Bullen et al v. Bank of America, N.A., et al.
Filing
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ORDER approving 18 Discovery Plan; complaint amended as outlined. Length of Trial 1-2 Days. Case Track: Standard. So Ordered by Judge Joseph N. Laplante. Summary Judgment Motions due by 3/30/2012. Dispositive Motion Filing Deadline 9/30/2011. Settlement is likely.(dae)
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
Christine Bullen, et al.
v.
Civil No. 11-cv-00309-JL
Bank of America, N.A., et al.
ORDER AFTER PRELIMINARY
PRETRIAL CONFERENCE
The Preliminary Pretrial Conference was held in chambers on
September 19, 2011.
The plaintiff’s complaint is amended as follows:
• ¶17 - “April” is substituted for “the fall.”
• ¶48 - “Bank of America” is substituted for “BAC.”
The Discovery Plan (document no. 18) is approved as
submitted.
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:
September 20, 2011
Keriann Roman, Esq.
Jill K. Hauff, Esq.
Mark E. Porada, Esq.
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