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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Petition for Removal

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ROBERT HOWE,

Plaintiff,

v.

SAP INDUSTRIES, INC., et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 16-cv-00373-JST 

SCHEDULING ORDER

The Court hereby sets the following case deadlines pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil 

Procedure 16 and Civil Local Rule 16-10:

Event Deadline

Deadline to add parties or amend the pleadings June 10, 20161

Fact discovery cut-off December 8, 2016

Deadline to file dispositive motions January 6, 2017

Expert disclosures January 27, 2017

Expert rebuttal February 10, 2017

Expert discovery cut-off February 24, 2017

Pretrial conference statement due March 21, 2017

 

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The effect of this deadline is to trigger Rule 16’s good cause requirement. Fed. R. Civ. P. 

16(b)(4). 

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Event Deadline

Pretrial conference March 31, 2017 at 

2:00 p.m.

Trial April 24, 2017 at 

8:30 a.m.

Estimate of trial length (in days) Eight

Counsel may not modify these dates without leave of court. The parties shall comply with 

the Court’s standing orders, which are available at cand.uscourts.gov/jstorders.

The parties must take all necessary steps to conduct discovery, compel discovery, hire 

counsel, retain experts, and manage their calendars so that they can complete discovery in a timely 

manner and appear at trial on the noticed and scheduled dates. All counsel must arrange their 

calendars to accommodate these dates, or arrange to substitute or associate in counsel who can. 

Trial dates set by this Court should be regarded as firm. Requests for continuance are 

disfavored. The Court will not consider any event subsequently scheduled by a party, partycontrolled witness, expert or attorney that conflicts with the above trial date as good cause to grant 

a continuance. The Court will not consider the pendency of settlement discussions as good cause 

to grant a continuance. 

The Case Management Conference scheduled for June 8, 2016 is VACATED.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 6, 2016

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JON S. TIGAR

United States District Judge

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