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affiliate, and/or insider of the named non-individual
parties, and identify their interests).
These representations are made to enable
judges of the court to evaluate possible recusal.
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(b) If there are no known interested parties other than those participating in the case, a statement to that effect will satisfy this rule.
(c) There is a continuing obligation to supplement in accordance with the provisions of this rule.
LR 15-1. AMENDED PLEADINGS.
(a) The original proposed amended pleading shall be signed and attached to any motion to amend a pleading. If the motion is granted the clerk shall forthwith detach and file the original amended pleading. Unless otherwise permitted by the court, every proposed amended pleading must be retyped or reprinted so that it will be complete in itself, including exhibits, without reference to the superseded pleading. An amended pleading shall include copies of all exhibits referred to in such pleading.
(b) Upon order of the court, the clerk shall remove any exhibits attached to prior pleadings and attach them to the amended pleading. The time under Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a) for an entity already a party to answer or reply to an amended pleading shall run from the date of service of the order allowing said pleading to be amended, or where no order is required under Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a), from the date of service of the amended pleading.
LR 16-1. SCHEDULING AND CASE MANAGEMENT; TIME AND ISSUANCE OF SCHEDULING ORDER.
(a) In cases where a discovery plan is required, the court shall approve, disapprove or modify the discovery plan and enter the scheduling order within thirty (30) days from the date the discovery plan is submitted.
(b) In actions by or on behalf of inmates under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 or the principles of Bivens v Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971), and in forfeiture and condemnation actions, no discovery plan is required. In such cases, a scheduling order shall be entered within thirty (30) days after the first defendant answers or otherwise appears.
(c) The following categories of cases shall be governed by the entry of an order setting forth a briefing schedule and such other matters as may be appropriate:
(1) Actions for review on an administrative record;
(2) Petitions for habeas corpus or other proceeding to challenge a criminal conviction or sentence;
(3) Actions brought without counsel by a person in custody of the United States, a state, or a state subdivision;
(4) Actions to enforce or quash an administrative summons or subpoena;
(5) Actions by the United States to recover benefit payments;
(6) Actions by the United States to collect on a student loan guaranteed by the United States;
(7) Proceedings ancillary to proceedings in other courts; and
(8) Actions to enforce an arbitration award.
(d) In all cases, the court may order a conference of all the parties to discuss the provisions of the discovery plan, scheduling order, briefing order setting forth a briefing schedule, and such other matters as the court deems appropriate.
LR 16-2. PRETRIAL CONFERENCES.
Unless specifically ordered, the court will not conduct pretrial conferences. A party may at any time make written request for a pretrial conference to expedite disposition of any case, particularly one which is complex or in which there has been delay. Pretrial conferences may be called at any time by the court on its own initiative.
LR 16-3. PRETRIAL ORDER, MOTIONS IN LIMINE, AND TRIAL SETTING.
(a) The scheduling order may set the date for submitting the joint pretrial order, if required by the court.
(b) Unless otherwise ordered by the court, motions in limine are due thirty (30) days prior to trial. Oppositions shall be filed and served and the motion submitted for decision fifteen (15) days thereafter. Replies will be allowed only with leave of the court.
(c) Upon the initiative of counsel for plaintiff, counsel who will try the case and who are authorized to make binding stipulations shall personally discuss settlement and prepare and lodge with the court a proposed joint pretrial order containing the following:
(1) A concise statement of the nature of the action and the contentions of the parties;
(2) A statement as to the jurisdiction of the court with specific legal citations;
(3) A statement of all uncontested facts deemed material in the action;
(4) A statement of the contested issues of fact in the case as agreed upon by the parties;
(5) A statement of the contested issues of law in the case as agreed upon by the parties;
(6) Plaintiff’s statement of any other issues of fact or law deemed to be material;
(7) Defendant’s statement of any other issues of fact or law deemed to be material;
(8) Lists or schedules of all exhibits that will be offered in evidence by the parties at the trial. Such lists or schedules shall describe the exhibits sufficiently for ready identification and:
(A) Identify the exhibits the parties agree can be admitted at trial; and
(B) List those exhibits to which objection is made and state the grounds therefor. Stipulations as to admissibility, authenticity and/or identification of documents shall be made whenever possible;
(9) A statement by each party identifying any depositions intended to be offered at the trial, except for impeachment purposes, and designating the portions of the deposition to be offered;
(10) A statement of the objections, and the grounds therefor, to deposition testimony the opposing party has designated;
(11) A list of witnesses, with their addresses, who may be called at the trial. Such list may not include witnesses whose identities were not but should have been revealed in response to permitted discovery unless the court, for good cause and on such conditions as are just, otherwise orders; and
(12) A list of motions in limine filed, if any.
(d) Except when offered for impeachment purposes, no exhibit shall be received and no witnesses shall be permitted to testify at the trial unless listed in the pretrial order. However, for good cause shown the court may allow an exception to this provision.
LR 16-4. FORM OF PRETRIAL ORDER.
Unless otherwise ordered, the pretrial order shall be in the following form:
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