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Parties Involved:
International Business Machines Corporation
Defendant
Yakov Reznik
Plaintiff

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

YAKOV REZNIK,

Plaintiff,

v.

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS 

MACHINES CORPORATION,

Defendant.

Case No. 15-cv-02419-YGR 

SCHEDULING AND PRETRIAL 

ORDER

TO ALL PARTIES AND COUNSEL OF RECORD: 

Having considered the parties’ jointly proposed case schedule (Dkt. No. 39), the Court 

hereby SETS the following trial and pretrial dates:

PRETRIAL SCHEDULE

Deadline for Parties’ Disclosures November 23, 2015

Briefing Schedule for Defendant’s Motion for 

Summary Judgment on Plaintiff’s Individual 

Claims

Filed on: November 3, 2015

Opposition: January 26, 2016

Reply: February 9, 2016

Hearing on Defendant’s Motion for Summary 

Judgment on Plaintiff’s Individual Claims

March 1, 2016, at 2:00 p.m.

Private Mediation Deadline April 15, 2016

Close of Non-Expert Discovery June 3, 2016

Expert Designations Opening: June 10, 2016

Rebuttal: July 8, 2016

Expert Depositions on or before: August 5, 

2016

Briefing Schedule on Class Certification To be filed on: August 12, 2016

Opposition: September 2, 2016

Reply: September 16, 2016

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Briefing Schedule for Summary Judgment Motions 

on Class Claims

To be filed on: August 12, 2016

Opposition: September 2, 2016

Reply: September 16, 2016

Hearing on (1) Class Certification and (2) Summary 

Judgment on Class Claims

September 30, 2016

Compliance Hearing (See Below) December 16, 2016

Joint Pretrial Conference Statement December 20, 2016

Pre-Trial Conference January 13, 2017, at 9:00 a.m.

Trial Date February 6, 2017 at 8:30 a.m. for a jury trial

Pursuant to the Court’s Pretrial Instructions in Civil Cases at Section 2, trial counsel shall 

meet and confer at least twenty-one (21) days in advance of the Pretrial Conference. The 

compliance hearing on Friday, December 16, 2016, at 9:01 a.m. is intended to confirm that 

counsel have reviewed the Court’s Pretrial Setting Instructions and are in compliance therewith. 

The compliance hearing shall be held in the Federal Courthouse, 1301 Clay Street, Oakland, 

California, in Courtroom 1. Five (5) business days prior to the date of the compliance hearing, the 

parties shall file a one-page joint statement confirming they have complied with this requirement 

or explaining their failure to comply. If compliance is complete, the parties need not appear and 

the compliance hearing will be taken off calendar. Telephonic appearances will be allowed if the 

parties have submitted a joint statement in a timely fashion. Failure to do so may result in 

sanctions.

Pursuant to the parties’ stipulation (Dkt. No. 23), the parties are REFERRED to private 

mediation to be completed by April 15, 2016. The parties shall provide the Court with the name 

of an agreed-upon mediator by December 4, 2015, by filing a joint statement. A compliance 

hearing regarding the same shall be held on Friday, December 11, 2015 on the Court’s 9:01 a.m. 

calendar, in the Federal Courthouse, 1301 Clay Street, Oakland, California, in Courtroom 1. If 

compliance is complete, the parties need not appear and the compliance hearing will be taken off 

calendar. 

The parties must comply with both the Court’s Standing Order in Civil Cases and Standing 

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Order for Pretrial Instructions in Civil Cases for additional deadlines and procedures. All 

Standing Orders are available on the Court’s website at http://www.cand.uscourts.gov/ygrorders.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: November 19, 2015

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YVONNE GONZALEZ ROGERS

United States District Judge

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