Janusz v. Northeast Utilities Service Company et al
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ORDER approving (with changes) 8 Discovery Plan. Length of Trial 4-5 days. Case Track: Standard. So Ordered by Chief Judge Joseph N. Laplante. Summary Judgment Motions due by 1/23/2013.(cmp)
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
Judith Janusz
v.
Civil No. 12-cv-00001-JL
Northeast Utilities
Service Company, et al.
ORDER AFTER PRELIMINARY
PRETRIAL CONFERENCE
The Preliminary Pretrial Conference was held in chambers on
March 5, 2012.
Defendant Public Service Company of New Hampshire (PSNH) is
dismissed from the case, and by agreement of the parties and
counsel, all allegations in the complaint against PSNH shall be
construed as identified allegations against Northeast Utilities
Service Company.
The Discovery Plan (document no. 8) is approved as
submitted, with the following changes:
• Summary judgment deadline - 120 days prior to final
pretrial conference
• Jury trial - June, 2013
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: March 7, 2012
cc:
Leslie H. Johnson, Esq.
William D. Pandolph, Esq.
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