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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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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

John Fratus, 

Plaintiff, 

vs.

Sergeant Peterson, et al., 

Defendants. 

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No. CV-08-1500-ROS

ORDER

IT IS ORDERED pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. (FRCP) 16 a Scheduling Conference

is set for March 3, 2015 at 10:00 a.m., Arizona time, in Courtroom #3, United States

Courthouse, 2500 Tulare Street, Fresno, California. The conference will be conducted via

video teleconference. This Court views the Scheduling Conference as critical to its case

management responsibilities and the responsibilities of counsel/parties pursuant to FRCP 1.

Judge Silver perceives the Rule 16 Conference as an opportunity to ensure the parties

and counsel fully understand the Court’s expectations and to thoroughly familiarize herself

with the facts and law pertaining to the case. At the conference the parties and counsel are

to be completely prepared to discuss and explain both the facts and law as set forth in the

Proposed Case Management Plan as well as those anticipated to surface during litigation.

The conference is not perfunctory and dialogue with the parties and counsel can comprise

a considerable amount of time. 

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED all counsel/parties shall conduct an initial case

management meeting at least seven days before the Scheduling Conference in accordance

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with Rule 26(f) of the FRCP and shall discuss the matters set forth in the Court’s Agenda for

Civil Case Management Meeting.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED it shall be the responsibility of defense counsel to

initiate the communication necessary with Plaintiff to schedule the case management meeting

and to prepare both the Proposed Case Management Plan and Proposed Scheduling Order.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED at the case management meeting the counsel/parties

shall prepare a Proposed Case Management Plan and a Proposed Scheduling Order and shall

file them with the Court no later than February 24, 2015. Counsel shall submit the Proposed

Scheduling Order in Word format to the Court's mailbox at

silver_chambers@azd.uscourts.gov.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED after the Scheduling Conference the Court will enter

a Scheduling Order that shall control the course of this action. To the extent the Court’s

Scheduling Order differs from the parties’/counsel’s Proposed Case Management Plan and/or

Proposed Scheduling Order, the Court’s Order shall control the course of this action unless

modified by Court order, pursuant to FRCP 16(b) and (c). 

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that counsel/parties shall obtain and use from this

Court's website at www.azd.uscourts.gov, (refer to Judges Information; Orders, Forms &

Procedures for the Hon. Roslyn O. Silver), only the Court’s forms for the Agenda for the

Case Management Meeting, the Proposed Case Management Plan, the Proposed Rule 16

Scheduling Order, the Joint Proposed Pretrial Order and other documents and orders that are

adopted and/or issued by this Court throughout the course of this action.

DATED this 13th day of February, 2015.

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