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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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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

BARRY KING,

Plaintiff,

v.

ROBYNN WESTON and NAEEM 

SIDDIQI,

Defendants.

Case No. 1:20-cv-00943-CDB

PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER

Motions in limine:

 File – January 8, 2024

 Respond – January 19, 2024

 Reply - January 26, 2024

 

Jury instructions, proposed verdict form:

 Party-submitted – February 1, 2024

 Joint & Disputed – February 7, 2024

 Hearing – February 9, 2024

List of discovery documents: January 26, 2024

Counter designations: February 7, 2024

Pretrial Conference: February 9, 2024, 10:30 AM

Jury Trial: February 26, 2024, at 9:00 AM in the 

Bakersfield Courthouse, 510 19th Street (CDB)

Plaintiff Barry King asserts claims pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Defendants Robynn 

Weston and Naeem Siddiqi for deliberate indifference to serious medical needs based on Defendants’ 

alleged failure to treat King’s fractured jaw.

Following the Court’s grant of partial summary judgment (Doc. 82), the parties convened for a 

status conference off the record on May 9, 2023. Morgan Ricketts appeared for Plaintiff and Chad 

Couchot appeared for Defendants. During the status conference, the parties identified a series a 

mutually available dates for further scheduling of this case. Accordingly, based on the dates provided 

and the availability of the Court. The Court ORDERS the pretrial schedule to proceed as follows:

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A. Motions In Limine Hearing and Briefing Schedule

The parties anticipate filing pretrial motions involving disputed evidentiary issues and 

regarding expert testimony. The Court orders the parties’ counsel to meet and confer on anticipated 

motions in limine and to distill evidentiary issues. The Court further directs the parties to file motions 

in limine only as to important, critical matters, keeping in mind that routine evidentiary issues can be 

resolved easily with a conference among the Court and counsel. If the Court assesses that the parties 

have filed motions in limine without meaningful and genuine meeting and conferring, the Court may 

strike the motions in limine and not hear them.

The parties, after meaningful and genuine meet and confer efforts, shall file and serve their

actually-disputed motions in limine no later than January 8, 2024. Any response to motions in limine

shall be filed no later than January 19, 2024. Any reply in support of a motion in limine shall be filed 

no later than January 26, 2024. The Court will conduct a hearing on the motions in limine during the 

pretrial conference on February 9, 2024, at 10:30 a.m. in the Bakersfield Courthouse, 510 19th Street

(CDB), unless this Court decides to rule on the motions in limine on the briefs. The Court will conduct 

the pretrial conference in-person.

Moving and opposition papers must be brief, succinct, and well-organized. The parties shall

consolidate their respective motions in limine in a single document, organized by number, and to file 

oppositions in a single document responding to the numbered issues under the same corresponding 

headers. For example, if a defendant has five evidentiary issues, it would file one motion that has five

headers: Motion in limine No. 1; Motion in limine No. 2, and so on; and, in response, plaintiff would 

file one opposition document organized in the same way.

B. Proposed Jury Instructions and Verdict Forms

The parties shall serve their proposed jury instructions and verdict forms on one another no 

later than February 1, 2024. The parties shall conduct a conference to address their proposed jury 

instructions and verdict forms no later than February 6, 2024. At the conference, the parties shall 

reach agreement on jury instructions and a verdict form for use at trial. The parties, no later than 

February 7, 2024, shall jointly file and serve all agreed-on jury instructions and an agreed-on verdict 

form and identify such as the agreed-on jury instructions and verdict form. The parties also shall file 

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and serve by February 7, 2024, any proposed but disputed jury instructions and/or partial verdict 

form, and identify those as disputed. 

All jury instructions SHALL indicate the party submitting the instruction (i.e., joint/agreed-on, 

Plaintiff’s, or Defendants’), the number of the proposed instruction in sequence, a brief title for the 

instruction describing the subject matter, the text of the instruction, and the legal authority supporting 

the instruction.

All jury instructions and verdict forms SHALL be e-mailed as a Microsoft Word attachment to 

cdborders@caed.uscourts.gov. The Court will not accept a mere list of numbers of form instructions 

from the Ninth Circuit Model Jury Instructions, CACI, BAJI, or other instruction forms. The proposed 

jury instructions must be in the form and sequence which the parties desire to be given to the jury. All 

blanks to form instructions must be completed. Irrelevant or unnecessary portions of form instructions 

must be omitted.

Ninth Circuit Model Jury Instructions shall be used where the subject of the instruction is 

covered by a model instruction. Otherwise CACI or BAJI instructions shall be used where the subject 

of the instruction is covered by CACI or BAJI. All instructions shall be short, concise, understandable, 

and neutral and accurate statements of the law. Argumentative or formula instructions will not be 

given and must not be submitted. Quotations from legal authorities without reference to the issues at 

hand are unacceptable. 

The parties shall, by italics or underlining, designate any modification of instructions from 

statutory or case authority, or any pattern instruction, such as the Ninth Circuit Model Jury 

Instructions, CACI, BAJI, or any other source of pattern instructions, and must specifically state the 

modification made to the original form instruction and the legal authority supporting the modification.

The Court will address arguments concerning jury instructions, verdict form, and any other 

outstanding pretrial issues during the pretrial conference on February 9, 2024, at 10:30 a.m.

C. Deposition Testimony

Deposition testimony shall be designated by page and line number, with such designation to be 

filed and served no later than January 26, 2024. Any counter-designation as to the same deposition 

(also set out by page and line number) shall be filed and served no later than February 7, 2024. The 

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original certified transcript of any deposition identified in a designation or counter-designation, along 

with any videorecording of deposition excerpts either party intends to use at trial, shall be lodged with 

the Courtroom Deputy no later than February 9, 2024.

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D. Pretrial Statements

Consistent with Local Rule 281, the parties are directed to file a joint pretrial statement not less 

than ten (10) days before the pretrial conference (i.e., no later than January 30, 2024).

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: May 11, 2023 ___________________ _

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

1 Dates by which the parties shall serve, file (and, as appropriate, lodge) proposed voir dire, 

stipulations, trial exhibits and lists, and discovery documents will be address by separate order after 

the parties file their pretrial statements.

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