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Nature of Suit Code: 340
Nature of Suit: Marine Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 46:688 Jones Act

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

KENNETH WAYNE PELL,

Plaintiff,

v.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Defendant.

Case No. 16-cv-01291-JST 

SCHEDULING ORDER

The Court hereby sets the following case deadlines pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil 

Procedure 16 and Civil Local Rule 16-10:

Event Deadline

Deadline to add parties or amend the pleadings August 1, 2016

Fact discovery cut-off March 31, 2017

Expert disclosures April 21, 2017

Expert rebuttal May 12, 2017

Expert discovery cut-off May 26, 2017

Deadline to file dispositive motions June 16, 2017

Pretrial conference statement due August 29, 2017

Pretrial conference September 8, 2017 at 

2:00 p.m.

Trial October 2, 2017 at 

8:30 a.m.

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Event Deadline

Estimate of trial length (in days) Five

This case will be tried to the court. 

Counsel may not modify these dates without leave of court. The parties shall comply with 

the Court’s standing orders, which are available at cand.uscourts.gov/jstorders.

The parties must take all necessary steps to conduct discovery, compel discovery, hire 

counsel, retain experts, and manage their calendars so that they can complete discovery in a timely 

manner and appear at trial on the noticed and scheduled dates. All counsel must arrange their 

calendars to accommodate these dates, or arrange to substitute or associate in counsel who can. 

Trial dates set by this Court should be regarded as firm. Requests for continuance are 

disfavored. The Court will not consider any event subsequently scheduled by a party, partycontrolled witness, expert or attorney that conflicts with the above trial date as good cause to grant 

a continuance. The Court will not consider the pendency of settlement discussions as good cause 

to grant a continuance. 

The parties were previously ordered to file either a Stipulation to ADR Process or a Notice 

of Need for ADR Phone Conference by May 24, 2016. ECF No. 3 at 2. They failed to comply 

with this order. They state in their most recent Case Management Statement that 

The parties independently submitted ADR Certifications indicating 

that the parties prefer to engage in private mediation once sufficient 

discovery has been completed to enable a useful mediation. The 

parties' counsel are familiar with each other and will work 

cooperatively to schedule mediation when most efficacious.

ECF No. 19 at 4. This representation is consistent with the Court’s personal experience with the 

maritime bar, in which repeat player counsel are typically able to litigate with greater 

professionalism and less formality than other segments of the civil bar. 

Nonetheless, a court order is a court order, and counsel may not unilaterally excuse 

themselves from complying with it. The parties are ordered to either to file either a Stipulation to 

ADR Process or a Notice of Need for ADR Phone Conference by July 8, 2016, or show cause in 

writing why sanctions should not be imposed for violation of a court order. A hearing on the order 

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to show cause will be conducted on July 14, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. If the parties timely comply with 

their ADR filing obligations, the July 14, 2016 show cause hearing will be vacated. 

The Case Management Conference scheduled for July 6, 2016 is vacated. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: July 1, 2016

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JON S. TIGAR

United States District Judge

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