Stevenson v. Capps, 3:19-cv-208-DPM. (2019)
Court: District Court, E.D. Arkansas
Number: infdco20190925775
Visitors: 12
Filed: Sep. 20, 2019
Latest Update: Sep. 20, 2019
Summary: ORDER D.P. MARSHALL, JR. , District Judge . Initial Scheduling Order, N o 6, amended. Please consider the attached revised Draft Final Scheduling Order. Rule 26(f) report due by 30 September 2019. So Ordered. IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS JONESBORO DIVISION MARY CAGE TARVER STEVENSON, as PLAINTIFFS Trustee of the James E. Stevenson Family Trust; JAMES E. STEVENSON III, and SHARYN STEVENSON v. 3:19-cv-208-DPM
Summary: ORDER D.P. MARSHALL, JR. , District Judge . Initial Scheduling Order, N o 6, amended. Please consider the attached revised Draft Final Scheduling Order. Rule 26(f) report due by 30 September 2019. So Ordered. IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS JONESBORO DIVISION MARY CAGE TARVER STEVENSON, as PLAINTIFFS Trustee of the James E. Stevenson Family Trust; JAMES E. STEVENSON III, and SHARYN STEVENSON v. 3:19-cv-208-DPM ..
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ORDER
D.P. MARSHALL, JR., District Judge.
Initial Scheduling Order, No 6, amended. Please consider the attached revised Draft Final Scheduling Order. Rule 26(f) report due by 30 September 2019.
So Ordered.
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS JONESBORO DIVISION
MARY CAGE TARVER STEVENSON, as PLAINTIFFS
Trustee of the James E. Stevenson Family
Trust; JAMES E. STEVENSON III, and
SHARYN STEVENSON
v. 3:19-cv-208-DPM
RONALD CAPPS JR, and all persons
claiming an interest in real property
described herein, located in the Chickasawba
District of Mississippi County, Arkansas DEFENDANT
DRAFT FINAL SCHEDULING ORDER
Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 16(b), the Court orders:
• Deadline to request any pleading amendment ................................. 20 November 2019
• Joint status report due ..................... 20 December 2019
• Plaintiffs shall identify all expert witnesses and produce their opinions by ................................... 21 January 2020
• Defendants shall identify all expert witnesses and produce their opinions by .................................. 21 February 2020
• Plaintiff shall identify any rebuttal expert witnesses and produce their opinions by ...................................... 6 March 2020
• Discovery cutoff ................................ 7 April 2020
• Dispositive and Daubert motions due1 ............... 7 May 2020
• Joint status report, including settlement conference request, due ....................... 7 May 2020
• Deposition designations exchanged2 ............... 8 June 2020
• Motions in limine due ........................... 10 July 2020
• Local Rule 26.2 pre-trial disclosure sheets due ................................. 7 August 2020
• Joint report on deposition designation disputes (if any) ..................................... 7 August 2020
• Trial briefs due ............................... 7 August 2020
• Jury Instructions (agreed or disputed) due ..... 7 August 2020
• Jury Trial, Jonesboro Courtroom 324 ........ 14 September 2020
• Amending Pleadings. Local Rule 5.5(e) requires a party to attach the proposed amended pleading to the motion. Please make this attachment a redline or comparison copy showing all proposed changes. Counsel should confer about proposed amendments. State in your motion to amend whether the change is agreed or opposed.
• Protective Orders. Before filing a motion for approval, counsel should email a draft order in WordPerfect or Word to chambers for review. Alert the law clerk on the case to the draft's submission. Avoid legalese. Short, plain orders are better than long, complicated ones. Incorporate Fed. R. Civ. P. 5.2's mandate for redaction if practicable before any filing under seal. The order should remain in effect no longer than one year after litigation ends, not in perpetuity. Incorporate the procedure for discovery disputes, see infra, to cover disputes about whether a document is confidential.
• Discovery Disputes. Counsel should confer in good faith in person before bringing any discovery dispute to the Court. Do not file motions to compel. Do not file a motion to quash or for protective order unless there is an emergency. If the parties reach a discovery impasse, they should file a joint report explaining the disagreement. File this paper under the CM/ECF event called "Joint Report of Discovery Dispute". Your joint report must not exceed ten pages, excluding the style and signature block. Each side gets five pages. Do not file a motion asking for more pages. Use double spacing and avoid footnotes. Attach documents (such as disputed written discovery or responses) as needed. Redact any attachments as required by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 5.2 to protect confidential information. File the joint report sufficiently before the discovery cutoff so that the dispute can be resolved, and any additional discovery completed, without undermining other pretrial deadlines. The Court will rule or schedule a hearing. Alert the law clerk on the case to the joint report's filing. If a dispute arises during a deposition, call chambers so the Judge can rule during the deposition.
• Summary Judgment. Motions must comply with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56 and Local Rules 7.2 and 56.1. Make the complete condensed transcript of any deposition cited an exhibit. Limit your Rule 56.1 statements to material facts. Include a specific supporting record citation for each fact asserted. Responding statements of fact must repeat the statement being responded to—like a discovery response. Include a specific supporting record citation for each fact disputed or asserted in the responding statement. A party's substantial failure to follow these procedures will result in the party having to correct its filing. If the summary judgment papers are voluminous, the Court would appreciate the parties sending a courtesy paper copy to chambers. Any movant may reply within seven calendar days of a response to a motion for summary judgment.
• Deposition Designations. The Court strongly encourages the parties to use live testimony, rather than testimony by deposition, at trial. If the parties nonetheless need to use deposition testimony, then they must use the following procedure. Thirty days before Local Rule 26.2 pre-trial disclosure sheets are due, the parties should exchange deposition designations. As soon as practicable thereafter, counsel must meet and confer in person. They should try hard to agree on what deposition testimony will be presented at trial and resolve any objections. If any dispute or objection remains unresolved, then the parties should file a joint report explaining the dispute on the same date pre-trial disclosure sheets are due. The parties must certify that they met and conferred in person but failed to resolve the disputed issue. The parties should also deliver to chambers a paper copy of the entire transcript of any deposition involved in any dispute.
• Jury Instructions. The Court will use its own introductory and general instructions. The parties should submit proposed instructions only on elements and anything unusual and proposed verdict forms. The Court strongly encourages the parties to confer and agree on these instructions and forms. The parties should also submit an agreed proposed statement of the case. Note authority on the bottom of each proposed instruction. Please explain the reason for any disputed instructions in your submission. Send agreed and disputed instructions in WordPerfect or Word to dpmchambers@ared.uscourts.gov. Alert the law clerk on the case that you have submitted the instructions.
• Exhibits. The Court strongly encourages the parties to agree on as many of the exhibits as possible. Deliver the original exhibits, and one copy, in three-ring binders to the Courtroom Deputy on the Wednesday before the trial starts. Please also include an electronic copy, plus (on the Court's forms) the exhibit and witness lists.
• Pre-Trial Hearing. It will be set by a separate notice. We will address motions in limine, deposition excerpts for use at trial, jury instructions, trial architecture, exhibits, and voir dire.
• Conflicts Of Interest. Counsel must check the Court's recusal list on file in the U.S. District Clerk's Office to determine whether there is any conflict that might require recusal. If any party is a subsidiary or affiliate of any company in which the Court has a financial interest, counsel should bring that fact to the Court's attention immediately.
Please communicate with Sherri Black, Courtroom Deputy, by e-mail at sherri_black@ared.uscourts.gov to check your position on the calendar as the trial date approaches. In the event of settlement, advise Sherri Black immediately.
AT THE DIRECTION OF THE COURT
JAMES W. McCORMACK, CLERK
By: Sherri Black
Courtroom Deputy to
Judge D. P. Marshall Jr.
20 September 2019
FootNotes
1. Note and follow the procedure specified infra.
2. Note and follow the procedure specified infra.
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