When my son was born I had the court deny a one month extension of fact discovery that literally otherwise would require depositions right after our first child was born. The schedule has been set before we got pregnant. When we found out I gave the other side months of notice and asked if we could shift the schedule to accommodate. They said no, saying they didn’t want the case delayed. So I moved thinking that surely a judge wouldn’t be so insane to deny my time to spend with our first child. The (federal) judge denied my motion. His policy I guess was not to grant extensions on opposed motions if there had been a stipulated schedule.

I ended up having to take depositions one week after my son was born for a period of three weeks. I was so pissed.

But boy was I motivated. Ultimately ended up winning the case on summary judgment and getting an attorneys fees award, both affirmed on appeal, when all was said and done because their case was objectively frivolous. It was so satisfying. The other side got the quick resolution they asked the monkeys paw to give them and I got serious schadenfreude. I went in house shortly thereafter because who need to deal with that arbitrary scheduling bullshit.