Young et al v. The Hartford Insurance Company

Filing 13

ORDER denying 8 Motion to Remand; approving 12 Discovery Plan. Length of Trial 2 - 4 days. Case Track: Expedited Summary Judgment Motions due by 10/31/2011. Mediation Follow Up on 1/2/2012. So Ordered by Judge Joseph N. Laplante. (dae)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
Benjamin Young, et al.
v.

Civil No. 11-cv-00240-JL

The Hartford Insurance Company

ORDER AFTER PRELIMINARY
PRETRIAL CONFERENCE

The Preliminary Pretrial Conference was held in chambers on
June 29, 2011.
The motion to remand (doc. no. 8) is denied.
The Discovery Plan (document no. 12) is approved as
submitted, with the following changes:
• Jury trial - March 2012
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.

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

June 29, 2011

R. Peter Taylor, Esq.
Harvey Weiner, Esq.
Robert A. McCall, Esq.

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