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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 DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE

MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA, NORTHERN DIVISION

FREDERICK MEANS, )

)

Plaintiff, )

) CIVIL ACTION NO.

v. ) 2:10cv851-MHT

) (WO) 

PAUL’S BODY & PAINT SHOP, )

INC., and JAMES HOWARD, )

)

Defendants. )

OPINION AND ORDER

Based on the representations made on-the-record on

July 14, 2011, it is ORDERED as follows:

(1) Defendant Paul’s Body & Paint Shop, Inc.’s motion

for leave to file summary-judgment motion out of time

(doc. no. 38) is denied.

(2) Defendant Paul’s Body & Paint Shop, Inc.’s motion

for summary judgment (doc. no. 34) is denied as untimely.

(3) Plaintiff Frederick Means’s motions to strike

(doc. nos. 36 and 37) are denied as moot.

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Defendant Paul’s Body & Paint Shop, Inc.’s extension

request, which comes a month after the dispositive-motion

deadline, violates § 15(b) of the uniform scheduling

order (doc. no. 21) (“Absent stated unforeseen and

unavoidable circumstances beyond the control of the

movant, oral extension requests and motions are not

allowed, and ‘eleventh hour’ extension requests and

motions will be denied outright.”); an earlier extension

request was denied (doc. no. 33), and there was no

request for reconsideration; and, with the current

pretrial and trial dates, plaintiff Frederick Means would

be prejudiced by an extension. See McClaney v. Macon

County Bd. of Educ., 2011 WL 9015 (M.D. Ala. Jan. 3,

2011) (Thompson, J.).

DONE, this the 14th day of July, 2011.

 /s/ Myron H. Thompson 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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