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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Civil Rights Act

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MICHAEL BUTLER, et al.

Plaintiff(s), No. C 04-00135 PJH 

v. REVISED CASE MANAGEMENT

AND PRETRIAL ORDER

 ADOPTION MEDIA, LLC, et al.,

Defendant(s).

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Good cause appearing, the court hereby adopts the case management statement of the

parties except as modified by the following: 

PRETRIAL SCHEDULE

TRIAL DATE: Monday, August 20, 2007, at 8:30 a.m., Courtroom 3, 17th Fl.

JURY [x] COURT []

TRIAL LENGTH: No more than 8 days.

PRETRIAL CONFERENCE DATE: July 12, 2007, at 2:30 p.m.

A. FINAL PRETRIAL CONFERENCE

1. Each party shall attend personally or by counsel who will try the case.

2. Not less than forty (40) calendar days prior to the pretrial conference, all

counsel and/or parties shall meet and confer regarding preparation of the joint pretrial

statement.

3. Not less than thirty (30) calendar days prior to the pretrial conference, counsel

and/or parties shall:

a. Serve and file a joint pretrial statement. (Separately filed statements

will not be accepted by the court and monetary sanctions will be

imposed upon the party failing to cooperate in the preparation of a joint

statement).

The pretrial statement shall include the disclosures required by Fed. R.

Civ. P. 26(a)(3) as well as the following:

(I) A brief description of the substance of the claims and defenses 

which remain to be decided.

(ii) A detailed statement of all relief sought, itemizing all elements of

damages claimed.

(iii) A statement of all relevant undisputed facts to which the parties

will stipulate for incorporation into the trial record without the

necessity of supporting testimony or exhibits.

(iv) A statement of all relevant disputed facts which remain to be

decided.

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(v) A statement of stipulations requested or proposed.

(vi) A brief statement of disputed points of law concerning liability

and relief. Legal argument on these points shall be reserved for

the trial briefs.

(vii) A statement of whether bifurcation or a separate trial of specific

issues is feasible and desired.

(viii) A statement summarizing the status of settlement negotiations

and indicating whether further negotiations are likely to be

productive.

b. Serve and file trial briefs (not to exceed 25 pages), which shall specify

each cause of action and defense remaining to be tried along with a

statement of the applicable legal standard (no opposition shall be

filed);

c Serve and file motions in limine, which shall be contained in one

document and shall not exceed 25 pages:

d. Serve and file a list of deposition excerpts for witnesses who will not

testify in person, (specifying the witness, page and line references) and

other discovery responses that will be offered at trial;

e. Serve and file a list of all witnesses to be called at trial, in person or by

deposition, other than solely for impeachment or rebuttal, with a brief

statement describing the substance of the testimony to be given;

f. Serve and file a numerical list of exhibits that will be offered as evidence

in a party's case in chief in support of a claim or defense, with a brief

statement describing the substance and purpose of each exhibit and

the name of the sponsoring witness;

g. Exchange exhibits which shall be premarked with an exhibit sticker

(example attached), tabbed and in binders. Plaintiff shall use numbers

(1, 2, 3, etc.) and defendant shall use numbers preceded by a letter (A1, A-2, A-3, etc.). Additional parties shall also use a letter preceding

numbers (B-1, B-2, B-3, or C-1, C-2, C-3, etc.).

h. Submit two sets for jury trials and three sets for court trials of all

premarked exhibits to the Clerk's Office (exhibits are not filed);

i. Serve and file any request regarding the treatment of confidential or

sealed documents.

j. Serve and file proposed joint voir dire questions and joint jury

instructions for cases to be tried by jury;

k. Serve and file proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law for

cases to be tried by the court.

l. Serve and file a proposed verdict form which contains no reference to

submitting party.

4. No party shall be permitted to call any witness or offer any exhibit in its case in

chief that is not disclosed in these pretrial filings without leave of court and for good cause.

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5. Not less than fifteen (15) calendar days prior to the pretrial conference, counsel

and/or parties shall serve and file any opposition to a motion in limine. No replies shall be

filed. All motions shall be heard at the pretrial conference unless otherwise ordered. The

parties shall not file separate objections, apart from those contained in the motions in limine, to the opposing party's witness list, exhibit list or discovery designations.

B. JURY TRIAL

Jury Selection shall proceed as follows: The Jury Commissioner will summon 20 t0

25 prospective jurors. The Courtroom Deputy will select their names at random and seat

them in the courtroom in the order in which their names are called. Voir dire will be

conducted of sufficient venire members so that six to eight will remain after all peremptory

challenges and an anticipated number of hardship dismissals and cause challenges have

been made.

The court will then take cause challenges and discuss hardship claims at side bar. 

The court will inform counsel which hardship claims and cause challenges will be granted,

but will not announce those dismissals until the selection process is completed. Peremptory

challenges will be made in writing and passed between counsel. The court will strike at one

time those with meritorious hardship claims, those excused for cause, and those challenged

peremptorily, and then seat the first six to eight people remaining in numerical order.

The attached voir dire questionnaire shall be given to the venire members and

copies of the responses will be made available to counsel at the beginning of voir dire. 

Counsel shall submit a joint set of additional voir dire questions to be posed by the court. 

Any voir dire questions on which counsel cannot agree may be submitted separately. 

Counsel will be permitted brief follow-up voir dire after the court's questioning.

The following jury instructions from the Ninth Circuit Manual of Model Jury

Instructions Civil (2001 Edition) shall be given absent objection: 1.1 - 1.14, 2.1 - 2.2, 3.1 -

3.3. 3.5 - 3.7, 

4.1 - 4.4. Counsel shall submit a joint set of case specific instructions using the Ninth

Circuit Manual where appropriate. Do not submit duplicates of those instructions listed

above. Any instructions on which counsel cannot agree may be submitted separately. Each

instruction shall be typed in full on a separate page with citations to the authority upon which

it is based and a reference to the party submitting it. A second blind copy of each

instruction shall also be submitted omitting the citation to authority and the reference to the

submitting party, but retaining the title of the instruction.

C. TRIAL SCHEDULE

The court's trial schedule is 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. with two fifteen-minute breaks, on

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

D. PROCEDURE FOR AMENDING THIS ORDER

No provision of this order may be changed except by written order of this court upon

its own motion or upon motion of one or more parties made pursuant to Civil. L. R. 7-11 with

a showing of good cause. Parties may file a formal brief, but a letter brief will suffice. The

requesting party shall serve the opposing party on the same day the motion is filed and the

opposing party shall submit a response as soon as possible but no later than three days

after service.

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If the modification sought is an extension of a deadline contained herein, the motion

must be brought before expiration of that deadline. The parties may not modify the

pretrial schedule by stipulation. A conflict with a court date set after the date of this order

does not constitute good cause. The parties are advised that if they stipulate to a change in

the discovery schedule, they do so at their own risk. The only discovery schedule that the

court will enforce is the one set in this order. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: 4/30/07 ______________________________

PHYLLIS J. HAMILTON

United States District Judge

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CONFIDENTIAL

JUROR QUESTIONNAIRE

Please fill out this form as completely as possible and print clearly. This will assist the judge

and the lawyers in selecting a jury and will save time for them and for you. Because copies

will be made for the attorneys and the judge, do not write on the back of any page. If you

need more room, continue at the bottom of the page. Thank you for your cooperation.

1. Your name: 

2. Your age: 

3. City in which you reside: 

4. If you have lived there for fewer than five years, where did you live before:

__________________________________________________________

5. Your place of birth: 

6. Your marital status: (circle one)

single married separated divorced widowed

7. What is your occupation and how long have you worked in it? (If you are retired, 

please describe your main occupation when you were working).

8. Who is (or was) your employer? _________________________________

9. If you have held this job for fewer than five years, describe your previous job:

____________________________________________________________

10. If you are married, please list your spouse's occupation.

11. If you have children, please list their ages and genders and, if they are employed,

please give their occupations.

12. Please describe your education background:

Highest grade completed: 

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College and/or vocational schools you have attended:

Major areas of study: 

13. Have you served in the military? _________________________________

14. Have you ever had jury experience? No. of times? 

If yes: State/County Court Federal Court 

When? 

Was it a civil or criminal case? 

Did any of the juries reach a verdict? 

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