Southern Home Care Services, Inc. v. Visiting Nurse Services, Inc. of Southern Connecticut et al

Filing 35

Scheduling Order: A hearing on the plaintiff's motion for preliminary injunction (doc. #5) is scheduled for 10/1/2013 at 10:00 AM in the East Courtroom before Judge Martinez, and shall continue, if necessary, through 10/3/13. See attached order. (Constantine, A.)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT
SOUTHERN HOME CARE SERVICES
INC. d/b/a RESCARE HOMECARE,
Plaintiff,

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VISITING NURSE SERVICES, INC.
OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT,
MAURICE BUNNELL, R.N. and
RHONDA MARSHALL, R.N.,
Defendants.

CASE NO.

3:13cv792(RNC)

SCHEDULING ORDER
It is hereby ORDERED that:
1.

A hearing on the plaintiff's motion for preliminary

injunction (doc. #5) shall be held on October 1, 2013 at 10:00 a.m.
and shall continue, if necessary, on October 2 and October 3, 2013.
2.

Pursuant to the parties' agreement, initial requests for

production of documents and interrogatories will be served on or
after June 28, 2013.
12, 2013.

Initial disclosures will be served on July

Document discovery shall be completed by August 8, 2013.

Deposition of fact witnesses shall be completed by September 13,
2013.
3.

Prior to September 13, 2013, counsel for the parties

shall confer in an attempt to arrive at stipulations of fact and to
agree on exhibits that may be introduced without objection at the
hearing.
3.

By September 19, 2013, each party shall file a memorandum

of law.

In addition to setting forth its version of the facts and

the legal argument in support of its position, each party shall
include in its memorandum a list of witnesses who will testify at
the hearing and a brief description of each witness's testimony.
If a party objects to all or any part of the anticipated testimony
of any witness, the objection and its grounds shall be set forth.
4.

Also by September 19, 2013, the parties shall file a

stipulation of all facts not in dispute.
5.

Also by September 19, 2013, each party shall file a list

of exhibits that will be introduced at the hearing.

The exhibit

list shall denote the exhibit number and a brief description of the
exhibit.
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The list also shall note whether the parties agree that

particular

exhibit

should

objection at the hearing.
the

proponent

of

the

be

admitted

as

evidence

without

If there is an objection to an exhibit,

exhibit

must

set

forth

the

basis

for

admissibility of the exhibit and the opponent must set forth the
basis of the objection.

Except for rebuttal and impeachment,

exhibits not listed will not be admissible at trial without good
cause shown.
Prior to the beginning of the hearing, each party shall
deliver to the courtroom deputy clerk a copy of the exhibit list,
shall

premark

its

exhibits,

and

shall

deliver

its

premarked

exhibits to the courtroom deputy clerk.

Exhibit stickers are

available from the courtroom deputy clerk.

All exhibits shall be

marked numerically and say “Plaintiff” or “Defendant”.

If there is

more than one plaintiff or defendant, the exhibits shall identify
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the party offering the exhibit (e.g., Defendant Smith, Exhibit #1).
If the same exhibit is offered by more than one party, the parties
shall mark only one exhibit by placing their respective exhibit
stickers on the one exhibit (e.g., Plaintiff Jones, Exhibit #2;
Defendant Smith Exhibit #5) The parties shall prepare two courtesy
copies of the documentary exhibits for the court’s use during the
hearing.

The courtesy copies shall be arranged in order in a

notebook with tabs bearing the exhibit number.

If possible, the

documentary exhibits of both parties shall be combined into one
notebook.

All copies shall be stamped “Copy” to distinguish them

from the original exhibit.

The “Copy” stamp shall be in a color

other than black to show that the word “copy” is not part of the
exhibit itself.
SO ORDERED at Hartford, Connecticut this 27th day of June,
2013.
________/s/____________________
Donna F. Martinez
United States Magistrate Judge

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