Yates v. Sweet Potato Enterprise, Inc. et al

Filing 125

ORDER for parties to confer with courtroom deputy Lashanda Scott to pick a trial date and submit a scheduling order that comports with the timelines in the attached order. The deadline is noon on Wednesday, June 25, 2014. (Beeler, Laurel) (Filed on 6/20/2014)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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San Francisco Division

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For the Northern District of California

United States District Court

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CRAIG YATES, an individual,

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Plaintiff,

No. C 11-01950 LB
JUNE 20, 2014 SCHEDULING ORDER

v.
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SWEET POTATO ENTERPRISE, INC., a
California Corporation dba POPEYES STORE
#2794; and KUAN L. NG and HELEN L. NG,
Trustees, of THE KUAN L. NG AND HELEN
L. NG REVOCABLE TRUST OF 1993,

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Defendants.
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The parties asked the court to set a trial date at the case management conference set for June 26,

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2014 at 11 a.m. The court previously ordered certain filings. See 4/21/14 Amended Pretrial Order

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(Bench Trial), ECF No. 110. Among the deficiencies in the parties' filings are the following:

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1. Joint Exhibit List. The parties must file a “a joint exhibit list with columns for exhibit

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number, offered into evidence, admitted into evidence, sponsoring witness, limits on use, and

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description and bates range (see section V.C regarding numbering and organization of exhibits).”

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Id. at 3.

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2. Joint Proposed Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law and Separate Disputed Proposed

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Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law. These are required. See id. at 3-4. The parties have not

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filed them.

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3. Separate Memoranda on Disputed Conclusions of Law. These are required. Id. They have
not been filed. The requirement is different from the requirement to file trial briefs.

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The parties must review the pretrial order and comply with all of its requirements.

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In addition, the parties need to confer with courtroom deputy Lashanda Scott before Thursday,

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select a trial date, and submit a schedule that comports with the following time lines.

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Case Event

Filing Date/Disclosure
Deadline/Hearing Date

Meet and Confer Re Pretrial Filings

4 weeks before due date for
pretrial filings

Pretrial filings due

5 weeks before final pretrial
conference

Oppositions, Objections, Exhibits, and Depo Designations due

4 weeks before final Pretrial
Conference

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Final Pretrial Conference

Two Thursdays before trial at
1:30 p.m.

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Trial

____, 2014, at 8:30 a.m.

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Length of Trial

1 day

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These dates are more expansive than the court’s normal dates, but given the case’s history, the
court orders them.

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The schedule must be submitted in the form of a proposed amended pretrial order. The first line

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must read, “The following is the parties’ agreed-to trial schedule.” The next section must be a chart

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that is identical to the chart above with deadlines that comport with the chart. Thereafter, the order

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must conclude with the lines, “Stipulated” and then the parties’ signatures, and then the standard “It

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is so ordered” language that appears at the end of this order. The order must be efiled by noon on

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Wednesday, June 25, 2014, and a word-processible copy must be emailed at the same time to the

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court’s orders box at [e-mail].

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IT IS SO ORDERED.
Dated: June 20, 2014
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LAUREL BEELER
United States Magistrate Judge

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