But he then granted the delay.
Chutkan granted the delay and set a new court date for Dec. 19.
The university said it would ask the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, in Cincinnati, to grant the delay that Judge Friedman rejected.
A federal district judge granted the delay on Dec. 19, but on Dec. 29, a federal appeals court ordered immediate compliance.
The execution of a Texas death row inmate was postponed today by a state judge who granted the delay because the prisoner's court-appointed lawyer had missed the deadline for filing a clemency petition on his behalf.
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of United States District Court in Manhattan granted the delay while calling the motion "troublesome" and saying that prosecutors had made "no showing as to why the investigation has not been concluded".
May's short extension request left E.U. leaders facing a tricky decision: whether to grant the delay when they are unsure she can get the divorce deal approved by her own Parliament.
If the court grants the delay, the N.F.L. will remain shut down — no player signings, no trades, no minicamps — until the same appeals court decides the league's appeal of the injunction, a process that could stretch well into June and possibly into July.
Herald Price Fahringer, the lawyer for much of the city's the sex-themed industry today and back when Justice Stevens granted the delay, said Friday that he did not recall seeing the Stevens room when he went to Scores once during the case to see what it was like.
Defense attorney John Cotsirilos was granted the delay Wednesday by San Diego Superior Court Judge Barbara Gamer.
