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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1983cv Civil Rights Act - Civil Action for Deprivation of Rights

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

KATY WILLIAMS, et al., 

 Plaintiffs, 

v. 

COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO, et al., 

 Defendants. 

 Case No.: 17-cv-00815-MMA (JLB) 

ORDER GRANTING IN PART 

JOINT MOTION TO CONTINUE 

SCHEDULING ORDER AND 

PRETRIAL PROCEEDING DATES 

[ECF No. 159] 

Before the Court is a Joint Motion to Continue Scheduling Order and Pretrial 

Proceeding Dates. (ECF No. 159.) The parties jointly request a 60-day extension of all 

dates in the current Scheduling Order. The Court finds that the parties have only 

demonstrated good cause for a 45-day extension of all dates. Accordingly, the Joint Motion 

is GRANTED IN PART and the Scheduling Order (ECF No. 158) is modified as follows: 

1. All discovery, including expert discovery, must be completed by all parties by 

May 26, 2020.

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 “Completed” means that all discovery under Rules 30-36 of the Federal 

Rules of Civil Procedure, and discovery subpoenas under Rule 45, must be initiated a 

 

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 Additional discovery is limited to the purposes set forth in the parties’ Joint 

Motion. (ECF No. 159 at 3.) 

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sufficient period of time in advance of the cut-off date, so that it may be completed by 

the cut-off date, taking into account the times for service, notice and response as set forth 

in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Counsel must promptly and in good faith meet 

and confer with regard to all discovery disputes in compliance with Local Rule 

26.1(a). The Court expects counsel to make every effort to resolve all disputes without 

court intervention through the meet and confer process. If the parties reach an impasse on 

any discovery issue, counsel must file an appropriate motion within the time limit and 

procedures outlined in the undersigned magistrate judge’s chambers rules. A failure to 

comply in this regard will result in a waiver of a party’s discovery issue. Absent an 

order of the court, no stipulation continuing or altering this requirement will be 

recognized by the court.

Discovery motions must be filed in the time and manner directed by Magistrate 

Judge Burkhardt (see Judge Burkhardt’s Civil Chambers Rules on Discovery Disputes 

available on the Court’s website). All discovery motions must be filed within 30 days of 

the service of an objection, answer, or response which becomes the subject of dispute, or 

the passage of a discovery due date without response or production, and only after counsel 

(and any unrepresented parties) have met and conferred to resolve the dispute and 

complied with Section IV.B. of Judge Burkhardt’s Civil Chambers Rules. 

2. Failure to comply with this section or any other discovery order of the court 

may result in the sanctions provided for in Fed. R. Civ. P. 37, including a prohibition on 

the introduction of experts or other designated matters in evidence. 

3. All dispositive pretrial motions, including motions for summary judgment and 

motions addressing Daubert issues, must be filed by June 22, 2020.

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 Counsel for the 

moving party must obtain a motion hearing date from Judge Anello’s law clerk. The period 

 

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 This deadline is not applicable to pretrial motions in limine. For further 

information regarding motions in limine, please refer to Judge Anello’s Civil Chambers 

Rules. 

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of time between the date you request a motion date and the hearing date may vary from 

one district judge to another. Please plan accordingly. Failure to make a timely request 

for a motion date may result in the motion not being heard. 

4. If appropriate, following the filing of an order ruling on a motion for summary 

judgment or other dispositive pretrial motion, or in the event no such motion is filed, after 

the expiration of the deadline set forth in paragraph 3, supra, Judge Anello will issue a 

pretrial scheduling order setting a pretrial conference, trial date, and all related pretrial 

deadlines. The parties must review and be familiar with Judge Anello’s Civil Chambers 

Rules, which provide additional information regarding pretrial scheduling. 

5. A Mandatory Settlement Conference will be conducted on June 5, 2020 at 

9:00 a.m. in the chambers of Magistrate Judge Jill L. Burkhardt. Counsel or any party 

representing himself or herself must submit confidential settlement briefs directly to the 

magistrate judge’s chambers by May 27, 2020. All parties are ordered to read and fully 

comply with the Chambers Rules of the assigned Magistrate Judge. 

 The confidential settlement statements should be lodged by e-mail to 

efile_Burkhardt@casd.uscourts.gov. Each party’s settlement statement shall concisely set 

forth the following: (1) the party’s statement of the case; (2) the controlling legal issues; 

(3) issues of liability and damages; (4) the party’s settlement position, including the last 

offer or demand made by that party; (5) a separate statement of the offer or demand the 

party is prepared to make at the settlement conference; and (6) a list of all attorney and 

non-attorney conference attendees for that side, including the name(s) and 

title(s)/position(s) of the party/party representative(s) who will attend and have settlement 

authority at the conference. If exhibits are attached and the total submission amounts to 

more than 20 pages, a hard copy must also be delivered directly to Magistrate Judge 

Burkhardt’s chambers. Settlement conference statements shall not be filed with the 

Clerk of the Court. Settlement conference statements may be exchanged 

confidentially with opposing counsel within the parties’ discretion. 

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Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 16.3, all party representatives and claims adjusters for 

insured defendants with full and unlimited authority1

 to negotiate and enter into a binding 

settlement, as well as the principal attorney(s) responsible for the litigation, must be present 

and legally and factually prepared to discuss and resolve the case at the mandatory 

settlement conference. In the case of an entity, an authorized representative of the entity 

who is not retained outside counsel must be present and must have discretionary authority 

to commit the entity to pay an amount up to the amount of the Plaintiff’s prayer (excluding 

punitive damages prayers). The purpose of this requirement is to have representatives 

present who can settle the case during the course of the conference without consulting a 

superior. 

Counsel for a United States government entity may be excused from this 

requirement so long as the government attorney who attends the MSC conference (1) has 

primary responsibility for handling the case, and (2) may negotiate settlement offers which 

the attorney is willing to recommend to the government official having ultimate settlement 

authority. 

 Failure to attend the conference or obtain proper excuse will be considered grounds 

for sanctions. 

6. A post trial settlement conference before a magistrate judge may be held 

within 30 days of verdict in the case. 

7. The dates and times set forth herein will not be modified except for good cause 

shown. 

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 “Full authority to settle” means that the individuals at the settlement conference must 

be authorized to fully explore settlement options and to agree at that time to any settlement terms acceptable to the parties. Heileman Brewing Co., Inc. v. Joseph Oat Corp., 871 F.2d 

648 (7th Cir. 1989). The person needs to have “unfettered discretion and authority” to change the settlement position of a party. Pitman v. Brinker Int’l., Inc., 216 F.R.D. 481, 

485-86 (D. Ariz. 2003). The purpose of requiring a person with unlimited settlement authority to attend the conference includes that the person’s view of the case may be altered during the face to face conference. Id. at 486. A limited or a sum certain of authority is not adequate. Nick v. Morgan’s Foods, Inc., 270 F.3d 590, 595-97 (8th Cir. 2001). 

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8. Briefs or memoranda in support of or in opposition to any pending motion 

must not exceed twenty-five (25) pages in length without leave of a district court judge. 

No reply memorandum will exceed ten (10) pages without leave of a district court judge. 

Briefs and memoranda exceeding ten (10) pages in length must have a table of contents 

and a table of authorities cited. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: March 9, 2020 

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