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Nature of Suit Code: 365
Nature of Suit: Personal Injury - Product Liability
Cause of Action: 28:1446pl Petition for Removal - Product Liability

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JASON T. GUTOWSKI,

Plaintiff,

v.

MCKESSON CORPORATION, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 14-cv-05521-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 December 30, 2016

Fact discovery cut-off September 1, 2016

Expert disclosures July 28, 2017

Expert rebuttal September 1, 2017

Expert discovery cut-off October 27, 2017

Deadline to file dispositive motions November 17, 2017

Pretrial conference statement due January 30, 2018

Pretrial conference February 9, 2018 at 

2:00 p.m.

Trial March 5, 2018 at 

8:30 a.m.

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Event Deadline

Estimate of trial length (in days) Ten

The Court notes that the parties have not yet complied with their ADR obligations pursuant 

to the Northern District’s ADR rules and the Court’s prior scheduling orders. See ECF No. 6. 

The parties have represented to the Court that they believe informal settlement discussions are 

adequate at this early stage of the litigation. To ensure that the parties give proper attention to the 

potential for alternative resolution, the Court now orders that the parties take the following actions 

by August 24, 2016: meet and confer re: early settlement and ADR process selection; file an ADR 

Certification signed by all parties and counsel (form available at cand.uscourts.gov); and file either 

a Stipulation to ADR Process or a Notice of Need for ADR Phone Conference (form available at 

cand.uscourts.gov).

The Court will conduct a further Case Management Conference on September 14, 2016 at 

2:00 p.m. A Joint Case Management Statement is due by September 7, 2016. 

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

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

to grant a continuance. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: February 11, 2016

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JON S. TIGAR

United States District Judge

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