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Nature of Suit Code: 290
Nature of Suit: Other Real Property Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Petition to Quiet Title

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

GREGORY HOWARD TRUST

dated 5/31/94, by and through its

Trustee, GREGORY D. HOWARD,

Plaintiff,

v.

TEXTRON FINANCIAL

CORPORATION, a Delaware

corporation, et al.,

Defendants.

 

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Case No. 12-CV-423-LAB (JMA)

ORDER GRANTING IN PART

JOINT MOTION TO MODIFY

SCHEDULING ORDER 

[Doc. No. 75];

AMENDED SCHEDULING

ORDER

On September 3, 2014, the parties filed a Joint Motion to Modify

Scheduling Order [Doc. No. 75] in which they requested that the discovery

cutoff be continued until at least November 30, 2014, and that the

remainder of the dates in the case be continued for ninety (90) days. The

Court convened a Case Management Conference on September 10, 2014

at 9:00 a.m. to discuss the joint motion. As the Court advised counsel

during the conference, the Pretrial Conference and dates related thereto

cannot be continued. However, the Court is able to grant the parties a

continuance of the discovery and motion filing cutoffs. Additionally, the

Court has advanced the Mandatory Settlement Conference at the parties’

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request. 

Based on the foregoing, the Court GRANTS IN PART the joint

motion to modify scheduling order. The Court hereby issues the following

amended schedule:

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

motions in limine, shall be filed on or before October 20, 2014. 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 six

weeks. 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 such leave of court.

2. All discovery, including expert discovery, shall be completed by

all parties on or before December 1, 2014. "Completed" means that all

discovery must be initiated a sufficient period of time in advance of the

cutoff date, so that it may be completed by the cutoff date, taking into

account the times for service, notice, and response as set forth in the

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The Court's procedures for resolving

discovery disputes are set forth in Judge Adler's Chambers Rules, which

are posted on the Court's website.

3. A Mandatory Settlement Conference shall be conducted on

December 16, 2014 at 9:00 a.m. in the chambers of Magistrate Judge

Adler. Counsel shall submit settlement statements to Magistrate Judge

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Adler's chambers no later than December 9, 2014.

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 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 only. As

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Statements under 20 pages in length, including attachments and exhibits, may be e-mailed to efile_adler@casd.uscourts.gov, faxed to (619) 702-9939, or delivered to chambers via the Office of the Clerk of Court at 333 West Broadway,

Suite 420, San Diego, California. Statements exceeding 20 pages in length,

including attachments and exhibits, must be delivered to chambers via the Office

of the Clerk of Court.

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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.

4. The parties must comply with the pretrial disclosure

requirements of Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(a)(3) on or before January 12, 2015. 

Please be advised that 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.

5. Despite the requirements of Local Rule 16.1.f.2, neither party is

required to file a Memorandum of Contentions of Fact and Law at any time. 

The parties shall instead focus their efforts on drafting and submitting a

proposed pretrial order by the time and date specified by Local Rule

16.1.f.6.b. The proposed pretrial order shall comply with Local Rule

16.1.f.6 and the Standing Order in Civil Cases issued by the Honorable

Larry Alan Burns.

6. Counsel shall confer and take the action required by Local Rule

16.1.f.4.a on or before January 16, 2015. 

7. Counsel for the plaintiff must provide opposing counsel with the

proposed pretrial order for review and approval and take any other action

required by Local Rule 16.1.f.6.a on or before January 26, 2015.

8. Written objections, if any, to any party's Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(a)(3)

pretrial disclosures shall be filed and served on or before January 26,

2015. Please be advised that the failure to file written objections to a

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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 or waste of time) of the

Federal Rules of Evidence.

9. The Pretrial Order shall be lodged with the district judge's

chambers on or before February 2, 2015 and shall be in the form

prescribed in Local Rule 16.1.f.6. 

10. The final Pretrial Conference is scheduled in the chambers of

the Honorable Larry Alan Burns on February 9, 2015 at 11:30 a.m. The

trial date will be assigned by Judge Burns at the pretrial conference.

11. The dates and times set forth herein will not be modified except

for good cause shown.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: September 10, 2014

Jan M. Adler

U.S. Magistrate Judge

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