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Nature of Suit Code: 485
Nature of Suit: 
Cause of Action: 47:227 Restrictions of Use of Telephone Equipment

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

State of Arizona, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v. 

Michael D Lansky LLC, et al.,

Defendants.

No. CV-23-00233-TUC-CKJ

CASE MANAGEMENT

SCHEDULING ORDER 

The Court, having reviewed the parties' Supplemental Joint Case Management 

Report (Doc. 96), the original case management plan (Doc. 79), and the individual 

discovery plans (Docs. 89 and 95), 

IT IS ORDERED that the parties abide by the following schedule and rules:

A. Initial disclosures, under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure ("Federal Rules") 

26(a)(1) the parties made these disclosures on September 6, 2024, except Defendants 

failed to produce a copy or description by category and location of all documents, 

electronically stored information and tangible things that they have in their possession, 

custody, or control and may use to support their claims or defenses, unless the use would 

be solely for impeachment. Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(a)(1)(A)(ii). If such disclosures have not 

been made, Defendants shall make these disclosures within 14 days of the filing date of 

this Order.

The Court notifies the parties that to satisfy the requirement of Rule 26, the parties 

shall file a Notice of Service of discovery papers with the Clerk of the Court, rather than 

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copies of actual disclosures. See Rules of Practice of the United States District Court for 

the District of Arizona, Civil ("Local Rules") 5.2.

B. The Federal Rule of Civil Procedure, Rule 15, shall apply for any joinder 

of additional parties or to amend the pleadings. 

C. Expert Testimony, pursuant to Federal Rule 26(a)(2), shall take place as 

follows: Plaintiff shall notice initial expert testimony on or before September 1, 2025. 

Notice of Defendant’s initial expert testimony pursuant to Federal Rule 26(a)(2) shall take 

place on or before October 1, 2025. Notice of rebuttal expert testimony shall be completed 

on or before October 15, 2025. 

D. Fact witnesses shall be disclosed by name (i.e., a witness list) to be used at 

trial pursuant to the provisions of Federal Rule 26(a)(3) on or before September 1, 2025.

E. All discovery, including depositions of parties and witnesses, shall be 

completed by November 3, 2025. 

1. Generally, the limits on discovery by as set forth in Federal Rules 30, 

31, and 33 shall apply: twenty-five (25) single-part question interrogatories, depositions 

of parties, except party depositions are limited to Defendants, the lead Plaintiff States of 

Arizona, Indiana, North Carolina, and Ohio, and any Plaintiff state bringing state law 

actions against Defendants. The parties may conduct depositions of respective experts and 

not more than ten non-party fact witness depositions per party. 

2. Notwithstanding any provisions of the Federal Rules or any other 

provisions of this Order, non-party witnesses shall not be allowed to attend, physically, 

electronically or otherwise, the deposition of any other witness in this case without an 

Order of the Court to the contrary.

3. The parties and counsel are reminded of their duty under Federal Rule 

26(e) to supplement all Rule 26(a) disclosures and responses to discovery requests. 

Pursuant to Rule 26(e)(1), any additions or other changes to information previously 

disclosed must be made prior to the time that Rule 26(a)(3) Pretrial Disclosures are due. 

This Order contemplates that all exhibits and witnesses that may be offered at trial will 

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have been disclosed before the close of discovery. This Order, therefore, supersedes the 

"30 days before trial" disclosure deadline contained in Rule 26(a)(3). Therefore, (1) failure 

to timely supplement Rule 26(a) disclosure, including but not limited to witnesses and 

exhibits, or (2) failure to timely supplement responses to any valid discovery requests, or 

(3) attempting to include any witnesses or exhibits in the Proposed Final Pretrial Order that 

were not previously disclosed in a timely manner as to allow for meaningful discovery 

prior to the discovery cutoff date, may result in the exclusion of such evidence at trial or 

the imposition of sanctions.

4. Pursuant to Local Rule 7.2(j), parties must personally consult and 

make a sincere effort to resolve a discovery dispute before seeking the Court's assistance. 

If the parties are unable to resolve a discovery dispute, the parties shall notify the Court by 

calling the law clerk, Greer Barkley, by telephone at (520) 205-4550. Written briefs shall 

be filed only at the direction of the Court.

F. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 502:

1. The production of privileged or work-product protected documents, 

electronically stored information (ESI) or information, whether inadvertent or otherwise, 

is not a waiver of the privilege or protection from discovery in this case or in any other 

federal or state proceeding. This order shall be interpreted to provide the maximum 

protection allowed by Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d).

2. Nothing contained herein is intended to or shall serve to limit a party's 

right to conduct a review of documents, ESI, or information (including metadata) for 

relevance, responsiveness and/or segregation of privileged and/or protected information 

before production.

G. Dispositive motions shall be filed on or before December 1, 2025. 

1. If a party seeks oral argument on a motion, the party shall request it at 

the time the motion or response is filed, pursuant to Local Rule 7.2(f).

2. Pursuant to Local Rule 7.2, parties may file a motion, response and 

reply. No additional briefing on a motion is allowed unless leave of Court is granted. 

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Failure to file a response may be deemed a consent to a granting of the motion. A response 

must be served and filed within fourteen (14) days of service of the motion; the moving 

party has seven (7) days from service to serve and file a reply. Federal Rule 56 motions 

for summary judgment and Federal Rule 12(b)(1) motions to dismiss for lack of subject 

matter jurisdiction provide an exception to the above time limits – time for response is 

thirty (30) days and for reply fifteen (15) days. See L.R. 56.1(d). Unless otherwise 

permitted by the Court, a motion or response, inclusive of supporting memorandum but 

exclusive of attachments and statement of facts, shall not exceed seventeen (17) pages; a 

reply shall not exceed eleven (11) pages.

3. The Court advises the parties that the Local Rule requirement that 

“[a]ny party opposing a motion for summary judgment shall file a statement, separate from 

that party’s memorandum of law, setting forth . . . for each paragraph of the moving party’s 

separate statement of facts, a correspondingly numbered paragraph indicating whether the 

party disputes the statement of fact set forth in that paragraph and a reference to the specific 

admissible portion of the record supporting the party’s position if the fact is disputed ... [,]” 

L.R.Civ. 56.1, shall only apply to material facts that establish or dispute a genuine issue in 

dispute.

4. Any pleading which is submitted with more than one exhibit must be 

accompanied by a Table of Contents. The exhibits must be indexed with tabs that 

correspond to the Table of Contents. 

5. Absent exigent circumstances, the Court will not consider pleadings 

which do not conform to these requirements.

H. A brief Joint Settlement Status Report (containing no specific settlement 

terms or offers) on or before April 1, 2025, and every three (3) months thereafter. Should 

this action be resolved through settlement, the parties shall advise the Court within ten (10) 

days of settlement. 

I. The Joint Proposed Pretrial Order (Pretrial Statement) shall be filed 

within thirty (30) days after resolution of dispositive motions filed after the end of 

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discovery. If no such motions are filed, a Joint Proposed Pretrial Order will be due on or 

before December 15, 2025. The content of the proposed pretrial order shall include, but 

not be limited to, that prescribed in the Form of Pretrial Order attached hereto.

1. Pursuant to Federal Rule 37(c), the Court will not allow the parties to 

offer any exhibits, witnesses or other information that were not previously disclosed in 

accordance with the provisions of this Order and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, or 

not listed in the Proposed Pretrial Order, except for good cause.

2. The attorneys for each party who will be responsible for trial of the 

lawsuit shall appear and participate in a Pretrial Conference to be scheduled by the Court 

after receipt of the pretrial order. Because Pretrial Conferences are held for the parties' 

benefit, and because the parties' presence will facilitate frank discussion of the pertinent 

issues in the lawsuit, each party or a representative with binding settlement authority shall 

attend the Pretrial Conference.

3. Parties are directed to the District of Arizona website located at 

www.azd.uscourts.gov for instructions on marking and submitting exhibits including 

exhibit lists and witness lists for trial or evidentiary hearings. Parties are responsible for 

providing their own exhibit tags. Plaintiff must use yellow tags which are marked 

commencing with number 1. Defendant must use blue tags which are numbered 

sequentially following the last number used by Plaintiff. Counsel shall submit the witness 

and exhibit lists to the Deputy Clerk no later than the morning of trial. Copies of exhibits 

for the Judge shall be in a tabbed binder.

J. For a trial before the Court, rather than to a jury, the parties shall submit 

with their Proposed Pretrial Order, Proposed Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law. 

They shall be submitted in both written format and emailed to the chambers email address, 

see infra, in a format compatible with Microsoft Word.

K. Motions in limine shall be filed along with the Proposed Pretrial Order. 

Responses to motions in limine are due fourteen (14) days after the motion is filed. No 

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replies are permitted. Each motion in limine shall include the legal basis supporting it. 

Any hearing on motions in limine will be set at the Pretrial Conference.

L. All non-dispositive motions shall be accompanied by a form of order for the 

Court's signature. Pursuant to Local Rule 7.1(b)(2), the form of order shall be prepared on 

a separate document containing the case caption. The form of order shall not contain the 

parties' letterhead. The proposed form of order shall be emailed to the chambers email 

address: jorgenson_chambers@azd.uscourts.gov. ECF Administrative Policies and 

Procedures Manual, § II.G.1.c.

M. Motions for extensions of any of the deadlines set forth above shall be 

governed by Federal Rule 16 and Local Rule 7.3. A motion for continuance shall be filed 

prior to the expiration of the deadline. See Local Rule 7.3. The schedule set forth in this 

Order may only be modified with leave of Court and upon a showing of good cause. See 

Federal Rule 16(b); Johnson v. Mammoth Recreations, Inc., 975 F.2d 604, 607-10 (9th Cir. 

1992) (requiring a showing of good cause under Rule 16 to amend complaint beyond the 

scheduling order deadline). Additionally, any motion for continuance of a discovery 

deadline, including a stipulation, shall set forth specifically what discovery has been 

conducted to date, the discovery to be completed, and the reasons why discovery has not 

been completed within the deadline.

This order contemplates that each party will conduct discovery in such a manner as 

to complete, within the deadline, any and all discovery. "Last minute or eleventh hour" 

discovery which results in insufficient time to undertake additional discovery and requires 

an extension of the discovery deadline will be met with disfavor, and could result in denial 

of an extension, exclusion of evidence, or the imposition of other sanctions.

Dated this 10th day of December, 2024.

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

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Plaintiff, 

vs.

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Defendant. 

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No. CIV -TUC-CKJ

PROPOSED JOINT PRETRIAL ORDER

Pursuant to the Scheduling Order entered , 20__, following

is the Joint Proposed Final Pretrial Order to be considered at the pretrial conference.

A. COUNSEL FOR THE PARTIES

Plaintiff(s):

Defendant(s):

B. STATEMENT OF JURISDICTION

Cite the statute(s) that gives the Court jurisdiction, and whether jurisdiction is

disputed. 

(E.g.: Jurisdiction in this case is based on diversity of citizenship under Title 28

U.S.C. § 1332. Jurisdiction is (not) disputed.)

C. NATURE OF ACTION

Provide a concise statement of the type of case, the cause of the action, and the

relief sought.

(E.g.: This is a products liability case wherein the plaintiff seeks damages for

personal injuries sustained when he fell from the driver's seat of a forklift. The

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plaintiff contends that the forklift was defectively designed and manufactured by

the defendant and that the defects were a producing cause of his injuries and

damages.)

D. CONTENTIONS OF THE PARTIES

With respect to each count of the complaint, counterclaim or cross-claim, and to

any defense, affirmative defense, or the rebuttal of a presumption where the burden

of proof has shifted, the party having the burden of proof shall list the elements or

standards that must be proved in order for the party to prevail on that claim or

defense. 

(E.g.: In order to prevail on this products liability case, the plaintiff must prove the

following elements . . . )

(E.g.: In order to defeat this products liability claim based on the statute of repose,

the defendant must prove the following elements . . . )

E. STIPULATIONS AND UNCONTESTED FACTS

F. CONTESTED ISSUES OF FACT AND LAW

G. LISTS OF WITNESSES

A jointly prepared list of witnesses, identifying each as either plaintiff's or

defendant's and indicating whether a fact or expert witness, must accompany this

proposed order. 

A brief statement as to the testimony of each expert witness must be included.

H. LIST OF EXHIBITS

Each party must submit with this proposed order a list of numbered exhibits, with a

description of each containing sufficient information to identify the exhibit, and

indicating whether an objection to its admission is anticipated.

Exhibits should be marked according to instructions received from the court.

I. MOTIONS IN LIMINE

Motions in limine shall be filed and served upon each party with this proposed

order. Any opposition shall be filed and served within fourteen (14) days.

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J. LIST OF ANY PENDING MOTIONS

K. PROBABLE LENGTH OF TRIAL

L. FOR A BENCH TRIAL

Proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law shall be served and filed on each

party with this proposed order.

M. FOR A JURY TRIAL

Stipulated jury instructions shall be filed thirty (30) days before trial. Instructions

which are not agreed upon, and a concise argument in support of the instruction,

shall be filed and served upon each party thirty (30) days before trial. Objections

to the non-agreed upon instructions shall be filed and served upon each party

within fourteen (14) days.

N. CERTIFICATION

The undersigned counsel for each of the parties in this action do hereby certify and

acknowledge the following:

1. All discovery has been completed.

2. The identity of each witness has been disclosed to opposing counsel.

3. Each exhibit listed herein: (a) is in existence; (b) is numbered, and: (c) has

been disclosed and shown to opposing counsel.

O. ADOPTION

The Court may adopt this proposed Joint Pretrial Order at the Pre-Trial Conference

or subsequent hearing.

DATED this day of , 20___.

APPROVED AS TO FORM AND CONTENT

 Attorney for Plaintiff Attorney for Defendant

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