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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MICHAEL GAREDAKIS, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

BRENTWOOD UNION SCHOOL 

DISTRICT, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 14-cv-04799-PJH 

CASE MANAGEMENT 

AND PRETRIAL ORDER

Good cause appearing, the court hereby adopts the case management statement 

of the parties except as modified by the following: 

PRETRIAL SCHEDULE

TRIAL DATE: September 19, 2016, at 8:30 a.m., Courtroom 3, 3rd Fl.

JURY [x] COURT []

TRIAL LENGTH: No more than 12 days.

PRETRIAL CONFERENCE DATE: August 25, 2016, at 2:00 P.M.

DISPOSITIVE MOTIONS (Only one summary judgment motion per party is permitted 

without leave of court) TO BE HEARD BY: May 11, 2016.

NON-EXPERT DISCOVERY CUTOFF: January 15, 2016.

DISCLOSURE OF EXPERTS BY PLAINTIFF: (retained and non-retained): 2/5/16.

DISCLOSURE OF EXPERTS BY DEFENDANT: (retained and non-retained): 2/12/16. 

EXPERT DISCOVERY CUTOFF: March 18, 2016.

DISCOVERY DISPUTES REFERRED TO MAGISTRATE JUDGE AFTER MOTION IS FILED.

LAST DAY TO AMEND PLEADINGS: no later than 90 days before fact discovery cutoff 

date a motion or a stipulation must be filed so sufficient time remains to conduct 

discovery on added claims or parties. Do defendants must be identified by this 

deadline or they will be dismissed.

[x]SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE with Magistrate Judge Beeler by, 10/31/15, or as soon 

thereafter as is convenient for the assigned judge.

ADDITIONAL ORDERS:

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PRETRIAL INSTRUCTIONS

A. PRETRIAL MOTIONS

1. All dispositive motions are heard no later than 120 days before trial, unless 

leave of court is obtained for another deadline.

2. Only one summary judgment motion may be filed by each side, absent leave of 

court. Leave of court may be sought if multiple parties comprise one or both sides. 

Leave of court may be obtained by filing a motion for administrative relief pursuant 

to Civ. L. R. 7-11, or by requesting a case management conference or informal 

telephone conference.

3. Separate statements of undisputed facts in support of or in opposition to motions 

for summary judgment shall NOT be filed. See Civil L. R. 56-2. The parties may 

file a truly joint statement of undisputed facts only if all parties agree that the facts 

are undisputed.

4. Objections to evidence may no longer be filed separately but must be contained 

within a brief or memorandum. Civil L. R. 7-3. 

5. Each party filing or opposing a motion shall also serve and file a proposed order

which sets forth the relief or action sought and a short statement of the rationale of 

decision, including citation of authority that the party requests the court to adopt. 

6. Chambers copies of each electronically-filed document must include on each 

page the running header created by the ECF system and must be delivered to the 

Clerk's Office by noon the day following its filing. All documents must be stapled 

or bound by a two-pronged fastener, and all exhibits to declarations or requests for 

judicial notice must be tabbed.

7. Footnotes in briefs appearing in smaller than the 12-point font required for the 

text, will be stricken, see Civil L. R. 3-4(c)(2), as will footnotes that are so 

numerous as to be clearly designed to defeat the page limits found at Civil L. R. 7-

2 - 7-4.

8. Motions pursuant to Daubert v. Merrill Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 579 

(1993), challenging the reliability of expert testimony, may be noticed for hearing 

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on the date dispositive motions will be heard or on any available hearing date up 

to and including the date of the final pretrial conference. Irrespective of the 

hearing date, the briefs shall be filed in accordance with Civil L. R. 7-2 - 7-5, that 

is, on a 35-day briefing schedule.

9. Motions in limine are limited to motions to exclude specific items of evidence on 

a ground and upon such authority as would be sufficient to sustain an objection to 

such evidence at trial. The court will not generally consider a motion presenting a 

purely legal issue in the guise of a motion in limine.

10.Discovery motions will be referred to a Magistrate Judge for resolution. The words 

"Discovery Matter" shall appear in the caption of all documents relating to 

discovery to insure proper routing.

11.Confidential and/or sealed documents shall be handled in accordance with this 

court's standing order and Civil L.R. 79-5, both of which the parties shall consult 

before moving for a protective order or requesting a sealing order. Requests to 

seal documents used in conjunction with dispositive motions are rarely granted 

and then only upon a showing of the most compelling of reasons.

B. FINAL PRETRIAL CONFERENCE

1. Each party shall attend personally or by counsel who will try the case.

2. Not less than 35 days prior to the pretrial conference, all counsel and/or parties 

shall meet and confer regarding preparation of the joint pretrial statement.

3. Not less than 28 days prior to the pretrial conference, counsel and/or parties 

shall:

a. Serve and file a joint pretrial statement. (Separately filed statements will not be 

accepted by the court and monetary sanctions will be imposed upon the party 

failing to cooperate in the preparation of a joint statement).

The pretrial statement shall include the following:

i. A brief description of the substance of the claims and defenses which 

remain to be decided.

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ii. A detailed statement of all relief sought, itemizing all elements of 

damages claimed.

iii. A statement of all relevant undisputed facts to which the parties will 

stipulate for incorporation into the trial record without the necessity of 

supporting testimony or exhibits.

iv. A statement of all relevant disputed facts which remain to be decided.

v. A statement of stipulations requested or proposed.

vi. A brief statement of disputed points of law concerning liability and relief. 

Legal argument on these points shall be reserved for the trial briefs.

vii. A statement of whether bifurcation or a separate trial of specific issues is 

feasible and desired.

viii. A statement summarizing the status of settlement negotiations and 

indicating whether further negotiations are likely to be productive.

b. Serve and file trial briefs (not to exceed 25 pages), which shall specify each 

cause of action and defense remaining to be tried along with a statement of the 

applicable legal standard (no opposition shall be filed);

c. Serve and file no more than ten motions in limine, which shall be filed in one 

document not to exceed 25 pages;

d. Serve and file a list of deposition excerpts for witnesses who will not testify in 

person, (specifying the witness, page and line references) and other discovery 

responses that will be offered at trial;

e. Serve and file a list of all witnesses to be called at trial, in person or by 

deposition, other than solely for impeachment or rebuttal, with a brief statement 

describing the substance of the testimony to be given;

f. Serve and file a numerical list of exhibits that will be offered as evidence in a 

party's case in chief in support of a claim or defense, with a brief statement 

describing the substance and purpose of each exhibit and the name of the 

sponsoring witness;

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g. Exchange exhibits which shall be premarked with an exhibit sticker (example 

attached), tabbed and in binders. Plaintiff shall use numbers (1, 2, 3, etc.) and 

defendant shall use numbers preceded by a letter (A-1, A-2, A-3, etc.). 

Additional parties shall also use a letter preceding numbers (B-1, B-2, B-3, or 

C-1, C-2, C-3, etc.).

h. Submit two sets for jury trials and three sets for court trials of all premarked 

exhibits to the Clerk's Office (exhibits are not filed);

i. Serve and file any request regarding the treatment of confidential or sealed 

documents.

j. Serve and file proposed joint voir dire questions and joint jury instructions for 

cases to be tried by jury;

k. Serve and file proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law for cases or 

claims to be tried by the court.

l. Serve and file a proposed verdict form which contains no reference to 

submitting party.

4. No party shall be permitted to call any witness or offer any exhibit in its case in 

chief that is not disclosed in these pretrial filings without leave of court and for 

good cause.

5. Not less than 14 days prior to the pretrial conference, counsel and/or parties shall 

serve and file any opposition to a motion in limine and any counter deposition 

designations. No replies shall be filed. All motions shall be heard at the pretrial 

conference unless otherwise ordered. The parties shall not file separate 

objections, apart from those contained in the motions in limine, to the opposing 

party's witness list, exhibit list or discovery designations. notwithstanding Civil 

Local Rule 5-1(e)(7), a courtesy copy of any opposition brief must be 

delivered to the Clerk's Office no later than noon the day following the filing.

C. JURY TRIAL

Jury Selection shall proceed as follows: The Jury Commissioner will summon 20 

to 25 prospective jurors. The Courtroom Deputy will select their names at random and 

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seat them in the courtroom in the order in which their names are called. Voir dire will be 

conducted of sufficient venire members so that six to eight 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 at side bar. 

The court will inform counsel which hardship claims and cause challenges will be 

granted, but will not announce those dismissals until the selection process is completed. 

Peremptory challenges will be made in writing. The court will strike at one time those 

with meritorious hardship claims, those excused for cause, and those challenged 

peremptorily, and then seat the first six to eight people remaining in numerical order.

The attached voir dire questionnaire shall be given to the venire members and 

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

Counsel shall submit a joint set of additional voir dire questions to be posed by the court. 

Any voir dire questions on which counsel cannot agree may be submitted separately. 

Counsel will be permitted brief follow-up voir dire after the court's questioning.

The following jury instructions from the Ninth Circuit Manual of Model Jury 

Instructions Civil (2007 Edition) shall be given absent objection: 1.0 - 1.4, 1.6 - 1.14, 1.18 

- 1.19, 3.1 - 3.4. Counsel shall submit a joint set of these instructions along with case 

specific instructions using the Ninth Circuit Manual where appropriate. Any instructions 

on which counsel cannot agree may be submitted separately. Each instruction shall be 

typed in full on a separate page with citations to the authority upon which it is based and

a reference to the party submitting it. A second blind copy of each instruction shall also 

be submitted omitting the citation to authority and the reference to the submitting party, 

but retaining the title of the instruction.

D. TRIAL SCHEDULE

The court's trial schedule is 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. with two fifteen-minute breaks, 

on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

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E. PROCEDURE FOR AMENDING THIS ORDER

No provision of this order may be changed except by written order of this court 

upon its own motion or upon motion of one or more parties made pursuant to Civil. L. R. 

7-11 with a showing of good cause. Parties may file a formal brief, but a letter brief will 

suffice. The requesting party shall serve the opposing party on the same day the motion 

is filed and the opposing party shall submit a response as soon as possible but no later 

than four days after service.

If the modification sought is an extension of a deadline contained herein, the 

motion must be brought before expiration of that deadline. The parties may not modify 

the pretrial schedule by stipulation. A conflict with a court date set after the date of 

this order does not constitute good cause. The parties are advised that if they stipulate to 

a change in the discovery schedule, they do so at their own risk. The only discovery 

schedule that the court will enforce is the one set in this order. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 23, 2015

____________________________________

PHYLLIS J. HAMILTON

United States District Judge

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CONFIDENTIAL

JUROR QUESTIONNAIRE

Please fill out this form as completely as possible and print clearly. This will assist the 

judge and the lawyers in selecting a jury and will save time for them and for you. 

Because copies will be made for the attorneys and the judge, 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. City in which you 

reside:

4. If you have lived there for fewer than five years, where did you live before:

5. Your place of birth:

6. Your marital status: 

[ ] 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. If you have held this job for fewer than five years, describe your previous job:

10. If you are married, please list your spouse's occupation.

11. If you have children, please list their ages and genders and, if they are employed, 

please give their occupations.

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