Hamilton v. RadioShack Corporation

Filing 69

ORDER RE: DISCOVERY DISPUTES (lblc1, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 6/7/2012)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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Northern District of California

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San Francisco Division
WILLIAM HAMILTON,

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For the Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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Plaintiff,

No. C 11-00888 LB
ORDER

v.
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[ECF No. 42]
RADIOSHACK CORPORATION, et al.,

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Defendants.
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The parties seem to have a hard time agreeing about anything including whether a joint

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discovery letter can be finalized and filed. See, e.g., ECF No. 67. To facilitate presentation of issues

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going forward, the court prepared a chart to allow raising of scheduling issues, discovery issues, and

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other issues. There are separate sections for each. The party raising an issue goes first. The party

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responding goes next. Each party gets one more round of it. Then each party gets one section with

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their proposed compromise (if any).

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To the extent that there is a discovery issue, the chart should be part of the letter brief and should

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comply with the page limits in the court’s standing order (meaning, no more than five pages). All

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disputes require an in-person meet and confer. The parties’ position statements may not be more

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than 250 words per issue. A more complicated legal standard may be set forth in a legal standards

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section of a brief and preferably should be a joint legal standard. The position statement should not

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repeat the legal standards but instead should focus the specific issue. The parties’ documents and

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and legal authorities supporting their positions are limited to five items each per issue.

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ORDER

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The parties should follow this procedure for all future disputes including those to be addressed at

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the telephonic conference now set for Friday, June 8, 2012, at 10:30 a.m. Any submissions should

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be filed and the chart should be emailed in word processible form to the court’s orders box at

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[e-mail]. The court will email a word processible version to counsel’s email of

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record. The parties should submit their chart by 9:30 a.m. on Friday, June 8, 2012.

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IT IS SO ORDERED.
Dated: June 7, 2012

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LAUREL BEELER
United States Magistrate Judge

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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Parties’ Issues Charts in Hamilton v. Radioshack Corp., No. C 11-0888 LB
Issue
Scheduling Issues

Discovery Issues

Other Issues

Short Statement of Party’s Position

Evidence and Legal Authorities
Supporting Party’s Position

Parties’ Issues Charts in Hamilton v. Radioshack Corp., No. C 11-0888 LB
Issue

DATED:

Short Statement of Party’s Position

Evidence and Legal Authorities
Supporting Party’s Position

Respectfully submitted,

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TRACY THOMSON
Attorneys for Defendant

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MATTHEW STEPHENSON
Attorney for Plaintiff