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Nature of Suit Code: 555
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Prison Condition
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RUBEN J. RUIZ,

Plaintiff,

v.

M. SAWAYA, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 11-cv-03126-JST 

ORDER RE: TRIAL SCHEDULE

Re: ECF No. 122

This case is currently scheduled to begin trial on April 25, 2016. ECF No. 122. The 

parties have filed their Joint Pretrial Statement and three Motions in Limine in anticipation of the 

Pretrial Conference to be held on April 1, 2016. ECF Nos. 127, 128, 129, 130.

However, a trial in another case, Holzhauer v. Golden Gate Bridge Highway & 

Transportation District, Case No. 13-cv-02862-JST, will already be ongoing on April 25; jury 

selection in Holzhauer is scheduled to begin on April 11, 2016. 

The Court’s practice is to schedule multiple trials with overlapping schedules, because the 

Court’s calendar space is so limited and the overwhelming majority of cases settle before trial. 

Very rarely do two cases with conflicting dates actually proceed to trial at the same time, but it has 

happened here. 

Therefore, unless the Holzhauer case settles before April 1, 2016, the Court will not 

conduct a pretrial conference on that date. Instead, the Court will use that hearing as a case 

management conference, and reset the trial and pretrial conference dates. The parties are ordered 

to meet and confer regarding a proposed new trial date, and to submit a joint proposal to the Court 

no later than March 30, 2016. In the same filing, the parties should advise the Court whether 

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further settlement efforts with Magistrate Judge Vadas would be helpful. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 24, 2016

______________________________________

JON S. TIGAR

United States District Judge

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