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Nature of Suit Code: 365
Nature of Suit: Personal Injury - Product Liability
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question: Personal Injury

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

WILLIAM LEE JOHNSON, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

CARLETON TECHNOLOGIES, INC., et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 1:19-cv-00105-JLT-SAB

ORDER GRANTING STIPULATED 

MOTION TO MODIFY SCHEDULING

ORDER IN PART AND DENYING 

REQUEST TO MODIFY DISPOSITIVE 

MOTION FILING DEADLINE

(ECF No. 103)

This action was filed on January 24, 2019. (ECF No. 1.) On July 10, 2019, a scheduling 

order issued. (ECF No. 44.) The scheduling order deadlines have been modified multiple times 

in this action, most recently on December 6, 2022. (ECF Nos. 63, 67, 75, 77, 82, 88, 96, 99.) 

Currently, the expert disclosure deadline is March 6, 2023; the supplemental expert disclosure 

deadline is April 2, 2023; the expert discovery deadline is May 22, 2023; the dispositive motion 

filing deadline is June 1, 2023; and a pretrial conference is set for July 31, 2023. (ECF No. 99.)1 

On February 13, 2023, the parties filed a stipulated motion to further modify the scheduling order 

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 In its August 24, 2022 order modifying the schedule, the Court noted the following regarding the proximity of the 

proposed dispositive motion filing deadline and the pretrial conference, the latter of which the parties had not requested 

to continue: “While the dispositive motion deadline is close to the current pretrial conference date, the Court shall 

keep the current pretrial conference date given there is no trial date currently set, and the need for continuing such 

conference can be addressed if dispositive motions are filed or if they are under consideration.” (ECF No. 96 at 2.) 

In its December 6, 2022 order partially granting the parties’ stipulated motion to modify the schedule, the Court 

declined to extend the dispositive motion filing deadline, in part due to a questionable showing of diligence in

completing certain previously identified depositions, but also so that the dispositive motion deadline could remain in 

its current posture in relation to the current pretrial conference date. (ECF No. 99 at 2.) 

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in this action as to the expert discovery deadlines; they do not seek to alter the dates of the 

dispositive motion deadline or the pretrial conference. (ECF No. 103.) The parties proffer they 

have completed all fact-witness depositions, as well as additional written discovery, but need 

additional time to complete expert discovery due to the need to continue the IMEs (of Plaintiff 

William Johnson) previously set for February and March 2023, to March 14 and 15, 2023, in order 

to the accommodate the family’s schedule in light of an unanticipated surgery; and to provide their 

experts sufficient time to review the reports. The parties also proffer a further mediation session 

has been scheduled for April 25, 2023. Accordingly, the parties request a 30-day extension of the 

expert discovery deadlines. Further, while the parties acknowledge the requested expert discovery 

deadline will expire after the dispositive motion filing deadline, they indicate they are not seeking 

to extend the dispositive motion deadline or the pretrial conference date. 

The Court finds sufficient good cause to grant the requested extensions of the discovery 

deadlines. Further, the Court is satisfied there still remains a sufficient period of time between the 

proposed close of expert discovery and the pretrial conference date. 

Accordingly, good cause existing and pursuant to the parties’ agreement, IT IS HEREBY 

ORDERED that the motion (ECF No. 103) is GRANTED, and the scheduling order is modified 

as follows:

1. Expert Disclosure Deadline: April 6, 2023;

2. Supplemental Expert Disclosure Deadline: May 2, 2023; and

3. Expert Discovery Deadline: June 22, 2023. 

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All other dates and aspects of the scheduling order, as previously modified, including the June 1, 

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2023 dispositive motion filing deadline, shall remain in effect.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: February 13, 2023 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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