ORDER EXTENDING DEADLINES – PAGE 1 

Case No. 3:22-cv-00688; John Montesanti v. Nationstar Mortgage d/b/a Mr. Cooper

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS

DALLAS DIVISION

JOHN MONTESANTI

Plaintiff

v.

NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC d/b/a 

MR. COOPER

Defendant 

Case No. 3:22-cv-00688

ORDER EXTENDING DEADLINES

The Agreed Motion to Extend Deadlines is hereby GRANTED as set forth 

hereinbelow. It is therefore ORDERED:

Jury Trial Date Two Week Docket Beginning 

August 20, 2023 at 9:00am

Pretrial Conference August 13, 2023

Deadline to finalize discovery May 29, 2023

Deadline to Mediate June 12, 2023

Deadline to Designate Expert Witnesses 

(including rebuttal experts)

April 19, 2023

May 19, 2023

Counsel shall confer and file a joint report 

setting forth the status of settlement

negotiations

June 19, 2023

All motions for summary judgment shall be 

filed by 

June 26, 2023

All challenges to experts—including 

motions to strike or exclude expert

witnesses—shall be filed

June 26, 2023

Counsel shall file a Joint Pretrial Order 

containing the information required by 

Local Rule 16.4 plus the following:

a. A list of witnesses who may be called by

each party in its case in chief. Each such

witness list shall contain a narrative

summary of the testimony to be elicited

from each witness, shall state whether the

witness has been deposed, and whether the

witness’s testimony at trial is “probable,”

“possible,” “expert,” or “record custodian.” A

August 3, 2023

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copy of this list must be furnished to the 

court reporter prior to trial;

b. A joint proposed jury charge. The

parties must submit the proposed charge to

the Court in Word format. The parties

must annotate the joint proposed charge,

explaining any objections and including

citations to pattern jury instructions or

caselaw.

c. Proposed interrogatories

d. The status of settlement negotiations as

of the date of the Pretrial Order;

e. Each party’s proposed voir dire questions

if the matter is a jury trial. The Court will

allow attorneys an allotted time to conduct

questioning at voir dire so long as the

questions are approved in advance by the

Court. The Court reserves the right to

conduct further questioning at the

conclusion of attorney questioning; and

f. Trial briefs may be filed with the Pretrial

Order but are not required unless

specifically requested by the Court.

Regarding exhibit lists, exhibits, witness 

lists, and deposition designations, the 

parties shall comply with Local Rule 26.2. 

This includes providing copies of your trial 

exhibits to the Court on a USB flash drive 

or by email at 

Starr_Orders@txnd.uscourts.gov

Deposition designations should be made 

for only those witnesses who qualify as 

“unavailable” for trial under Federal Rule 

of Civil Procedure 32(a)(4). The parties 

should brief the Court on why a given 

witness counts as unavailable under Rule 

32. Deposition

designations should not be made for

witnesses who will testify live.

August 3, 2023

Motions in Limine August 3, 2023

Responses to Motion in Limine August 6, 2023

Deadline to file Objections to witnesses 

(except expert witnesses), exhibits, and 

deposition designations. Counsel must 

confer about exhibits and make reasonable 

efforts to agree upon admissibility.

August 6, 2023

Deadline to file Objections to the 

interrogatories.

August 6, 2023

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The parties must confer and file, by a joint 

status report on pretrial objections to 

exhibits, witnesses (except expert 

witnesses),

and deposition designations.

August 6, 2023 at 5:00 PM

Dated: January 18, 2023

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