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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Civil Rights Act

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

VINCENT REYNOV,

 v.

ADP CLAIMS SERVICES GROUP,

 /

No. C 06-02056 CW

AMENDED

MINUTE ORDER AND

CASE MANAGEMENT

ORDER

Clerk: Edward Butler Reporter: Starr Wilson, pro tem

Plaintiff Attorney: Jonathan Gertler; David Markham; Arthur Lazear

Defendant Attorney: Rebecca Eisen

A case management conference was held on: 9/15/06. The Case

Management Statement and Proposed Order filed by the parties is hereby

adopted by the Court as the Case Management Order for the case, except

as may be noted below. The Court's standard Order for Pretrial

Preparation also applies.

The case is hereby referred to the following ADR process:

Non-binding Arbitration: © a Early Neutral Evaluation: © a

Court-connected mediation: © X a Private mediation: © a

Magistrate Judge settlement conference: © a

ADR session to be held by: ©02/15/07a

(or as soon thereafter as is convenient to the mediator's schedule)

Deadline to add additional parties or claims: ©10/16/06a

Date of next case management conference: ©not seta

Completion of Fact Discovery re pre-class certification: ©01/30/07a

Disclosure of identities and reports of expert witnesses: ©not seta

Completion of Expert Discovery: ©not seta

Early case-dispositive motions to be heard at 10:00 AM 

on or before: ©03/30/07a

Final Pretrial Conference at 1:30 P.M. on: ©not seta

A day Trial will begin at 8:30 A.M. on: ©not seta

Additional Matters: Plaintiff’s counsel to file Notice of Appearance

in this case with signature of plaintiff and all counsel, indicating

wish to go forward with this case. Parties to file ADR certification.

Defendant to provide declaration re ADP, Inc., is not a proper party

by 9/22/06; Plaintiff is to dismiss the party by 9/29/06.

Consent/declination forms given to counsel in court to discuss with

clients and return form by 9/29/06. Plaintiff to file motion for

class certification and notice for hearing on 6/1/07 at 10:00 a.m.

Defendant to file motion to dismiss by 10/16/06.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: 9/28/06 

CLAUDIA WILKEN

United States District Judge

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Copies to: Chambers; ADR

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NOTICE

Criminal Law and Motion calendar is conducted on Mondays at 2:00

p.m. (in custody) and 2:30 p.m. (not in custody). Civil Law and

Motion calendar is conducted on Fridays at 10:00 a.m. Case Management

Conferences and Pretrial Conferences are conducted on Fridays at 1:30

p.m. Order of call is determined by the Court. Counsel need not

reserve a hearing date for civil motions; however, counsel are advised

to check the legal newspapers or the Court’s website at

www.cand.uscourts.gov for unavailable dates.

Motions for Summary Judgment: All issues shall be contained

within one motion and shall conform with Civil L.R. 7-2. Separate

statements of undisputed facts in support of or in opposition to

motions for summary judgment will not be considered by the Court.

(See Civil Local Rule 56-2(a)). All briefing on motions for summary

judgment must be included in the memoranda of points and authorities

in support of, opposition to, or reply to the motion, and must comply

with the page limits of Civil Local Rule 7-4. The memoranda should

include a statement of facts supported by citations to the

declarations filed with respect to the motion. Cross or countermotions shall be contained within the opposition to any motion for

summary judgment and shall conform with Civil L.R. 7-3. The Court

may, sua sponte or pursuant to a motion under Civil L.R. 6-3,

reschedule the hearing so as to give a moving party time to file a

surreply to the cross or counter-motion.

All DISCOVERY MOTIONS are referred to a Magistrate Judge to be

heard and considered at the convenience of his/her calendar. All such

matters shall be noticed by the moving party for hearing on the

assigned Magistrate Judge's regular law and motion calendar, or

pursuant to that Judge's procedures. .

(rev. 5/11/05)

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ORDER FOR PRETRIAL PREPARATION

PRETRIAL CONFERENCE

1. Not less than 30 days prior to the pretrial conference,

counsel shall exchange (but not file or lodge) the papers described

in Civil L.R. 16-10(b)(7),(8),(9), and (10), and their motions in

limine. 

2. At least 20 days before the final pretrial conference, lead

counsel who will try the case shall meet and confer with respect to:

(a) Preparation and content of the joint pretrial

conference statement;

(b) Resolution of any differences between the parties

regarding the preparation and content of the joint pretrial

conference statement and the preparation and exchange of

pretrial materials to be served and lodged pursuant to this

Order for Pretrial Preparation. To the extent such differences

are not resolved, parties will present the issues in the

pretrial conference statement so that the judge may rule on the

matter during the pretrial conference; and

(c) Settlement of the action.

3. Not less than 10 days prior to the pretrial conference,

counsel shall submit the following.

(a) Pretrial Conference Statement. The parties shall file

a joint pretrial conference statement containing the following

information:

(1) The Action.

(A) Substance of the Action. A brief description of the

substance of claims and defenses which remain to be decided.

(B) Relief Prayed. A detailed statement of all the relief

claimed, particularly itemizing all elements of damages claimed.

(2) The Factual Basis of the Action.

(A) Undisputed Facts. A plain and concise statement of

all relevant facts not reasonably disputed.

(B) Disputed Factual Issues. A plain and concise

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statement of all disputed factual issues which remain to be

decided.

(C) Agreed Statement. A statement assessing whether all

or part of the action may be presented upon an agreed statement

of facts.

(D) Stipulations. A statement of stipulations requested

or proposed for pretrial or trial purposes.

(3) Disputed Legal Issues. Without extended legal argument,

a concise statement of each disputed point of law concerning

liability or relief.

(4) Further Discovery or Motions. A statement of all remaining

discovery or motions.

(5) Trial Alternatives and Options.

(A) Settlement Discussion. A statement summarizing the

status of settlement negotiations and indicating whether further

negotiations are likely to be productive.

(B) Consent to Trial Before a Magistrate Judge. A

statement whether the parties consent to a court or jury trial

before a magistrate judge, with appeal directly to the Ninth

Circuit.

(C) Bifurcation, Separate Trial of Issues. A statement of

whether bifurcation or a separate trial of specific issues is

feasible and desired.

(6) Miscellaneous. Any other subjects relevant to the trial of

the action, or material to its just, speedy and inexpensive

determination.

(b) Exhibit List and Objections. The exhibit list shall

list each proposed exhibit by its number, description, and sponsoring

witness, followed by blanks to accommodate the date on which it is

marked for identification and the date on which it is admitted into

evidence. No party shall be permitted to offer any exhibit in its

case-in-chief that is not disclosed in its exhibit list without leave

of the Court for good cause shown. Parties shall also deliver a set

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of premarked exhibits to the Courtroom Deputy. The exhibit markers

shall each contain the name and number of the case, the number of the

exhibit, and blanks to accommodate the date admitted and the Deputy

Clerk's initials. (Appropriate sample forms are available on the

Court’s website at www.cand.uscourts.gov). Any objections to exhibits

which remain after the pretrial meeting shall be indicated in the

pretrial statement.

(c) Witness List. In addition to the requirements of

FRCivP 26(a)(3)(A), a brief statement describing the substance of the

testimony to be given by each witness who may be called at trial. No

party shall be permitted to call any witness in its case-in-chief that

is not disclosed in its pretrial statement without leave of Court for

good cause shown.

(d) Use of Discovery Responses. In addition to the

requirements of FRCivP 26(a)(3)(B), a designation of any excerpts from

interrogatory answers or from responses for admissions intended to be

offered at trial. Counsel shall indicate any objections to use of

these materials and that counsel have conferred respecting such

objections. 

(e) Trial briefs. Briefs on all significant disputed

issues of law, including foreseeable procedural and evidentiary

issues, which remain after the pretrial meeting.

(f) Motions in Limine. Any motions in limine that could

not be settled at the pretrial meeting shall be filed with the

pretrial statement. All motions in limine shall be contained within

one document, limited to 25 pages pursuant to Civil L.R. 7-2(b), with

each motion listed as a subheading. Opposition to the motions in

limine shall be contained within one document, limited to 25 pages,

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with corresponding subheadings, and filed five (5) days thereafter.

(g) Joint Proposed Voir Dire. The attached voir dire

questionnaire will be given to the venire members, and copies of the

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

dire. Counsel may submit a set of additional requested voir dire, to

be posed by the Court, to which they have agreed at the pretrial

meeting. Any voir dire questions on which counsel cannot agree shall

be submitted separately. Counsel may be allowed brief follow-up voir

dire after the Court's questioning.

(h) Joint Proposed Jury Instructions. Jury instructions

§1.1 through §1.12, §1.13 through §2.2, and §3.1 through §4.3 from the

Manual of Model Civil Jury Instructions for the Ninth Circuit (2001

Edition) will be given absent objection. Counsel shall jointly submit

one set of additional proposed jury instructions, to which they have

agreed at the pretrial meeting. The instructions shall be ordered in

a logical sequence, together with a table of contents. Any

instruction on which counsel cannot agree shall be marked as

"disputed," and shall be included within the jointly submitted

instructions and accompanying table of contents, in the place where

the party proposing the instruction believes it should be given.

Argument and authority for and against each disputed instruction shall

be included as part of the joint submission, on separate sheets

directly following the disputed instruction. 

Whenever possible, counsel shall deliver to the Courtroom Deputy

a copy of their joint proposed jury instructions on a computer disk

in WordPerfect or ASCII format. The disk label should include the

name of the parties, the case number and a description of the

document.

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(I) Proposed Verdict Forms, Joint or Separate.

(j) Proposed Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law (Court

Trial only). Whenever possible, counsel shall deliver to the

Courtroom Deputy a copy of their proposed findings of fact and

conclusions of law on a computer disk in WordPerfect or ASCII format.

The disk label should include the name of the parties, the case number

and a description of the document.

JURY SELECTION

The Jury Commissioner will summon 20 to 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 asked of sufficient venire persons so that

eight (or more for a lengthy trial) 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 from the individual jurors, outside the presence of the venire.

The Court will inform the attorneys which hardship claims and cause

challenges will be granted, but will not announce those dismissals

until the process is completed. Each side may then list in writing

up to three peremptory challenges. The attorneys will review each

other's lists and then submit them to the Courtroom Deputy.

Then, from the list of jurors in numerical order, the Court will

strike the persons with meritorious hardships, those excused for

cause, and those challenged peremptorily, and call the first eight

people in numerical sequence remaining. Those people will be the

jury.

All jurors remaining at the close of the case will deliberate.

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There are no alternates.

SANCTIONS 

Failure to comply with this Order is cause for sanctions under

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 16(f).

IT IS SO ORDERED.

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Dated: ______________________ s/CLAUDIA WILKEN

CLAUDIA WILKEN

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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JUROR QUESTIONNAIRE

Please fill out this form as completely as possible and print clearly.

Since we want to make copies for the attorneys and the Court, 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. The city where you live: __________________________________

 

4. Your place of birth: ______________________________________

5. Do you rent or own your own home? _________________________

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. How long have you worked for this employer? ______________ 

10. Please list the occupations of any adults with whom you

 live.

_______________________________________________________________

11. If you have children, please list their ages and sex and, 

 if they are employed, please give their occupations.

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

12. Please describe your educational background:

Highest grade completed: _________________________________

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College and/or vocational schools you have attended:

_______________________________________________________________

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Major areas of study:_____________________________________

13. Have you ever served on a jury before? ________ How many 

 times?________

If yes: State/County Court _______ Federal Court _______

When? ____________________________________________________

Was it a civil or criminal case? _________________________

Did the jury(ies) reach a verdict? ___________________

(rev. 9/4/02)

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