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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS

AUSTIN DIVISION

DEAN CHASE

 Plaintiff,

v. 

RYAN E. HODGE and HELPING 

HANDS CAPITAL, LLC

 Defendants.

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Civil Action No. 1:20-CV-175-DH

SUPPLEMENTAL SCHEDULING ORDER

Pursuant to Rule 16, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the following Supplemental 

Scheduling Order is issued by the Court. To the extent this Amended Scheduling Order does not 

with conflict with prior Scheduling Order, all prior deadlines remain in effect. 

1. All discovery ordered or agreed to be produced pursuant to the Order of the undersigned 

dated September 1, 2022, is ORDERED produced on or before September 9, 2022. 

2. Defendant Hodge is ORDERED to make himself available for deposition on or before 

October 7, 2022.

3. Plaintiff Chase shall FILE his designation of testifying experts and serve on all parties, 

but not file, the materials required by Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(a)(2)(B) on or before October 28, 2022. 

4. Defendants Hodge and Helping Hands Capital, LLC shall FILE their designation of 

testifying experts and serve on all parties, but not file, the materials required by Fed. R. Civ. P. 

26(a)(2)(B) on or before November 18, 2022. 

5. All expert depositions, including rebuttal experts, shall be COMPLETED on or before 

December 9, 2022. 

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5. An objection to the reliability of an expert’s proposed testimony under Federal Rule of 

Evidence 702 shall be made by motion, specifically stating the basis for the objection and 

identifying the objectionable testimony by January 6, 2023. The parties may agree among 

themselves to move the deadlines outlined above, but the Court will not move the motion (or 

response) deadline, except on a motion for leave demonstrating extenuating circumstances. 

6. This case is set for pretrial conference on Monday, February 27, 2023, at 10:00 a.m.; 

jury selection on Friday, March 3, 2022, at 9:00 a.m.; and jury trial on Monday, March 6, 2022, 

at 9:00 a.m.

7. The parties should consult Local Rule CV-16(e) regarding matters to be filed in advance 

of trial. The parties, however, are exempted from that portion of Local Rule CV-16 requiring that 

three days prior to trial they file “a list disclosing any objections, together with the grounds 

therefore, that may be made to the admissibility of any exhibits.” In lieu of that requirement, the 

Court ORDERS that, after receiving the final exhibit list, the parties confer with each other to 

discuss, and resolve if possible, any objections they may have to each other’s exhibits. The Court 

further ORDERS that the parties be prepared to inform the Court at the final pretrial conference 

of the exhibits to which there is no objection and the exhibits to which objections remain for 

resolution by the Court. The Court will determine at the final pretrial conference whether to address 

at that time any evidentiary issues which may remain, or to reserve those matters for the trial.

SIGNED September 1, 2022.

DUSTIN M. HOWELL

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATGE JUDGE

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