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Parties Involved:
Scott Johnson
Plaintiff
Southport Land and Commercial Company
Defendant

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 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SCOTT JOHNSON, 

CIV. S-13-1553 JAM CKD 

Plaintiff, 

v. STATUS (Pre-trial 

 Scheduling) ORDER 

SOUTHPORT LAND AND 

COMMERCIAL COMPANY, 

Defendant. 

 / 

After review of the Joint Status Report, the court makes the following order: 

 SERVICE OF PROCESS 

All parties defendant to this lawsuit have been served and no further service will be 

permitted except with leave of court, good cause having been shown. 

 

 JOINDER OF ADDITIONAL PARTIES/AMENDMENTS 

No further joinder of parties or amendments to pleadings is permitted except with 

leave of court, good cause having been shown. 

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 JURISDICTION AND VENUE 

Jurisdiction and venue are not contested. 

FICTITIOUSLY-NAMED DEFENDANTS 

This action, including any counterclaims, cross-claims, and third party complaints is 

hereby DISMISSED as to all DOE or other fictitiously-named defendants. 

 MOTION HEARINGS SCHEDULES 

All dispositive motions shall be filed by December 17, 2014. Hearing on such 

motions shall be on January 14, 2015 at 9:30 a.m 

The parties are reminded of the notice requirements as outlined in Local Rule 

230(b).

The time deadline for dispositive motions does not apply to motions for 

continuances, temporary restraining orders or other emergency applications. 

 All purely legal issues are to be resolved by timely pre-trial motions. The parties 

are reminded that motions in limine are procedural devices designed to address the 

admissibility of evidence and are cautioned that the court will look with disfavor upon 

substantive motions presented at the final pre-trial conference or at trial in the guise of 

motions in limine. The parties are further cautioned that if any legal issue which should 

have been tendered to the court by proper pre-trial motion requires resolution by the court 

after the established law and motion cut-off date, substantial sanctions may be assessed 

for the failure to file the appropriate pre-trial motion. 

Unless prior permission has been granted, memoranda of law in support of 

and in opposition to motions are limited to twenty-five (25) pages, and reply 

memoranda are limited to ten (10) pages. The parties are also cautioned against 

filing multiple briefs to circumvent this rule.

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 DISCOVERY 

 All discovery shall be completed by October 27, 2014. In this context, 

"completed" means that all discovery shall have been conducted so that all depositions 

have been taken and any disputes relative to discovery shall have been resolved by 

appropriate order if necessary and, where discovery has been ordered, the order has 

been complied with. 

 DISCLOSURE OF EXPERT WITNESSES 

The parties shall make expert witness disclosures under Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(a)(2) by 

August 29, 2014. Supplemental disclosure and disclosure of any rebuttal experts under 

Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(a)(2)(c) shall be made by September 12, 2014. 

Failure of a party to comply with the disclosure schedule as set forth above in all 

likelihood will preclude that party from calling the expert witness at the time of trial absent 

a showing that the necessity for the witness could not have been reasonably anticipated at 

the time the disclosures were ordered and that the failure to make timely disclosure did not 

prejudice any other party. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 37(c). 

All experts designated are to be fully prepared at the time of designation to render 

an informed opinion, and give their reasons therefore, so that they will be able to give full 

and complete testimony at any deposition taken by the opposing parties. Experts will not 

be permitted to testify at the trial as to any information gathered or evaluated, or opinion 

formed, after deposition taken subsequent to designation. 

JOINT MID-LITIGATION STATEMENTS 

Not later than fourteen (14) days prior to the close of discovery, the parties shall file 

with the court a brief joint statement summarizing all law and motion practice heard by the 

court as of the date of the filing of the statement, whether the court has disposed of the 

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motion at the time the statement is filed and served, and the likelihood that any further 

motions will be noticed prior to the close of law and motion. The filing of this statement 

shall not relieve the parties or counsel of their obligation to timely notice all appropriate 

motions as set forth above. 

 FINAL PRE-TRIAL CONFERENCE 

The final pre-trial conference is set for February 20, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. In each 

instance an attorney who will try the case for a given party shall attend the final pretrial 

conference on behalf of that party; provided, however, that if by reason of illness or other 

unavoidable circumstance the trial attorney is unable to attend, the attorney who attends in 

place of the trial attorney shall have equal familiarity with the case and equal authorization 

to make commitments on behalf of the client. All pro se parties must attend the pre-trial 

conference. 

Counsel for all parties and all pro se parties are to be fully prepared for trial at the 

time of the pre-trial conference, with no matters remaining to be accomplished except 

production of witnesses for oral testimony. The parties shall file with the court, no later 

than seven days prior to the final pre-trial conference, a joint pre-trial statement. 

Also at the time of filing the Joint Pretrial Statement, counsel 

are requested to e-mail the Joint Pretrial Statement in WPD or 

Word format to Judge Mendez's assistant, Jane Klingelhoets 

at: jklingelhoets.uscourts.gov.

 Where the parties are unable to agree as to what legal or factual issues are properly 

before the court for trial, they should nevertheless list all issues asserted by any of the 

parties and indicate by appropriate footnotes the disputes concerning such issues. The 

provisions of Local Rule 281 shall, however, apply with respect to the matters to be 

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included in the joint pre-trial statement. Failure to comply with Local Rule 281, as 

modified herein, may be grounds for sanctions. 

The parties are reminded that pursuant to Local Rule 281(b)(10) and (11) they are 

required to list in the final pre-trial statement all witnesses and exhibits they propose to 

offer at trial, no matter for what purpose. These lists shall not be contained in the body of 

the final pre-trial statement itself, but shall be attached as separate documents so that the 

court may attach them as an addendum to the final pre-trial order. The final pre-trial order 

will contain a stringent standard for the offering at trial of witnesses and exhibits not listed 

in the final pre-trial order, and the parties are cautioned that the standard will be strictly 

applied. On the other hand, the listing of exhibits or witnesses that a party does not 

intend to offer will be viewed as an abuse of the court's processes. 

The parties are also reminded that pursuant to Rule 16, Fed. R. Civ. P., it will be 

their duty at the final pre-trial conference to aid the court in: (a) formulation and 

simplification of issues and the elimination of frivolous claims or defenses; (b) settling of 

facts which should properly be admitted; and (c) the avoidance of unnecessary proof and 

cumulative evidence. Counsel must cooperatively prepare the joint pre-trial statement 

and participate in good faith at the final pre-trial conference with these aims in mind. A 

failure to do so may result in the imposition of sanctions which may include monetary 

sanctions, orders precluding proof, elimination of claims or defenses, or such other 

sanctions as the court deems appropriate. 

 TRIAL SETTING 

Jury trial in this matter is set for April 6, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. The parties estimate a 

trial length of approximately 3 to 5 days. 

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 SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE 

No Settlement Conference is currently scheduled. If the parties wish to have a 

settlement conference, one will be scheduled at the final pretrial conference or at an 

earlier time upon request of the parties. 

 OBJECTIONS TO STATUS (PRETRIAL SCHEDULING) ORDER 

This Status Order will become final without further Order of Court unless objection 

is lodged within seven (7) days of the date of the filing of this Order. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: January 6, 2014 

 /s/ John A. Mendez 

 JOHN A. MENDEZ 

 United States District Court Judge 

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