Bedard v. Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., et al

Filing 17

ORDER approving 16 Discovery Plan. Length of Trial 1 - 2 days. Case Track: Standard. So Ordered by Judge Joseph N. Laplante. Plaintiff to file Amended Complaint by 8/1/11; answers due in accordance with Federal Rules. Summary Judgment Motions due by 11/16/2011. Dispositive Motion Filing Deadline 7/15/2011. Mediation Follow Up on 1/30/2012. (dae)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
Kimberly A. Ruff Bedard
v.

Civil No. 11-cv-00117-JL

Mortgage Electronic Registration
Services, Inc., et al.

ORDER AFTER PRELIMINARY
PRETRIAL CONFERENCE
The Preliminary Pretrial Conference was held in chambers on
June 16, 2011.
The plaintiff will file an amended complaint, accurately
articulating her claims, on or before August 1, 2011.

Answers

will be due in accordance with the Federal Rules of Civil
Procedure.

The defendants shall be mindful not to assert invalid

or inapplicable “boilerplate” defenses.
The defendants have stipulated that notice of the
foreclosure at issues was invalid.
The Discovery Plan (document no. 16) is approved as
submitted, with the following changes:
• Close of discovery - November 1, 2011
• Expert discovery Plaintiff’s expert disclosure - September 15, 2011
Defendant’s expert disclosure - September 15, 2011
Challenges - 60 days before trial

• Amendments to pleadings - September 7, 2011
Summary Judgment.

The parties and counsel are advised that

compliance with Rule 56(e) and Local Rule 7.2(b), regarding
evidentiary support for factual assertions, and specification and
delineation of material issues of disputed fact, will be
required.
Discovery disputes.

Discovery disputes will be handled by

the undersigned judge, as opposed to the Magistrate Judge, in the
normal course.

No motion to compel is necessary.

The party or

counsel seeking discovery-related relief should confer with
adverse counsel to choose mutually available dates, and then
contact the Deputy Clerk to schedule a conference call with the
court.

The court will inform counsel and parties what written

materials, if any, should be submitted in advance of the
conference call.
Customary motions to compel discovery, while disfavored by
the undersigned judge, are nonetheless permissible.

If counsel

prefer traditional discovery litigation to the conference call
procedure set forth above, any such motion to compel should
expressly request, in the title of the motion, a referral to the
United States Magistrate Judge.
normally be granted.

Such referral requests will

If the Magistrate Judge is recused,

alternate arrangements will be made.

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SO ORDERED.
____________________________
Joseph N. Laplante
United States District Judge
Dated:
cc:

June 20, 2011

John P. Kalled, Esq.
Geoffrey M. Coan, Esq.
Paula-Lee Chambers, Esq.

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