Opinion ID: 2362271
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 10

Heading: pre-trial deadline

Text: 21. The Presiding Judge shall arrange all future trial settings of cases included in these Coordinated Proceedings. Any trial setting established prior to the date of this Order shall remain as previously set. Once such case is set for trial, the following procedures and deadlines shall apply. (a) On or before 100 days prior to trial, the plaintiff is required to narrow and reduce the number of expert witnesses by designating expert witnesses plaintiff reasonably anticipates will actually testify at trial. (b) On or before 100 days prior to trial, the plaintiff is required to designate which witnesses will testify in person and which will testify by deposition; and in the event of testimony by deposition, the plaintiff is required to provide the date and place of the deposition and whether or not the deposition will be by videotape. (c) Each party shall require the party's diagnostic witnesses to have examined all x-rays, medical records, tissue slides, or any other materials which serve as a basis for the witness' testimony and which are known to the party or the party's attorneys at the time of the witness' deposition; and that each such witness be prepared to give his final trial opinion as of the date of taking of his deposition by an opposing party to the extent that he can do so on such information and materials then available. If new or additional information or materials becomes known to a party or a party's attorneys after the date of a witness' deposition, opposing counsel will be immediately notified and will be allowed to depose, or redepose, as the case may be, each such expert with respect to the new information or materials if the new information or materials in any way changes the opinion of the witness. (d) That on or before 100 days prior to trial, the plaintiff is required to designate the specific exhibits that he reasonably anticipates will be offered at trial, including any other such trial exhibits which do not appear on the master list which plaintiffs have heretofore furnished to defendants; and as to each exhibit so designated, state which defendant or defendants the exhibit will be introduced against. (e) Within 55 days after defendants have been served with the plaintiff's designations included in Subparagraphs 21(a) through (d) above, defendants shall designate their state-of-the-art witnesses, diagnostic witnesses, and any treating physicians who they reasonably anticipate will actually testify at trial. Further, the defendants are required to designate which of these witnesses will testify in person and which will testify by deposition; and if any expert witness will testify by deposition, the defendants are required to state the date and place of the deposition and whether the deposition was or will be by videotape. Additionally, within 55 days after the defendants have been served with the plaintiff's exhibit designation of those specific exhibits that he reasonably anticipates will be offered at trial, along with the designation as to which defendant or defendants, such exhibits will be offered against, the defendants shall designate those exhibits that they reasonably anticipate will actually be offered into evidence at trial. (f) The Plaintiff and defendants will be precluded from listing or calling at trial any witness, or offering into evidence at trial any exhibits, not designated in accordance with the requirements of Subparagraphs (a) through (e) above. Upon a showing of good cause, a party may request the Court in the interest of justice to be allowed to list and call a witness, or offer an exhibit, not designated as required hereinabove. (g) All other motions by any party (including motions for summary judgment), except motions relating to the admissibility of evidence at trial, must be filed and served no later than 60 days prior to trial; responses in opposition to such motions must be filed and served within 20 days of the filing and service of the motions; and the Court will rule all such motions as soon as possible after responses are due. Motions relating to the admissibility of evidence at trial shall be governed by the applicable provisions of the Local Rules.