate Judge as to whether there is good cause to modify any 

of the other deadlines, including the dispositive motions deadline. Alternatively, the Parties are 

encouraged to reconsider consent to the Magistrate Judge, whose schedule is far more accommodating 

than the undersigned’s. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: July 28, 2014 /s/ Lawrence J. O’Neill 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

Case 1:13-cv-00561-SKO Document 31 Filed 07/29/14 Page 1 of 1