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CLARK v. NOR-LEA HOSPITAL DISTRICT, CIV-15-1055 CG/LAM. (2016)

Court: District Court, D. New Mexico Number: infdco20160502c51 Visitors: 18
Filed: Apr. 29, 2016
Latest Update: Apr. 29, 2016
Summary: ORDER ADOPTING JOINT STATUS REPORT AND PROVISIONAL DISCOVERY PLAN WITH CHANGES AND SETTING CASE MANAGEMENT DEADLINES LOURDES A. MART NEZ , Magistrate Judge . THIS MATTER came before the Court on a telephonic Rule 16 Initial Scheduling Conference held on April 28, 2016. Following a review of the parties' Joint Status Report and Provisional Discovery Plan filed on April 13, 2016, and after conferring with counsel, the Court adopts the Joint Status Report and Provisional Discovery Plan modif
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ORDER ADOPTING JOINT STATUS REPORT AND PROVISIONAL DISCOVERY PLAN WITH CHANGES AND SETTING CASE MANAGEMENT DEADLINES

THIS MATTER came before the Court on a telephonic Rule 16 Initial Scheduling Conference held on April 28, 2016. Following a review of the parties' Joint Status Report and Provisional Discovery Plan filed on April 13, 2016, and after conferring with counsel, the Court adopts the Joint Status Report and Provisional Discovery Plan modified as follows:

a) Maximum of twenty-five (25) Interrogatories, including all discrete subparts, by each party to any other party (responses due 30 days after service); b) Maximum of twenty-five (25) Requests for Admission by each party to any other party (responses due 30 days after service); c) Maximum of twenty-five (25) Requests for Production by each party to any other party (responses due 30 days after service); d) Maximum of ten (10) depositions by Plaintiff(s) and ten (10) depositions by Defendant(s); and e) Depositions of named parties and experts are limited to 7 hours, unless extended by agreement of the parties; depositions other than of named parties and experts are limited to 4 hours unless extended by agreement of the parties.

The following case management deadlines have been set:

a) Deadline for Plaintiff(s) to amend pleadings or add additional parties pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 15, which may require opposing party's written consent or leave of Court: May 14, 2016 b) Deadline for Defendant(s) to amend pleadings or add additional parties pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 15, which may require opposing party's written consent or leave of Court: June 14, 2016 c) Plaintiff(s)' Rule 26 (a)(2) expert disclosure:1 July 28, 2016 d) Defendant(s)' Rule 26 (a)(2) expert disclosure:1 August 29, 2016 e) Termination date for discovery: September 28, 2016 f) Motions relating to discovery to be filed by: October 19, 2016 g) Pretrial motions other than discovery motions (including motions which may require a Daubert hearing) filed by: November 9, 2016 h) Pretrial Order: Plaintiff(s) to Defendant(s) by: January 30, 2017 Defendant(s) to Court by: February 13, 2017

Any extension of the case management deadlines must be approved by the Court. Any requests for additional discovery must be submitted to the Court by motion prior to the expiration of the discovery deadline.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

FootNotes


1. All expert witnesses must be disclosed by this date, but only those who are retained or specifically employed to provide expert testimony must submit an expert report. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(a)(2)(B); Musser v. Gentiva Health Servs., 356 F.3d 751 (7th Cir. 2004); Farris v. Intel Corp., 493 F.Supp.2d 1174 (D.N.M. 2007), and Blodgett v. United States, 2008 WL 1944011 (D. Utah). Expert witnesses not required to provide a written report must provide a summary disclosure under Rule 26(a)(2)(C) by this date. The parties must have their expert(s) ready to be deposed at the time they identify them and provide their reports.
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