Alfarag v. DeJoy

• Court: District Court, W.D. Washington
• Decided: May 8, 2024
• Docket: 2:22-cv-01745
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

1 The Honorable Marsha J. Pechman

7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 8 AT SEATTLE

9 MAJID ALFARAG, Case No. 2:22-cv-01745-MJP 10 Plaintiff, STIPULATED MOTION AND 11 v. [PROPOSED] ORDER FOR EXTENSION OF TIME TO RESPOND TO MOTION FOR 12 LOUIS DEJOY, Postmaster General, U.S. JUDGMENT ON THE PLEADINGS AND Postal Service, CORRESPONDING MODIFICATION OF 13 CASE SCHEDULE Defendant. 14 Noted for Consideration: May 8, 2024 15 16 As a result of Plaintiff’s request for more time to search for legal representation, the parties 17 hereby STIPULATE, AGREE and JOINTLY REQUEST an order extending the response and 18 corresponding reply deadlines for Defendant’s Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings by 60 days 19 modifying the deadlines set forth in the Court’s July 21, 2023, Order Setting Trial and Related 20 Dates (Dkt. 22), as follows: 21

22 23 24 1 Current Proposed New Deadline Deadline Deadline 2 Plaintiff’s Response to Defendant’s Motion for 5/13/2024 7/15/2024 3 Judgment on the Pleading due by Defendant’s Reply in Support of Motion for 4 5/17/2024 7/19/2024 Judgment on the Pleadings due by 5 Discovery completed by 5/20/2024 7/19/2024 6 All dispositive motions must be filed by 6/17/2024 8/16/2024 7 8 In addition, the parties ask the Court to set a new trial date of no earlier than December 16, 9 2024, with all trial related deadlines set corresponding to the new trial date. The parties have set 10 forth their current scheduling conflicts below: 11 Plaintiff: 12 Defendant: December 26, 2024–January 3, 2025; January 14–20, 2025; February 24–March 11, 13 2025; April 14–18, 20205; May 12–15, 2025. 14 A court may modify a schedule for good cause. Fed. R. Civ. P. 16(b)(4). Continuing pretrial 15 and trial dates is within the discretion of the trial judge. King v. State of California, 784 F.2d 910, 16 912 (9th Cir. 1986). Good cause exists for extending the specific deadlines noted above, as Plaintiff 17 is requesting additional time to respond to Defendant’s Motion in order to seek counsel. Defendant 18 joins in the request in order to provide Plaintiff sufficient time. 19 // 20 // 21 // 22 // 23 // 24 1 SO STIPULATED. 2 DATED this 8th day of May, 2024. 3 Respectfully submitted,

4 TESSA M. GORMAN United States Attorney 5 s/ Rebecca S. Cohen s/ Majid Alfarag 6 REBECCA S. COHEN, WSBA No. 31767 Majid Alfarag 10032 Edmonds Way, Apt 210 7 s/ Alixandria K. Morris Edmonds, WA 98020 ALIXANDRIA K. MORRIS, TX No. 24095373 Phone: 509-879-4237 8 Assistant United States Attorneys Email: majid.alfarag@yahoo.com United States Attorney’s Office 9 Western District of Washington Pro Se Plaintiff 700 Stewart Street, Suite 5220 10 Seattle, Washington 98101-1271 Phone: 206-553-7970 11 Fax: 206-553-4073 Email: rebecca.cohen@usdoj.gov 12 Email: alixandria.morris@usdoj.gov

13 Attorneys for Defendant DeJoy

14 I certify that this memorandum contains 258 words, in compliance with the Local Civil Rules. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 1 ORDER 2 It is hereby ORDERED that the parties’ motion is GRANTED. 3

4 DATED this 8th day of May, 2024. 5 A 6

7 MARSHA J. PECHMAN 8 United States Senior District Judge

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