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Parties Involved:
Ashley Balfour
Plaintiff
M-I SWACO
Defendant
M-I, L.L.C.
Defendant
Sarmad Syed
Plaintiff

Document Text:

[PROPOSED] ORDER EXTENDING THE CLASS AND COLLECTIVE CERTIFICATION BRIEFING SCHEDULE 

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SARMAD SYED, individually, and on 

behalf of all others similarly situated,

ASHLEY BALFOUR, individually, and 

on behalf of all others similarly situated,

Plaintiffs,

vs.

M-I, L.L.C., a Delaware Limited Liability 

Company, doing business as M-I 

SWACO; and, DOES 1 through 10, 

inclusive,

Defendants.

Case No.: 1:12-cv-01718-AWI-MJS

ORDER DENYING REQUEST TO

EXTEND THE CLASS AND 

COLLECTIVE CERTIFICATION 

BRIEFING SCHEDULE

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ORDER EXTENDING THE CLASS AND COLLECTIVE CERTIFICATION BRIEFING SCHEDULE

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Before the Court is the Parties’ Joint Stipulation For Sixty (60) Days

Continuance Re: Motion For Conditional Collective And Class Action 

Certification Deadlines (“Joint Stipulation”) seeking to amend the operative class 

and collective certification briefing schedule. Good cause having been shown, 

said application is GRANTED, and the following class certification and/or 

collective action deadlines are extended as follow: 

(1) the deadline for filing a motion for class certification and, if 

applicable, motion for collective certification be continued from 

March 8, 2016 to May 6, 2016; 

(2) the deadline for Defendant’s opposition to any motion for class 

certification and, if applicable, motion for collective certification be 

continued from May 11, 2016 to July 11, 2016; 

(3) the deadline for Plaintiffs to file any reply in support of their 

motion for class certification and, if applicable, motion for collective 

certification be continued from May 23, 2016 to July 22, 2016; and 

(4) the hearing on Plaintiffs’ motion for class certification and, if 

applicable, collective certification be continued from June 10, 2016

to August 12, 2016 at 9:30 a.m.

ORDER

Having reviewed the parties’ Stipulation to extend the class and

collective certification briefing schedule in Case No. 1:12-cv-01718-AWI-MJS, 

the seven previous such Stipulations and Orders approving them, and the 

language of the most recent of those seven, signed November 18, 2015, which

states:

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ORDER EXTENDING THE CLASS AND COLLECTIVE CERTIFICATION BRIEFING SCHEDULE

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“There have been several successive extensions in this case. 

No further extensions will be granted absent new, unforeseen

and unforeseeable facts and circumstances establishing good

cause for same.” (ECF No. 56. Emphasis in original.)

and the absence of any good cause having been shown, the Stipulation to again

modify the schedule in this case is DENIED. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: February 22, 2016 /s/ Michael J. Seng 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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