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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

THE ECLIPSE GROUP LLP, a California 

limited-liability partnership,

Plaintiff,

v.

TARGET CORPORATION, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No.: 15cv1411

ORDER (1) GRANTING IN PART

DEFENDANTS’ EX PARTE

APPLICATION TO CONTINUE 

MOTION FOR SUMMARY 

ADJDUCIATION; (2) CONTINUING 

OPPOSITION DEADLINE FOR 

MOTION FOR SUMMARY 

ADJUDICATION; AND (3) SETTING 

OPPOSITION DEADLINE FOR EX 

PARTE APPLICATION TO 

CONTINUE MOTION FOR 

SUMMARY ADJUDICATION

(ECF Nos. 79, 86)

Presently before the Court is Defendants’ Ex Parte Application to Continue Motion 

for Partial Summary Judgment of Intervenor Pursuant to Rule 56(d) (“Cont. Mot.”). (ECF 

No. 86.) Intervenor filed a Motion for Summary Adjudication several weeks ago. (ECF 

No. 79.) The Court set a briefing schedule for the Motion for Summary Adjudication that, 

in relevant part, set March 30, 2017 as the deadline for Defendants’ Opposition. (ECF No. 

80.) Defendants now request the Court to either continue the hearing date and 

corresponding briefing deadlines or simply deny the Motion, because “Defendants have 

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not had the opportunity to take [Intervenor’s] deposition, or the deposition of the person 

most knowledgeable of [the named Plaintiff] sufficiently in advance of the date 

[Defendants’] Opposition to the Motion is due . . . .” (Cont. Mot. 7.)

In support, Defendants allege that Intervenor only recently notified Defendants of 

his unavailability for a scheduled deposition and that Intervenor “has refused to offer any 

alternative dates for his deposition, or even meaningfully meet and confer on the issue.” 

(Id. at 2.) Intervenor also has due his first set of responses to Defendants’ various discovery 

requests only a day prior to when Defendants’ Opposition to the Motion for Summary 

Adjudication is currently due. (Id. at 3.) Additionally, the named Plaintiff has allegedly 

“raised baseless objections to Defendants’ first set of requests for production of documents, 

special interrogatories and requests for admissions, again denying Defendants[’] access to 

material information directly related to the issues raised in the Motion.” (Id. at 2.)

Although, given Defendants’ presented evidence, the Court is inclined to dismiss 

without prejudice the pending Motion for Summary Adjudication, Defendants note that 

Intervenor contests several of the allegations Defendants make in the Continuance Motion. 

(See id. at 6.) And Intervenor should have a chance to respond to Defendants’ allegations.

Accordingly, the Court CONTINUES the hearing on the pending Motion for 

Summary Adjudication until Thursday, June 15, 2017 at 1:30 p.m. Defendants SHALL 

file their Opposition on or before May 4, 2017. Intervenor SHALL file his Reply, if any, 

on or before May 18, 2017.

Additionally, Intervenor SHALL file a response regarding Defendants’ Continuance 

Motion on or before April 4, 2017. Intervenor should address the reasons for or against 

denying the pending Motion for Summary Adjudication until such time as Defendants have

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completed the discovery they contend is needed to adequately address the Motion. Any 

subsequent denial of the Motion for Summary Adjudication on these grounds would be 

without prejudice.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 28, 2017

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