Elmore v. Washington State Department of Corrections et al

Filing 49

REVISED PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER: Discovery to be completed by 1/21/2016, Dispositive motions shall be filed and served on or before 2/21/2016, and the Joint Status Report is due by 4/15/2016. Signed by Magistrate Judge J Richard Creatura. (CMG)

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1 2 3 4 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 6 7 8 ROBERTA ELMORE, Plaintiff, 9 10 CASE NO. 3:13-CV-05946-RJB-JRC REVISED PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER v. 11 WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, et al., 12 Defendants. 13 14 This is a civil rights action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The Court previously 15 amended the pretrial scheduling order (See Dkts. 15, 18, 21, 45). The Court has allowed plaintiff 16 to file an amended complaint and allows defendants to conduct further discovery (Dkts. 45, 47). 17 Defendants filed an answer to plaintiff’s amended complaint (Dkt. 47). The Court needs to revise 18 the scheduling order. The Court now Orders: 19 20 Discovery All discovery shall be completed by January 21, 2016. Service of responses to 21 interrogatories and to requests to produce, and the taking of depositions, shall be completed by 22 this date. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 33(a) requires answers or objections to be served 23 within thirty (30) days after service of the interrogatories. The serving party, therefore, must REVISED PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER - 1 1 serve his/her interrogatories at least thirty (30) days before the deadline in order to allow the 2 other party time to answer. 3 4 Dispositive Motions Any dispositive motion shall be filed and served on or before February 21, 2016. The 5 motion shall include in its caption (immediately below the title of the motion) a designation of 6 the Friday upon which the motion is to be noted upon the court's calendar. That date shall be the 7 fourth Friday following filing of the dispositive motion. All briefs and affidavits in opposition to 8 any motion shall be filed and served not later than 4:30 p.m. on the Monday immediately 9 preceding the Friday appointed for consideration of the motion. The party making the motion 10 may file, not later than 4:30 p.m. on the Thursday immediately preceding the Friday designated 11 for consideration of the motion, a response to the opposing party's briefs and affidavits. The 12 documents must indicate in the upper right-hand corner the name of the magistrate judge to 13 whom the documents are to be delivered. 14 15 Joint Status Report Counsel is directed to confer and provide the Court with a joint status report by no later 16 than April 15, 2016. The joint status report shall contain the following information by 17 corresponding paragraph numbers: 18 1. A short and concise statement of the case, including the remaining legal and 19 factual issues to be determined at trial; 20 2. A narrative written statement from each party setting forth the facts that will be 21 offered by oral or written documentary evidence at trial; 22 3. A list of all exhibits to be offered into evidence at trial; 23 REVISED PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER - 2 1 4. A list of the names and addresses of all the witnesses each party intends to call 2 along with a short summary of anticipated testimony of each witness. 3 5. Whether the parties agree to arbitration or mediation under this district's 4 arbitration program, and if so whether the arbitration will be final and conclusive or the right to 5 trial de novo will be preserved (see Local Rule CR 39.1(d)); 6 6. Whether the case should be bifurcated by trying the liability issues before the 7 damages issues, or specially managed in any other way; 8 7. Any other suggestions for shortening or simplifying the trial in this case; 9 8. The date the case will be ready for trial, considering Local Rule CR 16 deadlines; 10 9. The dates on which trial counsel are unavailable and any other complications to 11 be considered in setting a trial date; 12 10. Whether the trial will by jury or non-jury; 13 11. The number of trial days required, and suggestions for shortening trial; 14 12. The names, addresses, and telephone numbers of all trial counsel who intend to 15 appear at trial. 16 If the parties are unable to agree on any part of the report, they may answer in separate 17 paragraphs. Separate reports are not to be filed. Plaintiff’s counsel will be responsible for 18 initiating communications for the preparation of the joint status report. 19 20 Proof of Service & Sanctions All motions, pretrial statements and other filings shall be accompanied by proof that such 21 documents have been served upon counsel for the opposing party (or upon any party acting pro 22 se). The proof shall show the day and manner of service and may be by written acknowledgment 23 of service, by certificate of a member of the bar of this court, by affidavit of the person who REVISED PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER - 3 1 served the papers, or by any other proof satisfactory to the court. Such proof of service shall 2 accompany both the original and duplicates filed with the Clerk. Failure to comply with the 3 provisions of this Order can result in dismissal/default judgment or other appropriate sanctions. 4 The Clerk of Court is directed to send a copy of this Order to counsel for plaintiff and 5 defendants. 6 Dated this 21st day of July, 2015. A 7 8 J. Richard Creatura United States Magistrate Judge 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 REVISED PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER - 4

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