Collins v. Burl et al

Filing 47

ORDER referring the case back to Magistrate Judge Beth Deere, Discovery due by 8/2/2013; defts' motion for summary judgment due on or before 8/2/13. Collins's status report is due as soon as possible and no later than May 3, 2013. Signed by Judge D. P. Marshall Jr. on 4/19/13. (kpr) (Docket entry modified on 4/19/2013 to remove the linkage.) (thd).

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS
EASTERN DIVISION
TYRONE L. COLLINS
ADC #111854
v.

PLAINTIFF
No. 2:11-cv-40-DPM-BD

DANNY BURL; JAMES
CRUMPTON; POLLY M. JAMES; and
JANICE BUFORD GRAY

DEFENDANTS

ORDER
To best use scarce judicial resources efficiently and effectively, this case
needs more development before any trial. It is referred back to Magistrate
Judge Deere. Discovery is reopened. As directed, appointed counsel shall
maximize the use of informal requests for documents, focused written
discovery, and informal interviews, and minimize the use of depositions. Any
deposition should be as short and focused as possible. Defendants may move
for summary judgment on or before 2 August 2013. Discovery will end on the
same date. There will be no independent medical examination until after the
Court decides, assuming some injury, whether Collins has claims that need

trying. Collins’s status report on whether to pursue any race-discrimination
claim, and on whether his conditions-of-confinement and inadequate-medicalcare claims are really the same claim, is due as soon as possible and no later
than 3 May 2013.
So Ordered.

________________________
D.P. Marshall Jr.
United States District Judge
19 April 2013

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