Gutowski v. McKesson Corporation et al

Filing 38

SCHEDULING ORDER. ADR Stipulation or Notice 8/24/2016. Fact discovery cut-off 9/1/2016. Case Management Statement due by 9/7/2016. Further Case Management Conference set for 9/14/2016 at 2:00 PM in Courtroom 9, 19th Floor, San Francisco. Dead line to add parties or amend the pleadings 12/30/2016. Expert disclosures 7/28/2017. Expert rebuttal 9/1/2017. Expert discovery cut-off 10/27/2017. Deadline to file dispositive motions 11/17/2017. Pretrial conference statement due 1/30/2018. Fi nal Pretrial Conference set for 2/9/2018 at 2:00 PM in Courtroom 2, 4th Floor, Oakland. Jury Selection set for 3/5/2018 - 3/20/2016 at 8:30 AM in Courtroom 9, 19th Floor, San Francisco before Hon. Jon S. Tigar. Signed by Judge Jon S. Tigar on February 11, 2016. (wsn, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 2/11/2016)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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JASON T. GUTOWSKI,

Case No. 14-cv-05521-JST

Plaintiff,
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v.

SCHEDULING ORDER

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MCKESSON CORPORATION, et al.,

United States District Court
Northern District of California

Defendants.
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The Court hereby sets the following case deadlines pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil
Procedure 16 and Civil Local Rule 16-10:

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Deadline

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Deadline to add parties or amend the pleadings

December 30, 2016

Fact discovery cut-off

September 1, 2016

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Expert disclosures

July 28, 2017

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Expert rebuttal

September 1, 2017

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Expert discovery cut-off

October 27, 2017

Deadline to file dispositive motions

November 17, 2017

Pretrial conference statement due

January 30, 2018

Pretrial conference

February 9, 2018 at
2:00 p.m.

Trial

March 5, 2018 at
8:30 a.m.

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United States District Court
Northern District of California

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to the Northern District’s ADR rules and the Court’s prior scheduling orders. See ECF No. 6.
The parties have represented to the Court that they believe informal settlement discussions are
adequate at this early stage of the litigation. To ensure that the parties give proper attention to the
potential for alternative resolution, the Court now orders that the parties take the following actions
by August 24, 2016: meet and confer re: early settlement and ADR process selection; file an ADR
Certification signed by all parties and counsel (form available at cand.uscourts.gov); and file either
a Stipulation to ADR Process or a Notice of Need for ADR Phone Conference (form available at
cand.uscourts.gov).
The Court will conduct a further Case Management Conference on September 14, 2016 at
2:00 p.m. A Joint Case Management Statement is due by September 7, 2016.

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Counsel may not modify these dates without leave of court. The parties shall comply with
the Court’s standing orders, which are available at cand.uscourts.gov/jstorders.

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The parties must take all necessary steps to conduct discovery, compel discovery, hire
counsel, retain experts, and manage their calendars so that they can complete discovery in a timely
manner and appear at trial on the noticed and scheduled dates. All counsel must arrange their
calendars to accommodate these dates, or arrange to substitute or associate in counsel who can.

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The Court notes that the parties have not yet complied with their ADR obligations pursuant

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Deadline

Trial dates set by this Court should be regarded as firm. Requests for continuance are
disfavored. The Court will not consider any event subsequently scheduled by a party, partycontrolled witness, expert or attorney that conflicts with the above trial date as good cause to grant
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a continuance. The Court will not consider the pendency of settlement discussions as good cause

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to grant a continuance.

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IT IS SO ORDERED.
Dated: February 11, 2016

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JON S. TIGAR
United States District Judge

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United States District Court
Northern District of California

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