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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Breach of Contract

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

Game Time L.L.P., 

Plaintiff, 

vs.

Totally Tickets, Inc., et al. 

Defendants. 

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No. 04-CV-0700-PHX-PGR

 

 ORDER

A Pretrial Conference was held in this matter on February 12, 2007 at 3:00 p.m.

During that conference, the Court admonished the parties for failing to adhere to this Court's

required format for the Joint Pretrial Statement. The document presented to the Court was

inadequate. As such, the Court admonished the parties and ordered that a revised Joint

Pretrial Statement be filed with the Court within two weeks. A telephonic Pretrial

Conference was then scheduled for March 5, 2007. However, it is clear to the Court after

receiving and reviewing the parties' Amended Joint Pretrial Statement on February 26, 2007,

that the revised Joint Pretrial Statement was not a jointly prepared document as required and

would not assist this Court in moving the matter to trial. The telephonic Pretrial Conference

was vacated. The Court now finds that it would be fruitless to reset the Pretrial Conference

due to counsel's repeated failure to adequately prepare this document. This forces the Court

to conclude that the issues that it hoped would be resolved during the Pretrial Conference and

through the Joint Pretrial Statement must now be resolved at trial. Therefore, 

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1The parties are advised that they will receive a packet with instructions

on the marking and submission of trial exhibits from the Court’s courtroom

deputy, Traci Abraham, (602)322-7225 approximately two weeks before trial.

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IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the jury trial in this matter shall commence on

Tuesday, June 19, 2007, at 9:00 a.m., in the United States District Court, Courtroom 601,

401 W. Washington Street, Phoenix, Arizona. The maximum length of the trial shall be ten

(10) days. The parties are hereby notified that this is a firm trial date. The Court will

entertain no motions to continue due to vacations or conflicts with counsel's other trials or

in-court hearings. If counsel finds that it does have a trial conflict he is ordered to inform the

court in writing within five (5) days of the date of this order. The notice to the Court shall

include the substance of that conflict, the name of the presiding Judge, and the contact

information for that Judge's chambers. The Court will resolve the conflict directly.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that each party shall file a trial brief no later than

Tuesday, May 29, 2007, by 1:00 p.m. The trial brief shall raise all significant disputed

issues of law and fact, including foreseeable procedural and evidentiary issues, and shall set

forth the party’s positions thereon with supporting arguments and authorities. 

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the parties shall file their proposed voir dire

questions and proposed jury instructions, together with proposed forms of verdict for each

count of the complaint, including special interrogatories, if applicable, no later than

Tuesday, May 29, 2007, by 1:00 p.m.

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 Proposed jury instructions shall be filed in

compliance with LRCiv 51.1, AS MODIFIED BY THE ATTACHED EXHIBIT

SETTING FORTH THE COURT'S ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR

SUBMITTING JURY INSTRUCTIONS.

Counsel are advised that the instructions for submitting jury instructions must

be followed.

DATED this 17th day of April, 2007.

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REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMITTING CIVIL JURY INSTRUCTIONS IN JUDGE

ROSENBLATT’S COURT:

Counsel are warned that improper submission of jury

instructions will result in the striking of same.

Counsel to use only 2001 Ninth Circuit Model Civil Jury

Instructions, together with any amendments thereto.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR E-FILING JURY INSTRUCTIONS WITH THE CLERK OF THE

COURT:

Counsel to e-file the following:

• Jury Instructions with no modifications: If a Ninth Circuit

model instruction has no modifications, list only that

instruction number and instruction title.

• Requested/Modified Jury Instructions: If a Ninth Circuit

model instruction has a blank, that information must be

filled out, in bold, by Counsel, unless it is information

that cannot be filled out until the Judge and Counsel go

over jury instructions at close of trial. – In any event,

that modified instruction must now be part of Counsel's

requested instructions and must be numbered as such.* 

• – If a Ninth Circuit model instruction has been modified,*

counsel must type such modification in bold, such that the

Court can easily determine which portion of the instruction

is the standard, and which portion has been modified.

• – If a Ninth Circuit model instruction has been modified,*

counsel must submit each modified instruction on its own

page.

* Any model instruction which has been modified will be

considered a "requested instruction" and must be numbered in a

consecutive pattern.

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- 4 - EXHIBIT TO ORDER

INSTRUCTIONS FOR E-MAILING JURY INSTRUCTIONS DIRECTLY TO CHAMBERS

E-MAILBOX:

Counsel shall e-mail (the subject line of the e-mail shall

contained the case number and case name) directly to the Chambers

e-mailbox (Rosenblatt_Chambers@azd.uscourts.gov) a “CLEAN COPY” of all modified/requested jury instructions, NO LATER THAN THE

DATE INDICATED IN THE TRIAL ORDER, in accordance with the

following instructions:

Clean Copy of Modified/Requested Jury Instructions:

• The CLEAN COPY shall be:

• In WordPerfect versions 7 or 9, Windows 98, or 2000, or

WordPerfect compatible format. No .pdf documents will

be accepted; 

• In COURIER 12pt. font;

• In NON-CAPITALIZED, DOUBLE SPACED TEXT, with 

FIVE-SPACE TAB INDENTATION; and

• Only ONE instruction per page.

• The CLEAN COPY shall not have any bolding, titles, cites,

instruction numbers, pagination, letterhead markings, or

similar notations signaling which party submitted them.

ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE CALL JUDGE ROSENBLATT'S CHAMBERS

- 602-322-7510.

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