United Realty Advisors, LP et al v. Verschleiser et al

Filing 503

TRIAL NOTICE: Be advised that the trial in this matter will commence with jury selection on Monday, March 2, 2020, at 9:00 a.m., at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse, 500 Pearl Street, New York, New York. The parties are to inqu ire with the Clerk's Office to learn the courtroom number. The trial schedule will be Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. with fifteen-minute breaks in the morning and afternoon and a one-hour lunch break. Each side is limited t o a total of forty-five hours to argue and to examine and cross-examine witnesses. The parties' proposed joint final pretrial order, as well as any proposed voir dire questions, are due by February 21, 2020. All trial exhibits must be marked (e.g., P-1, P-2, etc.; D-1, D-2, etc.) in advance of trial and each side must exchange its exhibit books, as well as any demonstrative exhibits, with each other no later than one week before trial. Additionally, each side must provide the Court wi th two copies of its exhibit book (one for the Court, one for the Court's clerks). (And as further set forth herein.) SO ORDERED. (Pretrial Order due by 2/21/2020., Jury Selection set for 3/2/2020 at 09:00AM before Judge Bernard A. Friedman.) (Signed by Senior United States District Judge Bernard A. Friedman, Sitting by Special Designation on 12/20/2019) Filed In Associated Cases: 1:14-cv-05903-BAF, 1:14-cv-08084-BAF(jca)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
UNITED REALTY ADVISORS, LP, et al.,
Plaintiffs,

Civil Action No. 14-cv-5903
Civil Action No. 14-cv-8084

vs.
HON. BERNARD A. FRIEDMAN
ELI VERSCHLEISER, et al.,
Defendants.
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TRIAL NOTICE
To All Counsel and All Pro Se Defendants:
Be advised that the trial in this matter will commence with jury selection on
Monday, March 2, 2020, at 9:00 a.m., at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States
Courthouse, 500 Pearl Street, New York, New York. The parties are to inquire with the Clerk=s
Office to learn the courtroom number.
The trial schedule will be Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
with fifteen-minute breaks in the morning and afternoon and a one-hour lunch break. Each side
is limited to a total of forty-five hours to argue and to examine and cross-examine witnesses.
The parties= proposed joint final pretrial order, as well as any proposed voir dire
questions, are due by February 21, 2020. A joint (stipulated) set of jury instructions is due by
the first day of trial.

If any specific instructions are disputed, each side is to present its

requested version along with supporting authority.
The Court intends to seat eight jurors using the striking method.

Under the

striking method, the Court will place fourteen prospective jurors in the jury box and replace any
who are excused for cause. Following voir dire, the Court will provide each side with a form on

which simultaneously to write the names of the prospective jurors each side wishes to excuse
peremptorily, and those prospective jurors will be excused. Plaintiffs collectively may exercise
three peremptory challenges.

Defendants collectively may exercise three peremptory

challenges. If fewer than six prospective jurors are excused (due to overlap or to not all
challenges being exercised), then the jury will consist of the first eight prospective jurors who
have not been excused.
All trial exhibits must be marked (e.g., P-1, P-2, etc.; D-1, D-2, etc.) in advance of
trial and each side must exchange its exhibit books, as well as any demonstrative exhibits, with
each other no later than one week before trial. Additionally, each side must provide the Court
with two copies of its exhibit book (one for the Court, one for the Court=s clerks).
SO ORDERED.

s/Bernard A. Friedman
BERNARD A. FRIEDMAN
SENIOR UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
SITTING BY SPECIAL DESIGNATION
Dated: December 20, 2019December 20, 2019
Detroit, Michigan

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