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Parties Involved:
Plantronics, Inc.
Plaintiff
Target Corporation
Defendant

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

PLANTRONICS, INC.,

Plaintiff(s), No. C 05-05232 PJH 

v. CASE MANAGEMENT

AND PRETRIAL ORDER

 TARGET CORPORATION,

Defendant(s).

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

parties except as modified by the following: 

PRETRIAL SCHEDULE

TRIAL DATE: Monday, February 5, 2007, at 8:30 a.m., Courtroom 3, 17th Fl.

JURY [x] COURT []

TRIAL LENGTH: No more than 5 days.

PRETRIAL CONFERENCE DATE: January 11, 2007, at 2:30 p.m.

DISPOSITIVE MOTIONS (Only one summary judgment motion per party is permitted without

leave of court) TO BE HEARD BY: October 18, 2006.

NON-EXPERT DISCOVERY CUTOFF: .

DISCLOSURE OF EXPERTS (retained and non-retained) : .

EXPERT DISCOVERY CUTOFF: .

DISCOVERY LIMITATIONS: 

Interrogatories: Requests for Documents:

Depositions: Requests for Admissions: 

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.

[x] SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE with Magistrate Judge Spero within 30 days, or as soon

thereafter as is convenient for the assigned judge.

[] REFERRED TO ADR FOR to be completed .

[] Certification of interested entities or persons (L.R. 3-16) to be filed in 10 days.

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. 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. The failure of a party

to file an opposition to any motion shall constitute a consent to the granting of the motion.

5. 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.

6. 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 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, on a 35-day briefing schedule.

7. Briefing schedules for motions that are specifically set by the court may not be

altered by stipulation; rather the parties must obtain leave of court.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

B. FINAL PRETRIAL CONFERENCE

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

2. Not less than forty (40) calendar 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 thirty (30) calendar days prior to the pretrial conference, counsel

and/or parties shall:

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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 disclosures required by Fed. R.

Civ. P. 26(a)(3) as well as the following:

(I) A brief description of the substance of the claims and defenses

which remain to be decided.

(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 motions in limine, which shall be contained in one

document and shall not 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;

g. Exchange exhibits which shall be premarked, 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);

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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

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 fifteen (15) calendar days prior to the pretrial conference, counsel

and/or parties shall serve and file any opposition to a motion in limine. 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.

C. JURY TRIAL

Jury Selection shall proceed as follows: The Jury Commissioner will summon 20 t0 25

prospective jurors. The Courtroom Deputy will select their names at random and 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 and passed between counsel. 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 (2001 Edition) shall be given absent objection: 1.1 - 1.14, 2.1 - 2.2, 3.1 - 3.3. 3.5 - 3.7, 

4.1 - 4.4. Counsel shall submit a joint set of case specific instructions using the Ninth Circuit

Manual where appropriate. Do not submit duplicates of those instructions listed above. 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.

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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.

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 three 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: 4/10/06 ______________________________

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:

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5. Your place of birth: 

6. Your marital status: (circle one)

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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12. Please describe your education background:

Highest grade completed: 

College and/or vocational schools you have attended:

Major areas of study: 

13. Have you served in the military? _________________________________

14. Have you ever had jury experience? No. of times? 

If yes: State/County Court Federal Court 

When? 

Was it a civil or criminal case? 

Did any of the juries reach a verdict? 

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