IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA

RAMONA ERAZO : CIVIL ACTION

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: No. 02-CV-4438

v. :

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TRANS UNION, LLC, ET AL. :

SCHEDULING ORDER

AND NOW, this 21st day of November, 2002, following a preliminary pretrial

conference, it is ORDERED as follows:

1. All motions to amend the complaint and to join or add additional parties shall

be filed within thirty (30) days of the date of this Order.

2. All fact discovery shall be served, noticed and completed by March 20, 2003.

3. Counsel for each party shall serve upon counsel for every other party the

information referred to in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(a)(2)(B) by expert report,

deposition or answer to expert interrogatory no later than thirty (30) days before the date

for completion of discovery. If the evidence is intended solely to contradict or rebut

evidence on the same subject matter identified by another party, counsel shall serve the

information on counsel for every other party no later than fifteen (15) days before the date

for completion of discovery.

4. Any party expecting to offer opinion testimony from lay witnesses pursuant

to Federal Rule of Evidence 701 with respect to the issues of liability and damages shall,

at the time required for submission of information and/or reports for expert witnesses on

liability and damages set forth in the preceding paragraph, serve opposing parties with

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details and/or documents covering the lay opinions of the Rule 701 witnesses.

5. All motions for summary judgment shall be filed no later than March 27,

2003, responses to any such motions shall be filed within the time permitted under Local

Rule 7.1(c). Motions for summary judgment and responses shall be filed in the form

prescribed in the Court’s Notice to Counsel and Judge Savage’s Scheduling and Motion

Policies and Procedures.

(a) The movant shall file, in support of the motion for summary judgment,

a Statement of Undisputed Facts which sets forth, in numbered paragraphs, all material

facts which the movant contends are undisputed;

(b) The respondent shall file, in opposition to the motion for summary

judgment, a separate Statement of Disputed Facts, responding to the numbered

paragraphs set forth in the movant’s Statement of Undisputed Facts, which the respondent

contend present a genuine issue to be tried. The respondent also shall set forth, in

separate numbered paragraphs, any additional facts which the respondent contends

preclude summary judgment.

(c) All material facts set forth in the Statement of Undisputed Facts

required to be served by the movant shall be taken by the Court as admitted unless

controverted by the opposing party.

(d) Statements of material facts in support of or in opposition to a motion

for summary judgment shall include specific and not general references to the parts of the

record which support each of the statements. Each stated fact and each statement that a

material fact is disputed shall cite the source relied upon, including the title, page and line

of the document supporting the statement.

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6. No brief or memorandum filed in support of or in opposition to any motion

shall exceed 25 pages in length without prior leave of court.

7. Counsel for the parties are directed to contact Magistrate Judge M. Faith

Angell’s chambers on or before January 17, 2003, to schedule a settlement conference.

8. On or before April 3, 2003, counsel for each party shall serve upon counsel

for every other party:

(a) the original or a copy of each exhibit they expect to offer at trial in

furtherance of their respective contentions. Each party shall mark its trial exhibits in

advance of trial with consecutive numbers appropriately prefixed with an identifying letter

of counsel's choice; 

(b) curriculum vitae for each expert witness expected to testify; and 

(c) a specific identification of each discovery item expected to be offered into

evidence. 

9. All parties shall prepare and file with the Clerk of Court their pretrial

memoranda in accordance with this Order and Local Rule of Civil Procedure 16.1(c), as

follows:

Plaintiff - on or before April 3, 2003.

Defendant - on or before April 9, 2003. 

 In addition to compliance with Local Rule of Civil Procedure 16.1(c), the

parties shall include in or attach to their pretrial memoranda the following:

 (a) A listing of the identity of each expert witness to be called at trial by the

party;

 (b) a curriculum vitae for each expert witness listed;

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(c) a listing of each fact witness to be called at trial with a brief statement of

the nature of their expected testimony (witnesses not listed may not be called by that party

in its case-in-chief);

(d) an itemized statement of claimant's damages or other relief sought;

(e) a statement of any anticipated important legal issues on which the Court

will be required to rule, together with counsel's single best authority on each such issue.

 The pretrial memoranda shall be filed with the Clerk of the Court and two (2)

copies shall be delivered to the Court.

10. All motions in limine shall be filed no later than ten (10) business days before

the final pretrial conference. Responses, if any, shall be filed five (5) days after service of

the motions in limine.

11. A final pretrial conference will be held on April 9, 2003 at 4:00 p.m. in

Chambers (Room 4006). 

12. The parties shall file proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law with the

Clerk of the Court not later than seven (7) business days before the trial date. Two (2)

copies of the proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law shall be sent to the Court

at Chambers. Counsel are requested to provide the Court at Chambers a computer

diskette in WordPerfect 9.0 for Windows format. 

13. No later than three (3) business days before the case appears in the trial

pool, the parties shall file a complete and comprehensive stipulation of uncontested facts

pursuant to Local Rule of Civil Procedure 16.1(d)(2)(b)(2). The original shall be filed with

the Clerk of the Court, and two (2) copies shall be submitted to the Court at Chambers.

14. At the commencement of trial, the parties shall provide the Court with three

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(3) copies of a schedule of exhibits which shall briefly describe each exhibit. At the trial,

the parties shall provide the Court with two (2) copies of each exhibit. Exhibits shall be

arranged and tabbed in a ring binder.

15. This case will be listed in the Court’s trial pool for April 14, 2003 in

Courtroom 15B. This Scheduling Order is the only written notice counsel will receive of

the date this case will be tried. Counsel and all parties shall be prepared to commence trial

on that date and as soon thereafter as counsel receive telephone notice that trial is to

commence. Counsel should have the responsibility to maintain contact with the deputy

clerk once the case goes into the pool. Every effort will be made to give counsel at least

24 hours notice and hopefully 48 hours notice of commencement of trial. Pool cases are

to be ready for trial as of the date they are placed in the pool and are frequently not called

in the order in which they appear.

16. Any party having an objection to: (a) the admissibility of any exhibit based on

authenticity; (b) the adequacy of the qualifications of an expert witness expected to testify;

(c) the admissibility for any reason other than relevancy of any item of evidence expected

to be offered, or (d) the admissibility of any opinion testimony from lay witnesses pursuant

to Federal Rule of Evidence 701 shall set forth separately each such objection, clearly and

concisely, in their pretrial memorandum. Such objection shall describe with particularity

the ground and the authority for the objection. The Court can be expected to overrule any

objection offered at trial in respect to any matter covered by this paragraph if the Court

concludes that the objection should have been made as required by this Order.

17. Only those exhibits, discovery items and expert witnesses identified in the

manner set forth in this Order shall be considered by the Court for admission into evidence

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at trial, unless stipulated to by all affected parties and approved by the Court, or by Order

of Court so as to avoid manifest injustice.

18. Because a witness may be unavailable at the time of trial in the manner

defined in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 32(a)(3), the Court expects use of oral or

videotape depositions at trial of any witness whose testimony a party believes essential to

the presentation of that party's case, whether that witness is a party, a non-party or an

expert. The unavailability of any such witness will not be a ground to delay the

commencement or progress of an ongoing trial. In the event a deposition is to be offered,

the offering party shall file with the Court, three business days prior to the commencement

of the trial, a copy of the deposition, but only after all efforts have been made to resolve

objections with other counsel. Unresolved objections shall be noted in the margin of the

deposition page(s) where a Court ruling is necessary.

 

 TIMOTHY J. SAVAGE, J.

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