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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MICHAEL JENSEN,

Plaintiff,

v.

BMW OF NORTH AMERICA, LLC; 

BRECHT ENTERPRISES, INC. dba 

BMW OF ESCONDIDO; and DOES 1-

100, inclusive,

Defendants.

Case No.: 18cv103-WQH (NLS)

ORDER GRANTING IN PART

DEFENDANT’S EX PARTE MOTION 

TO CONTINUE DEADLINE FOR 

FILING JOINT DETERMINATION 

OF DISCOVERY DISPUTE

[ECF No. 45]

Before the Court is Defendant BMW of North America, LLC’s (“BMW”) ex parte

motion, requesting an extension of time for the parties to file a joint motion for 

determination of discovery dispute. ECF No. 45. Plaintiff opposes the request, or 

alternatively, requests that certain subsequent deadlines also be extended. ECF No. 47. 

On October 29, 2018, the Court issued an order denying BMW’s request to find 

the joint motion for determination of discovery dispute untimely. ECF No. 43. In that 

order, the Court ordered the parties to meet and confer and, if still unable to resolve their 

dispute, to file their joint motion by November 13, 2018. Id. 

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BMW now seeks an extension of this deadline to December 13, 2018, in light of its 

recent substitution of counsel. ECF No. 45. BMW states that the substitution of counsel 

took place on November 6, 2018, and new counsel obtained partial file materials on 

November 2, 2018. Id. at 2. As such, BMW argues that its new counsel needs more time 

to review the materials so that it participate in the joint motion practice. Id. at 3. 

Plaintiff was amenable to this extension request, but asked for BMW to agree to a 

commensurate extension on the following deadlines: opening and rebuttal expert report 

deadlines, close of fact discovery, and deadline to file pretrial motions. ECF No. 47 at 1. 

Plaintiff argues that an extension is appropriate for these dates because he intends to use 

the discovery he seeks in the joint motion in his expert reports and pretrial motions. Id. 

Plaintiff states that BMW refused to agree. Id. Moreover, Plaintiff argues that the 

requested extension is excessive and proposes that two weeks would be more appropriate. 

Id. at 3. 

The Court agrees with Plaintiff. The dispute presented in BMW’s previous ex 

parte request was not broad and only related to BMW’s refusal to give testimony 

regarding certain defects reported in vehicles from the same year, make, and model as 

Plaintiff’s vehicle, and the Court’s order limited the joint motion to only these issues. 

ECF No. 43 at 4-5. Even if BMW’s new counsel may need more time to come up to 

speed on the case generally, the Court finds that an extension of approximately two 

weeks should be sufficient for counsel to adequately respond to the discovery dispute. In 

light of the upcoming holidays, the Court will extend the time to file the joint motion to 

November 30, 2018. 

The Court will also grant a limited extension to the following deadlines:

Case Event Previous Deadline New Deadline

Initial Expert Witness

Disclosures

December 7, 2018 December 21, 2018

Rebuttal Expert Witness 

Disclosures

December 21, 2018 January 11, 2019

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Expert Witness Discovery

Deadline

January 21, 2019 February 8, 2018

All Pre-Trial Motions filing

deadline

February 21, 2019 March 1, 2019

All other dates shall remain as previously set. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: November 13, 2018

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