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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Contract Dispute

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United States District Court 

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SONG FI, INC., JOSEPH N. 

BROTHERTON, LISA M. PELLEGRINO, 

N.G.B., RASTA ROCK, INC., 

 

 Plaintiffs, 

 

 v. 

GOOGLE, INC., YOUTUBE LLC, 

 Defendants. 

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No. C 14-5080 CW 

ORDER GRANTING 

ADMINISTRATIVE 

MOTION FOR 

EXTENSION OF TIME 

TO FILE EXPERT 

REPORT 

 

Plaintiffs file this administrative motion for a three-week 

extension of time to file the report of their chief damages 

expert. Plaintiffs must show good cause for an extension. Fed. 

R. Civ. P. 16(b)(4). This inquiry “focuses on the reasonable 

diligence of the moving party.” Noyes v. Kelly Servs., 488 F.3d 

1163, 1174 n.6 (9th Cir. 2007). Plaintiffs indicate that their 

damages expert has not received documents on which he seeks to 

base his expert report and that as a consequence he refused to 

file his expert report by the deadline set by the Court. 

Plaintiff’s proffered showing of good cause is weak; however, 

in an abundance of caution and due to the drastic consequences of 

being denied a damages expert, the Court grants the requested 

relief. Plaintiffs may file an expert damages report within three 

weeks of the deadline established in the Court’s scheduling order. 

Thus the new deadline is November 7. No further extensions will 

be granted without new and extraordinary good cause. The Court 

notes that the extension requested will not provide Plaintiffs 

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with sufficient time to file a belated motion to compel discovery 

of the documents sought by Plaintiffs’ damages expert from 

Defendants. Finally, Plaintiffs’ deadline to designate a rebuttal 

expert is shortened as proposed in Plaintiffs’ motion. 

For the foregoing reasons and subject to the foregoing 

conditions, Plaintiffs’ administrative motion is GRANTED. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: October 31, 2016 

CLAUDIA WILKEN 

United States District Judge 

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