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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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04cv2303

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

LEROY WILLIS, JR., 

CDC #H-36974,

Plaintiff,

v.

STEVE RITTER, et al.,

Defendants.

 

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Case No. 04-CV-2303-WQH (JMA)

ORDER FOLLOWING TELEPHONIC

CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE;

AMENDED CASE MANAGEMENT

CONFERENCE ORDER REGULATING

DISCOVERY AND OTHER PRETRIAL

PROCEEDINGS

The Court convened a telephonic Case Management Conference

on September 12, 2007 at 4:00 p.m.

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED:

1. The Clerk of Court shall update the docket to reflect

Plaintiff’s current address and telephone number: 

110 West C Street, Suite 1709

San Diego, CA 92101

(619) 490-8096

2. Defendants’ forthcoming motion to compel production of

medical records will be heard on October 17, 2007 at 9:00 a.m.

No appearances are required on the hearing date. Defendants’

moving papers shall be filed and served no later than September

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Counsel should note that while historically motion cutoff

deadlines issued by this Court were deadlines for motion hearings, the

motion cutoff dates now being issued establish deadlines for the

parties to file motions.

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19, 2007. Plaintiff’s opposition shall be filed and served no

later than October 3, 2007. Defendants’ reply shall be filed and

served no later than October 10, 2007.

3. The discovery cutoff of September 14, 2007 remains in

place as previously set forth, except with respect to any

discovery that may be ordered to be produced pursuant to

Defendants’ forthcoming motion to compel.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the remaining dates in this

matter are rescheduled as set forth below:

1. All motions, other than motions to amend or join

parties, or motions in limine, shall be filed on or before

November 30, 2007.1 Motions will not be heard or calendared

unless counsel for the moving party has obtained a motion hearing

date from the law clerk of the judge who will hear the motion. 

Be advised that the period of time between the date you request a

motion date and the hearing date may be up to sixty (60) days. 

Please plan accordingly. Failure of counsel to timely request a

motion date may result in the motion not being heard. 

Briefs or memoranda in support of or in opposition to any

pending motion shall not exceed twenty-five (25) pages in length

without leave of the judge who will hear the motion. No reply

memorandum shall exceed ten (10) pages without leave of the judge

who will hear the motion.

2. A Mandatory Settlement Conference shall be conducted on

January 30, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. in the chambers of Magistrate

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Judge Adler. Counsel shall submit settlement statements directly

to Magistrate Judge Adler's chambers no later than January 23,

2008. The parties may either submit confidential settlement

statements or may exchange their settlement statements. Each

party's settlement statement shall set forth the party's

statement of the case, identify controlling legal issues,

concisely set out issues of liability and damages, and shall set

forth the party's settlement position, including the last offer

or demand made by that party, and a separate statement of the

offer or demand the party is prepared to make at the settlement

conference. The settlement conference briefs shall not be filed

with the Clerk of the Court. 

All named parties, all counsel, and any other person(s)

whose authority is required to negotiate and enter into

settlement shall appear in person at the conference. The

individual(s) present at the Mandatory Settlement Conference with

settlement authority must have the unfettered discretion and

authority on behalf of the party to: 1) fully explore all

settlement options and to agree during the Mandatory Settlement

Conference to any settlement terms acceptable to the party (G.

Heileman Brewing Co., Inc. v. Joseph Oat Corp., 871 F.2d 648, 653

(7th Cir. 1989)), 2) change the settlement position of a party

during the course of the Mandatory Settlement Conference (Pitman

v. Brinker Int'l, Inc., 216 F.R.D. 481, 485-86 (D. Ariz. 2003)),

and 3) negotiate a settlement without being restricted by any

predetermined level of authority (Nick v. Morgan's Foods, Inc.,

270 F.3d 590, 596 (8th Cir. 2001)).

Governmental entities may appear through litigation counsel

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only. As to all other parties, appearance by litigation counsel

only is not acceptable. Retained outside corporate counsel shall

not appear on behalf of a corporation as the party who has the

authority to negotiate and enter into a settlement. The failure

of any counsel, party or authorized person to appear at the

Mandatory Settlement Conference as required will result in the

immediate imposition of sanctions. All conference discussions

will be informal, off the record, privileged, and confidential.

3. The parties must comply with the pretrial disclosure

requirements of Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(a)(3) no later than February

4, 2008. 

4. No Memoranda of Contentions of Fact and Law are to be

filed except in a bench trial. In that case, counsel shall serve

on each other and file with the Clerk of the Court their

Memoranda of Contentions of Fact and Law in compliance with Local

Rule 16.1(f)(2) on or before February 4, 2008.

5. Counsel shall confer and take the action required by

Local Rule 16.1(f)(4) on or before February 11, 2008. 

6. The Proposed Final Pretrial Conference Order, including

written objections, if any, to any party's Fed. R. Civ. P.

26(a)(3) pretrial disclosures, shall be prepared, served, and

lodged with the Clerk's Office on or before February 15, 2008 and

shall be in the form prescribed in Local Rule 16.1(f)(6). Any

objections shall comply with the requirements of Fed. R. Civ. P.

26(a)(3). Please be advised that the failure to file written

objections to a party's pretrial disclosures may result in the

waiver of such objections, with the exception of those made

pursuant to Rules 402 (relevance) and 403 (prejudice, confusion

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or waste of time) of the Federal Rules of Evidence.

7. The final pretrial conference is scheduled on the

calendar of the Honorable William Q. Hayes on February 25, 2008

at 11:00 a.m. The trial date will be assigned by Judge Hayes at

the pretrial conference.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: September 17, 2007

Jan M. Adler

U.S. Magistrate Judge

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