IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO,

EASTERN DIVISION

CHIRSTOPHER M. COOPER,

Case No. 2:17-cv-00948

Plaintiff,

Judge George C. Smith

v.

Magistrate Judge Elizabeth P. Deavers

CITY OF COLUMBUS, ET AL.,

Defendants.

MOTION TO MODIFY THE CASE SCHEDULING ORDER

Plaintiff hereby moves this Court, pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 16(b) to modify the 

case scheduling order in this matter. The reasons in support of said Motion are contained 

in the Memorandum in Support, which is attached hereto and incorporated herein. 

Defense counsel has indicated they will not oppose this motion. An Entry is attached 

to this Motion for the convenience of the Court.

Respectfully submitted,

/s/Sean L. Walton, Jr._

Sean L. Walton, Jr. (0088401)

swalton@waltonbrownlaw.com

Chanda L. Brown (0081076)

cbrown@waltonbrownlaw.com

Walton + Brown, LLP

395 E. Broad Street, Suite 200

Columbus, Ohio 43215

(614) 636-3476/Fax: (614) 636-3453

/s/Christopher M. Cooper_

Christopher M. Cooper (0028970)

ccooper4th@aol.com

Cooper & Pennington Co., LPA

3055 Cleveland Ave.
Columbus, OH 43224

(614) 447-0255/Fax: (614) 447-8672

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT

This case arises from the October 29, 2015 death of Deaunte Bell-McGrew. The 

Complaint in this matter was filed October 26, 2017; he Preliminary Pretrial Order was 

filed on February 1, 2018; discovery cut off is currently set for October 12, 2018, and the 

Dispositive Motion Deadline is set for December 7, 2018. Both Plaintiff and Defendants 

have thus far cooperated in the discovery process. Plaintiff is requesting a continuance of 

the currently scheduled primary expert deadline of June 22, 2018 as well as the rebuttal 

expert deadline of August 17, 2018. Defense counsel has indicated that they are agreeable 

to a four week extension of these deadlines, as well as the responses to their discovery

requests which were also due June 22, 2018. 

Pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 16(b), Plaintiff respectfully moves this Court for an 

Order modifying the primary expert designations deadline and rebuttal expert deadline in 

this matter. This is the first continuance. 

Respectfully submitted,

/s/Sean L. Walton, Jr._

Sean L. Walton, Jr. (0088401)

swalton@waltonbrownlaw.com

Chanda L. Brown (0081076)

cbrown@waltonbrownlaw.com

Walton + Brown, LLP

395 E. Broad Street, Suite 200

Columbus, Ohio 43215

(614) 636-3476/Fax: (614) 636-3453
/s/Christopher M. Cooper_

Christopher M. Cooper (0028970)

ccooper4th@aol.com

Cooper & Pennington Co., LPA

3055 Cleveland Ave.

Columbus, OH 43224

(614) 447-0255/Fax: (614) 447-8672

Attorneys for Plaintiffs
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

The undersigned hereby certifies that a true and accurate copy of the foregoing 

was served upon the following counsel of record by the court’s electronic filing system, 

this 22nd day of June 2018.

Michael R. Halloran (0089093)

Andrew D.M. Miller (0074515)

Assistant City Attorneys

CITY OF COLUMBUS, DEPARTMENT OF LAW

ZACH KLEIN, CITY ATTORNEY

77 North Front Street 

Columbus, Ohio 43215

mrhalloran@columbus.gov

admmiller@columbus.gov

/s/ Sean L. Walton

Sean L. Walton (0088401)
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO,

EASTERN DIVISION

CHRISTOPHER M. COOPER,

Case No. 2:17-cv-00948

Plaintiff,

Judge George C. Smith

v.

Magistrate Judge Elizabeth P. Deavers

CITY OF COLUMBUS, ET AL.,

Defendants.

ORDER

The Court has before it the Plaintiff’s Unopposed Motion to Modify the Case 

Scheduling Order. Having considered the Motion, the Court is of the opinion that it 

should be GRANTED. Upon application of the Plaintiff, and for good cause shown, the 

Clerk’s Original Case Schedule is hereby amended as follows:

Primary Expert Designations July 20, 2018

Rebuttal Expert Designations September 14, 2018

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UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE