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Parties Involved:
American Contractors Indemnity Company
Defendant
Falcon Builders & Developers, Inc.
Defendant
Marko Construction Group, Inc.
Plaintiff

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ORDER GRANTING STIPULATED REQUEST TO CONTINUE DEADLINE FOR REPSONSIVE PLEADINGS

Mac W. Cabal, Esq. (Bar No. 256157)

Member of

LANAK & HANNA, P.C.

625 The City Drive South, Suite 190

Orange, CA 92868

Telephone: (714) 620-2350

Facsimile: (714) 703-1610

mwcabal@lanak-hanna.com

Attorneys for Defendant

AMERICAN CONTRACTORS INDEMNITY COMPANY

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

UNITED STATES, For the Use of 

MARKO CONSTRUCTION GROUP, 

INC., a California corporation,

Plaintiff,

v.

FALCON BUILDERS & DEVELOPERS 

INC., a California corporation; 

AMERICAN CONTRACTORS 

INDEMNITY COMPANY, a California 

corporation,

Defendants.

CASE NO.: 1:16-CV-00327-LJO-SKO

ORDER GRANTING STIPULATED 

REQUEST TO CONTINUE THE 

DEADLINE FOR RESPONSIVE 

PLEADINGS

(Doc. 9)

Plaintiff United States, for the use of Marko Construction Group, Inc. (“Plaintiff”), 

filed its complaint on March 9, 2016. (Doc. 1.) Pursuant to the Return of Service filed 

May 31, 2016, Defendant American Contractors Indemnity Company (“Defendant

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ACIC”) was served by serving its “Licensee Agent as person in charge of the business” 

on May 6, 2016. (Doc. 7.)1 Defendant’s responsive pleading was therefore due twentyone (21) days after service, or May 27, 2016. Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(a)(1)(A)(i). 

The parties filed a “Stipulation to Continue the Deadline for Responsive 

Pleadings” on June 10, 2016, two weeks after the responsive pleading deadline. 

Although the Court may extend time to file a responsive pleading after the deadline 

has expired because of “excusable neglect,” Fed. R. Civ. P. 6(b)(1)(B), no such excusable 

neglect has been articulated – much less shown – here. Notwithstanding this deficiency, 

given the absence of bad faith or prejudice to Plaintiff (as evidenced by the parties’ 

agreement to the extension of time), and in view of the liberal construction of Fed. R. 

Civ. 6(b)(1) to effectuate the general purpose of seeing that cases are tried on the merits, 

see Ahanchian v. Xenon Pictures, Inc., 624 F.3d 1253, 1258-59 (9th Cir. 2010), the Court 

GRANTS the parties’ stipulated request. The parties are cautioned that future post hoc 

request for extensions of time will be viewed with disfavor. 

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Defendant ACIC shall file its responsive pleading

by no later than June 17, 2016. This extension does not impact or change any event or 

deadline already set by the Court.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 13, 2016 /s/ Sheila K. Oberto .

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

 

1 Defendant Falcon Builders & Developers, Inc. (“Defendant Falcon”) was served by serving its agent 

for service of process on April 10, 2016. (Doc. 4.) Plaintiff requested entry of default, and default was 

entered against Defendant Falcon, on May 3, 2016. (Docs. 5, 6.) 

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