When I filed my California Open Carry lawsuit, Nichols v. Brown et al, in response to my Complaint the defendants filed motions to dismiss. The Federal Central District of California did not allow pro se plaintiffs to file electronically and I did not have a PACER account at that time. And so the court mailed me a notice that I had 14 days to write and file my oppositions to the motions to dismiss, a notice which I did not receive in the mail for several days which is odd considering that the letter traveled less than 20 hours.
Regardless, on June 6th, the State of California filed a motion to dismiss Baird et al v. Becerra. The State incorrectly calendared a hearing date which the Court corrected the next day (June 7th). And then there was nothing on the docket, no opposition to the motion to dismiss, nothing until June 21(three weeks after the motion to dismiss was filed) when the parties filed a joint stipulation to extend the briefing schedule and hearing date.
Today, the court granted the proposed stipulation. The new dates are:
July 8, 2019: Plaintiffs to file preliminary injunction motion.
July 29, 2019: Plaintiffs to file opposition to Defendant’s motion to dismiss.
August 2, 2019: Defendant to file opposition to Plaintiffs’ preliminary injunction
motion.
August 30, 2019: Parties to file joint status report, Plaintiffs to file reply in support of
preliminary injunction motion, and Defendant to file reply in support of motion to
dismiss.
September 6, 2019, at 10:00 a.m.: Status conference and hearing on Plaintiffs’
preliminary injunction motion and Defendant’s motion to dismiss.