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Parties Involved:
Commissioner of Social Security
Defendant
Belinda Rodriguez
Plaintiff

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Steven G. Rosales

Attorney at Law: 222224

Law Offices of Lawrence D. Rohlfing

12631 East Imperial Highway, Suite C-115

Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670

Tel.: (562)868-5886

Fax: (562)868-5491

E-mail _steven.rosales@rohlfinglaw.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff BELINDA RODRIGUEZ

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

BELINDA RODRIGUEZ,

Plaintiff,

vs.

CAROLYN COLVIN, Acting 

Commissioner of Social Security,

Defendant

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Case No.: 1:15-CV-01780-SKO

STIPULATION TO MODIFY 

BRIEFING SCHEDULE; ORDER

TO THE HONORABLE SHEILA K. OBERTO, MAGISTRATE JUDGE 

OF THE DISTRICT COURT:

Plaintiff Belinda Rodriguez (“Plaintiff”) and defendant Carolyn Colvin, 

Acting Commissioner of Social Security (“Defendant”), through their undersigned 

counsel of record, hereby stipulate, subject to the approval of the Court, to extend 

the time for Plaintiff to file Plaintiff’s Opening Brief to November 18, 2016; and 

that Defendant shall have until December 19, 2016, to file her opposition. Any 

reply by plaintiff will continue to be due December 20, 2016.

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This Court is aware that Counsel’s Spouse battled Stage IV breast cancer 

which metastasized initially to her liver and continued to progress with tumors in her 

lungs, spine and brain. After exhausting all known chemotherapy treatments over 

18 months ago and surviving on willful determination and profound faith alone 

Counsel’s wife has succumbed to her illness. On September 30, 2016 Counsel 

gently held his wife as she relinquished her fight and passed away. Counsel 

required the time to deal with providing the appropriate respect to his spouse and 

assisting his nine year old son and seven year old daughter deal with their loss.

Counsel notes that the modified briefing schedule continues to require any 

reply brief to be filed by the same December 20, 2016 date as previously set by this 

Court. Consequently, the modification results in a reduction of time for Counsel to

prepare any reply and does not extend the time for this matter to be submitted to the 

Court for decision. Counsel sincerely apologizes to the court for any 

inconvenience this may have had upon it or its staff. 

DATE: November 16, 2015 Respectfully submitted,

 LAW OFFICES OF LAWRENCE D. ROHLFING

/s/ Steven G. Rosales BY: _________________________ Steven G. Rosales Attorney for plaintiff BELINDA RODRIGUEZ

DATED: September 26, 2016 PHILLIP A. TALBERT

Acting United States Attorney 

*/S/- Asim Modi

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Asim Modi 

Special Assistant United States Attorney

Attorney for Defendant

[*Via email authorization]

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ORDER

The Court is in receipt of the parties’ stipulation to extend the time in which 

for Plaintiff to serve her opening brief until November 18, 2016, which was filed 

the same day. (Doc. 15.) The Court notes that Plaintiff’s opening brief was due on 

November 3, 2016, per the Court’s order entered September 29, 2016. (Doc. 14.) 

The parties’ stipulated request for an extension of time is, therefore, untimely. 

The Court finds, however, that the parties have shown good cause under 

Fed. R. Civ. P. 16(b)(4) for modifying the Scheduling Order (Doc. 5), and 

accordingly GRANTS the parties’ request and MODIFIES the Scheduling Order as 

follows:

1. Plaintiff is permitted to file her opening brief on November 19, 2016;1

2. Defendant shall file a responsive brief no later than December 19, 

2016; and

3. Plaintiff may file an optional reply brief no later than December 20, 

2016, as previously ordered. (Doc. 14.)

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: November 21, 2016 /s/ Sheila K. Oberto .

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

 1 Although the parties requested that Plaintiff’s opening brief be filed by November 18, 2016, the Court 

notes that Plaintiff did not file her brief until one day later, on November 19. The Court cautions the 

parties that, absent good cause shown, it will not grant any further briefing extensions in this case.

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