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Nature of Suit Code: 446
Nature of Suit: Americans with Disabilities Act - Other
Cause of Action: 42:12101 Americans with Disabilities Act

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

LANCE SHARP, et al

CIV. S-07-2329 JAM DAD

Plaintiffs, 

v. STATUS (Pre-trial 

 Scheduling) ORDER

WESTSIDE JAVA and CAFE, et al

Defendants. 

 /

After review of the Joint Status Report, the court

makes the following order:

SERVICE OF PROCESS

All parties defendant to this lawsuit have been served and

no further service will be permitted except with leave of court,

good cause having been shown. 

JOINDER OF ADDITIONAL PARTIES/AMENDMENTS

No further joinder of parties or amendments to pleadings is

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permitted except with leave of court, good cause having been

shown. 

JURISDICTION AND VENUE

Jurisdiction and venue are not contested.

FICTITIOUSLY-NAMED DEFENDANTS

This action, including any counterclaims, cross-claims, and

third party complaints is hereby DISMISSED as to all DOE or other

fictitiously-named defendants.

MOTION HEARINGS SCHEDULES

All dispositive motions shall be filed by February 11, 2009. 

Hearing on such motions shall be on March 11, 2009 at 9:00 a.m.

The time deadline for dispositive motions does not apply to

motions for continuances, temporary restraining orders or other

emergency applications. 

THE OPPOSITION AND REPLY MUST BE FILED BY 4:00 P.M. ON THE

DAY DUE.

All purely legal issues are to be resolved by timely pretrial motions. The parties are reminded that motions in limine

are procedural devices designed to address the admissibility of 

evidence and are cautioned that the court will look with disfavor

upon substantive motions presented at the final pre-trial

conference or at trial in the guise of motions in limine. The

parties are further cautioned that if any legal issue which

should have been tendered to the court by proper pre-trial motion

requires resolution by the court after the established law and

motion cut-off date, substantial sanctions may be assessed for

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the failure to file the appropriate pre-trial motion. 

Unless prior permission has been granted, memoranda of law

in support of and in opposition to motions are limited to twentyfive (25) pages, and reply memoranda are limited to ten (10)

pages. The parties are also cautioned against filing multiple

briefs to circumvent this rule.

DISCOVERY

All discovery shall be completed by January 9, 2009. In

this context, "completed" means that all discovery shall have

been conducted so that all depositions have been taken and any

disputes relative to discovery shall have been resolved by

appropriate order if necessary and, where discovery has been

ordered, the order has been complied with. 

DISCLOSURE OF EXPERT WITNESSES

The parties shall make expert witness disclosures under

Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(a)(2) by October 10, 2008. Supplemental

disclosure and disclosure of any rebuttal experts under

Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(a)(2)(c) shall be made by October 17, 2008.

Failure of a party to comply with the disclosure schedule as

set forth above in all likelihood will preclude that party from

calling the expert witness at the time of trial absent a showing

that the necessity for the witness could not have been reasonably

anticipated at the time the disclosures were ordered and that the

failure to make timely disclosure did not prejudice any other

party. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 37(c).

All experts designated are to be fully prepared at the time

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of designation to render an informed opinion, and give their

reasons therefore, so that they will be able to give full and

complete testimony at any deposition taken by the opposing

parties. Experts will not be permitted to testify at the trial

as to any information gathered or evaluated, or opinion formed,

after deposition taken subsequent to designation.

JOINT MID-LITIGATION STATEMENTS

Not later than fourteen (14) days prior to the close of

discovery, the parties shall file with the court a brief joint

statement summarizing all law and motion practice heard by the

court as of the date of the filing of the statement, whether the

court has disposed of the motion at the time the statement is

filed and served, and the likelihood that any further motions

will be noticed prior to the close of law and motion. The filing

of this statement shall not relieve the parties or counsel of

their obligation to timely notice all appropriate motions as set

forth above.

FINAL PRE-TRIAL CONFERENCE

The final pre-trial conference is set for April 15, 2009 at

4:00 p.m. In each instance an attorney who will try the case for

a given party shall attend the final pretrial conference on behalf

of that party; provided, however, that if by reason of illness or

other unavoidable circumstance the trial attorney is unable to

attend, the attorney who attends in place of the trial attorney

shall have equal familiarity with the case and equal authorization

to make commitments on behalf of the client. All pro se parties

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must attend the pre-trial conference. 

Counsel for all parties and all pro se parties are to be

fully prepared for trial at the time of the pre-trial conference,

with no matters remaining to be accomplished except production of

witnesses for oral testimony. The parties shall file with the

court, no later than seven days prior to the final pre-trial

conference, a joint pre-trial statement. 

Also at the time of filing the Joint Pretrial Statement, counsel

are requested to e-mail the Joint Pretrial Statement in WPD or

Word format to Judge Mendez's assistant, Jane Pratt

at: jpratt@caed.uscourts.gov. 

 Where the parties are unable to agree as to what legal or

factual issues are properly before the court for trial, they

should nevertheless list all issues asserted by any of the parties

and indicate by appropriate footnotes the disputes concerning such

issues. The provisions of Local Rule 16-281 shall, however, apply

with respect to the matters to be included in the joint pre-trial

statement. Failure to comply with Local Rule 16-281, as modified

herein, may be grounds for sanctions. 

The parties are reminded that pursuant to Local Rule

16-281(b)(10) and (11) they are required to list in the final pretrial statement all witnesses and exhibits they propose to offer

at trial, no matter for what purpose. These lists shall not be

contained in the body of the final pre-trial statement itself, but

shall be attached as separate documents so that the court may

attach them as an addendum to the final pre-trial order. The

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final pre-trial order will contain a stringent standard for the

offering at trial of witnesses and exhibits not listed in the

final pre-trial order, and the parties are cautioned that the

standard will be strictly applied. On the other hand, the listing

of exhibits or witnesses that a party does not intend to offer

will be viewed as an abuse of the court's processes. 

The parties are also reminded that pursuant to Rule 16,

Fed. R. Civ. P., it will be their duty at the final pre-trial conference to aid the court in: (a) formulation and simplification of

issues and the elimination of frivolous claims or defenses; (b)

settling of facts which should properly be admitted; and (c) the

avoidance of unnecessary proof and cumulative evidence. Counsel

must cooperatively prepare the joint pre-trial statement and participate in good faith at the final pre-trial conference with

these aims in mind. A failure to do so may result in the imposition of sanctions which may include monetary sanctions, orders

precluding proof, elimination of claims or defenses, or such other

sanctions as the court deems appropriate. 

TRIAL SETTING

Trial in this matter is set for May 18, 2009 at 8:30 a.m. 

The parties estimate a trial length of approximately 5 - 7 days.

SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE

No Settlement Conference is currently scheduled. If the

parties wish to have a settlement conference, one will be

scheduled at the final pretrial conference or at an earlier time

upon request of the parties. 

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OBJECTIONS TO STATUS (PRETRIAL SCHEDULING) ORDER

This Status Order will become final without further Order of

Court unless objection is lodged within seven (7) days of the date

of the filing of this Order. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 16, 2008

 /s/ John A. Mendez 

 HON. JOHN A. MENDEZ

 United States District Judge

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