Strawn v. Shenandoah Charters et al

Filing 19

CASE MANAGEMENT AND PRETRIAL ORDER. Signed by Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton on 5/2/11. (nah, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 5/2/2011)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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NICOLE STRAWN,
Plaintiff(s),

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No. C 10-4015 PJH

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CASE MANAGEMENT
AND PRETRIAL ORDER

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SHENANDOAH CHARTERS, et al.,

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Defendant(s).
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Good cause appearing, the court hereby adopts the case management statement of the
parties except as modified by the following:

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PRETRIAL SCHEDULE

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TRIAL DATE: Monday, May 21, 2012, at 8:30 a.m., Courtroom 3, 3rd Fl.
JURY []
COURT [x]

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TRIAL LENGTH: No more than 4 days.

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PRETRIAL CONFERENCE DATE: April 26, 2012, at 2:00 p.m.

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DISPOSITIVE MOTIONS (Only one summary judgment motion per party is permitted without
leave of court) TO BE HEARD BY: January 18, 2012.

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NON-EXPERT DISCOVERY CUTOFF: November 18, 2011.
DISCLOSURE OF EXPERTS (retained and non-retained) : November 18, 2011.
EXPERT DISCOVERY CUTOFF: January 11, 2012.
DISCOVERY LIMITATIONS:
Interrogatories:
Depositions:

Requests for Documents:
Requests for Admissions:

DISCOVERY DISPUTES REFERRED TO MAGISTRATE JUDGE AFTER MOTION IS FILED.
LAST DAY TO AMEND PLEADINGS: no later than 90 days before fact discovery cutoff date
a motion or a stipulation must be filed.
[] SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE with Magistrate Judge during, , or as soon thereafter as is
convenient for the assigned judge.
[x] REFERRED TO ADR FOR Private Mediation to be completed by 10/18/11.
[] Certification of interested entities or persons (L.R. 3-16) to be filed in 10 days.
ADDITIONAL ORDERS:

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PRETRIAL INSTRUCTIONS
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A.

PRETRIAL MOTIONS

1. All dispositive motions are heard no later than 120 days before trial, unless leave
of court is obtained for another deadline.
2. Only one summary judgment motion may be filed by each side, absent leave of
court. Leave of court may be sought if multiple parties comprise one or both sides. Leave of
court may be obtained by filing a motion for administrative relief pursuant to Civ. L. R. 7-11,
or by requesting a case management conference or informal telephone conference.
3. Separate statements of undisputed facts in support of or in opposition to motions
for summary judgment shall NOT be filed. See Civil L. R. 56-2. The parties may file a truly
joint statement of undisputed facts only if all parties agree that the facts are undisputed.
4. Objections to evidence may no longer be filed separately but must be contained
within a brief or memorandum. Civil L. R. 7-3.
5. Each party filing or opposing a motion shall also serve and file a proposed order
which sets forth the relief or action sought and a short statement of the rationale of decision,
including citation of authority that the party requests the court to adopt.
6. Chambers copies of each electronically-filed document must include on each page
the running header created by the ECF system and must be delivered to the Clerk's Office by
noon the day following its filing. All documents must be stapled or bound by a two-pronged
fastener, and all exhibits to declarations or requests for judicial notice must be tabbed.
7. Footnotes in briefs appearing in smaller than the 12-point font required for the text,
will be stricken, see Civil L. R. 3-4(c)(2), as will footnotes that are so numerous as to be clearly
designed to defeat the page limits found at Civil L. R. 7-2 - 7-4.
8. Motions pursuant to Daubert v. Merrill Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 579
(1993), challenging the reliability of expert testimony, may be noticed for hearing on the date
dispositive motions will be heard or on any available hearing date up to and including the date
of the final pretrial conference. Irrespective of the hearing date, the briefs shall be filed in
accordance with Civil L. R. 7-2 - 7-5, that is, on a 35-day briefing schedule.
9. Motions in limine are limited to motions to exclude specific items of evidence on
a ground and upon such authority as would be sufficient to sustain an objection to such
evidence at trial. The court will not generally consider a motion presenting a purely legal issue
in the guise of a motion in limine.
10. Discovery motions will be referred to a Magistrate Judge for resolution. The
words "Discovery Matter" shall appear in the caption of all documents relating to discovery to
insure proper routing.
11. Confidential and/or sealed documents shall be handled in accordance with this
court's standing order and Civil L.R. 79-5, both of which the parties shall consult before moving
for a protective order or requesting a sealing order. Requests to seal documents used in
conjunction with dispositive motions are rarely granted and then only upon a showing of the
most compelling of reasons.

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FINAL PRETRIAL CONFERENCE
1. Each party shall attend personally or by counsel who will try the case.

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2. Not less than 35 days prior to the pretrial conference, all counsel and/or parties
shall meet and confer regarding preparation of the joint pretrial statement.

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3. Not less than 28 days prior to the pretrial conference, counsel and/or parties shall:

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a.

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Serve and file a joint pretrial statement. (Separately filed statements will
not be accepted by the court and monetary sanctions will be imposed
upon the party failing to cooperate in the preparation of a joint statement).
The pretrial statement shall include the following:
(i)

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(ii)

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(iii)

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(iv)

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(v)
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(vii)

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(viii)

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Serve and file trial briefs (not to exceed 25 pages), which shall specify
each cause of action and defense remaining to be tried along with a
statement of the applicable legal standard (no opposition shall be filed);

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Serve and file no more than ten motions in limine, which shall be filed in
one document not to exceed 25 pages;

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Serve and file a list of deposition excerpts for witnesses who will not
testify in person, (specifying the witness, page and line references) and
other discovery responses that will be offered at trial;

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Serve and file a list of all witnesses to be called at trial, in person or by
deposition, other than solely for impeachment or rebuttal, with a brief
statement describing the substance of the testimony to be given;

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Serve and file a numerical list of exhibits that will be offered as evidence
in a party's case in chief in support of a claim or defense, with a brief
statement describing the substance and purpose of each exhibit and the
name of the sponsoring witness;

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Exchange exhibits which shall be premarked with an exhibit sticker
(example attached), tabbed and in binders. Plaintiff shall use numbers (1,
2, 3, etc.) and defendant shall use numbers preceded by a letter (A-1, A-2,
A-3, etc.). Additional parties shall also use a letter preceding numbers (B1, B-2, B-3, or C-1, C-2, C-3, etc.).

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A brief description of the substance of the claims and defenses
which remain to be decided.
A detailed statement of all relief sought, itemizing all elements of
damages claimed.
A statement of all relevant undisputed facts to which the parties
will stipulate for incorporation into the trial record without the
necessity of supporting testimony or exhibits.
A statement of all relevant disputed facts which remain to be
decided.
A statement of stipulations requested or proposed.
A brief statement of disputed points of law concerning liability and
relief. Legal argument on these points shall be reserved for the
trial briefs.
A statement of whether bifurcation or a separate trial of specific
issues is feasible and desired.
A statement summarizing the status of settlement negotiations and
indicating whether further negotiations are likely to be productive.

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Submit two sets for jury trials and three sets for court trials of all
premarked exhibits to the Clerk's Office (exhibits are not filed);

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Serve and file any request regarding the treatment of confidential or
sealed documents.

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Serve and file proposed joint voir dire questions and joint jury instructions
for cases to be tried by jury;

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Serve and file proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law for cases
or claims to be tried by the court.

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Serve and file a proposed verdict form which contains no reference to
submitting party.

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4. No party shall be permitted to call any witness or offer any exhibit in its case in chief
that is not disclosed in these pretrial filings without leave of court and for good cause.
5. Not less than 14 days prior to the pretrial conference, counsel and/or parties shall
serve and file any opposition to a motion in limine and any counter deposition designations. No
replies shall be filed. All motions shall be heard at the pretrial conference unless otherwise
ordered. The parties shall not file separate objections, apart from those contained in the
motions in limine, to the opposing party's witness list, exhibit list or discovery designations.

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C.

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Jury Selection shall proceed as follows: The Jury Commissioner will summon 20 to 25
prospective jurors. The Courtroom Deputy will select their names at random and seat them in
the courtroom in the order in which their names are called. Voir dire will be conducted of
sufficient venire members so that six to eight will remain after all peremptory challenges and
an anticipated number of hardship dismissals and cause challenges have been made.

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JURY TRIAL

The court will then take cause challenges and discuss hardship claims at side bar. The
court will inform counsel which hardship claims and cause challenges will be granted, but will
not announce those dismissals until the selection process is completed. Peremptory challenges
will be made in writing. The court will strike at one time those with meritorious hardship claims,
those excused for cause, and those challenged peremptorily, and then seat the first six to eight
people remaining in numerical order.
The attached voir dire questionnaire shall be given to the venire members and copies
of the responses will be made available to counsel at the beginning of voir dire. Counsel shall
submit a joint set of additional voir dire questions to be posed by the court. Any voir dire
questions on which counsel cannot agree may be submitted separately. Counsel will be
permitted brief follow-up voir dire after the court's questioning.
The following jury instructions from the Ninth Circuit Manual of Model Jury Instructions
Civil (2007 Edition) shall be given absent objection: 1.0 - 1.4, 1.6 - 1.14, 1.18 - 1.19, 3.1 - 3.4.
Counsel shall submit a joint set of these instructions along with case specific instructions using
the Ninth Circuit Manual where appropriate. Any instructions on which counsel cannot agree
may be submitted separately. Each instruction shall be typed in full on a separate page with
citations to the authority upon which it is based and a reference to the party submitting it. A
second blind copy of each instruction shall also be submitted omitting the citation to authority
and the reference to the submitting party, but retaining the title of the instruction.

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TRIAL SCHEDULE
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The court's trial schedule is 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. with two fifteen-minute breaks, on
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

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No provision of this order may be changed except by written order of this court upon its
own motion or upon motion of one or more parties made pursuant to Civil. L. R. 7-11 with a
showing of good cause. Parties may file a formal brief, but a letter brief will suffice. The
requesting party shall serve the opposing party on the same day the motion is filed and the
opposing party shall submit a response as soon as possible but no later than four days after
service.
If the modification sought is an extension of a deadline contained herein, the motion must
be brought before expiration of that deadline. The parties may not modify the pretrial
schedule by stipulation. A conflict with a court date set after the date of this order does not
constitute good cause. The parties are advised that if they stipulate to a change in the discovery
schedule, they do so at their own risk. The only discovery schedule that the court will enforce
is the one set in this order.

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PROCEDURE FOR AMENDING THIS ORDER

IT IS SO ORDERED.
Dated: May 2, 2011
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PHYLLIS J. HAMILTON
United States District Judge

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CONFIDENTIAL
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JUROR QUESTIONNAIRE

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Please fill out this form as completely as possible and print clearly. This will assist the judge
and the lawyers in selecting a jury and will save time for them and for you. Because copies will
be made for the attorneys and the judge, do not write on the back of any page. If you need
more room, continue at the bottom of the page. Thank you for your cooperation.
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Your name:

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Your age:

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City in which you reside:

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If you have lived there for fewer than five years, where did you live before:

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Your place of birth:

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Your marital status: (circle one)

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single

married

separated

divorced

widowed

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What is your occupation and how long have you worked in it?
please describe your main occupation when you were working).

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Who is (or was) your employer? _________________________________

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If you have held this job for fewer than five years, describe your previous job:

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(If you are retired,

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If you are married, please list your spouse's occupation.

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If you have children, please list their ages and genders and, if they are employed, please
give their occupations.

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Please describe your education background:
Highest grade completed:

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College and/or vocational schools you have attended:

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Major areas of study:
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Have you served in the military? _________________________________

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Have you ever had jury experience?

No. of times?

If yes: State/County Court

Federal Court

When?
Was it a civil or criminal case?
Did any of the juries reach a verdict?

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