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

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

Lynn M. Bleeker,

Plaintiff, 

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Mike Johanns, Secretary, United States

Department of Agriculture,

Defendant. 

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No. CV-07-0413-PCT-SMM

ORDER

Before the Court is Defendant’s Motion for Extension of Time for Filing Dispositive

Motion (Dkt. 82). Defendant requests the Court grant a 30-day extension of the time for

filing dispositive motions because depositions were completed on August 21, 2008, and the

dispositive motion deadline fell only seven days after the close of discovery. Defendant

further states that counsel only received the remaining deposition transcripts at 4:30 on

August 28, 2008. Plaintiff opposes the motion insofar as it requests a 30-day extension, but

that Defendant should be allowed a minimum amount of time considered reasonably

necessary to file dispositive motions. (Dkt. 83.)

The Court has granted three previous extensions of the dispositive motion deadline.

(See Dkts. 38, 54, 64.) Most recently, the Court granted Plaintiff’s unopposed motion to

grant a 21-day extension of time to complete discovery. (Dkt. 64, Order dated July 24,

2008.) That motion stated that the parties did not anticipate a need to revise the dispositive

motion deadline, and the Court noted that the dispositive motion deadline would remain

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August 29, 2008. Defendant now states, on the day before the dispositive motion deadline,

that the deadlines he agreed to and has been aware of for over a month are insufficient.

Defendant does not explain why this request was not brought earlier.

The Court will therefore deny Defendant’s request for a 30-day extension, but grant

Defendant a reasonable extension of time to file dispositive motions. 

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED granting in part Defendant’s Motion for Extension of

Deadline for Dispositive Motions (Dkt. 82). Defendant shall have until Friday, September

19, 2008 to file dispositive motions.

DATED this 5th day of September, 2008.

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