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Parties Involved:
Jim Dedman
Defendant
Dedman's Sanitation
Defendant
John Norvell
Plaintiff

Document Text:

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS

NORTHERN DIVISION

JOHN NORVELL, individually and on 

behalf of all others similarly situated PLAINTIFF

v. Case No. 3:21-cv-00233 KGB

DEDMAN'S SANITATION 

and JIM DEDMAN DEFENDANTS

ORDER

Before the Court is the parties’ joint motion to modify scheduling order (Dkt. No. 50). The 

parties represent that the Court’s Fourth Amended Final Scheduling Order set a discovery deadline 

on June 21, 2024, a motions deadline on August 29, 2024, and a trial date for some time during 

the week of October 28, 2024 (Id., ¶ 3). The parties further represent that this is a collective action 

brought pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act and that, including the named plaintiff, 11 

individuals have filed consents to join the case (Id., ¶ 4). The parties state that they have begun 

taking depositions in this matter; due to recent technological difficulties, the parties were not able 

to complete all of the scheduled depositions on their scheduled date and need additional time to 

take and complete all of the depositions in this matter (Id., ¶ 5). The parties state that they are 

looking at late July dates to schedule the remaining necessary depositions (Id., ¶ 6)

The parties jointly request that “the discovery period be extended from its existing cut-off 

date of June 21, 2024, through and including August 9, 2024.” (Id., ¶ 7). The parties also state 

that they “do not believe that this discovery extension should impact the current trial date or the 

other pretrial deadlines, nor are the [p]arties currently requesting an extension for any deadline 

other than the discovery deadline.” (Id., ¶ 9). However, the Court notes that in the first paragraph 

of the parties’ motion, the parties request “that the Court extend the discovery deadline by an 

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additional 60 days, and to modify the other remaining dates accordingly.” (Id., ¶ 1). A 60-day 

extension of the June 21, 2024, discovery deadline would extend that deadline to August 20, 2024, 

a mere nine days before the August 29, 2024, motions deadline. Based on the latter portions of 

the parties’ motion, the Court understands the parties to request only an extension of the discovery 

deadline from June 21, 2024, up to, and including, August 9, 2024. The Court further understands 

that the parties do not request any other extensions. 

For good cause shown, the Court grants the parties’ joint motion to modify scheduling 

order (Id.). The Court extends the discovery deadline as set forth in the Fourth Amended Final 

Scheduling Order from June 21, 2024, up to, and including, August 9, 2024. All other deadlines 

in the Fourth Amended Final Scheduling Order remain as previously set.

It is so ordered this 21st day of June, 2024.

Kristine G. Baker

Chief United States District Judge

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