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

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

Arizona Nutritional Supplements, Inc., an

Arizona corporation,

Plaintiff, 

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Protient, Inc., a Delaware corporation; et

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Defendants. 

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No. CV-05-2096-PHX-LOA

ORDER

This matter arises on the parties' fourth Joint Motion to Extend Discovery

Deadlines (docket # 53), filed on November 7, 2006.

A review of the Court's file discloses that this lawsuit was filed on July 15,

2005. (docket # 1) Defendants' Answer was filed on October 28, 2005. Counsels' initial,

agreed-upon discovery cutoff as a result of the Rule 26(f) conference was June 12, 2006.

(docket # 19 at 4) At the Rule 16 scheduling conference on January 19, 2006, however, the

Court likely advised counsel that their June 12, 2006 discovery deadline was overly

optimistic and, with the agreement of all counsel, extended and set the discovery deadline

to August 31, 2006. On May 9, 2006, May 25, 2006, and September 19, 2006, the Court was

asked to modify various deadlines, which it did because good cause was shown, to the

current deadline for discovery on November 24, 2006 and a dispositive motion deadline of

December 22, 2006. Counsel jointly set forth in the pending motion the extensive discovery

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conducted to date and ask for yet additional deadline extensions to January 15, 2007 for

discovery and February 15, 2007 for dispositive motions.

Counsel appear to continue to either underestimate the amount of legal work

reasonably necessary to prepare this case for trial or give themselves too little time to do that

work. The Court will provide counsel more time to conclude all discovery and file dispositive

motions with meaningful deadlines which will not be extended by the Court absent

extraordinary cause.

Accordingly,

IT IS ORDERED that the parties' fourth Joint Motion to Extend Discovery

Deadlines (docket # 53) is GRANTED to the extent that discovery shall be completed by

Friday, March 16, 2007 and all dispositive motions, if any, shall be filed on or before

Monday, April 30, 2007. No additional extensions of deadlines will be granted by the

Court, even upon stipulation of all counsel, absent extraordinary cause.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Court's last scheduling order of

September 15, 2006 is hereby AFFIRMED in all other aspects.

DATED this 8th day of November, 2006.

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