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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 42:2000 Job Discrimination (Race)

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

David B. Jones,

Plaintiff, 

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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Wal-Mart Stores

East, L.P.,

Defendants. 

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No. CV-07-775-PHX-SMM

ORDER

Before the Court is the parties’ Joint Motion to Continue (Dkt. 34). The parties

state that they have engaged in written discovery and anticipate taking five to six

depositions after completing written discovery and document review. The parties further

state that they will not be able to complete written discovery and conduct depositions by

the current discovery cutoff deadline of September 19, 2008.

The Scheduling Order in this case expressly stated that it “contemplates that each

party will conduct discovery in such a manner as to complete, within the deadline, any

and all discovery. ‘Last minute’ or ‘eleventh hour’ discovery which results in insufficient

time to undertake additional discovery and which requires an extension of the discovery

deadline will be met with disfavor . . . .” (Dkt. 20, Order dated Jan. 8, 2008 at 2-3.) The

parties have been aware of the discovery and dispositive motion deadlines since the

Preliminary Pretrial Conference. Inability to complete discovery within the deadline does

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not constitute good cause for extension, and no other justification is provided for the

requested extension.

Accordingly,

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED denying the parties’ Joint Motion to Continue. (Dkt.

34.) The deadlines set forth in the Scheduling Order shall remain in effect.

DATED this 9th day of September, 2008.

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