Case 2:17-cv-00094-RAJ Document 197 Filed 06/20/18 Page 1 of 4 Hon. Richard A. Jones 1 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 7 8 9 ABDIQAFAR WAGAFE, et al., 10 11 12 v. DONALD TRUMP, et al., 13 14 15 16 No. C17-94 RAJ Plaintiff(s), ORDER SETTING AMENDED TRIAL DATE AND RELATED DATES Defendant(s). Having considered the parties’ Stipulated Proposed Case Schedule and Trial Date (Dkt. #193), and taking into account the Court’s availability, the Court sets the following trial date and pretrial deadlines: 17 18 19 BENCH TRIAL DATE MARCH 11, 2019 Length of Trial 5 days Expert Witness Disclosure/Reports Under FRCP 26(a)(2) Due September 26, 2018 20 21 22 23 24 All motions related to discovery must be noted on the motion calendar no later than the Friday before discovery closes pursuant to LCR7(d)(3) 25 26 Deadline to Complete Discovery ORDER SETTING AMENDED TRIAL DATE AND RELATED DATES – 1 November 13, 2018 Case 2:17-cv-00094-RAJ Document 197 Filed 06/20/18 Page 2 of 4 1 All dispositive motions must be filed by and noted on the motion calendar no later than the fourth Friday thereafter pursuant to LCR7(d)(3) December 11, 2018 All motions in limine must be filed by and noted on the motion calendar three Fridays thereafter pursuant to LCR7(d)(4) February 11, 2019 Agreed Pretrial Order due February 25, 2019 8 Pretrial conference To be set by the Court 9 Trial briefs, deposition designations, and trial exhibits due March 4, 2019 2 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 These are firm dates that can be changed only by order of the Court, not 12 13 14 15 by agreement of counsel or the parties. The Court will alter these dates only upon good cause shown. Counsel must be prepared to begin trial on the date scheduled, but it should be understood that the trial may have to await the completion of other cases. 16 COUNSEL ARE DIRECTED TO REVIEW JUDGE JONES’ 17 CHAMBERS PROCEDURES at http://www.wawd.uscourts.gov/judges/jones- 18 procedures. Counsel are expected to abide by the requirements set forth 19 therein. Failure to do so may result in the imposition of sanctions. 20 Links to Local Rules, Electronic Filing Procedures for Civil and Criminal 21 Cases, court forms, instruction sheets, and General Orders, can be found on the 22 Court’s website at www.wawd.uscourts.gov. 23 /// 24 /// 25 /// 26 /// ORDER SETTING AMENDED TRIAL DATE AND RELATED DATES – 2 Case 2:17-cv-00094-RAJ Document 197 Filed 06/20/18 Page 3 of 4 1 ALTERATIONS TO FILING PROCEDURES 2 Counsel are required to electronically file all documents with the Court. Pro se 3 litigants may file either electronically or in paper form. Information and procedures 4 for electronic filing can be found on the Western District of Washington’s website at 5 http://www.wawd.uscourts.gov/attorneys/cmecf. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 The following alterations to the Filing Procedures apply in all cases pending before Judge Jones: 1. Mandatory chambers copies are required for all e-filed motions, responses, replies, and surreplies, and all supporting documentation relating to motions, regardless of page length. The paper copy of the documents (with tabs or other organizing aids as necessary) shall be delivered to the Clerk’s Office by 12:00 p.m. on the business day after filing. The chambers copy must be clearly marked with the words “Courtesy 13 Copy of Electronic Filing for Chambers.” The parties are required to print all 14 courtesy copies from CM/ECF using the “Include headers when displaying PDF 15 documents” feature under “Document Options.” This requirement applies also to 16 pleadings filed under seal. 17 2. Searchable PDFs: All documents filed electronically must be submitted in 18 PDF format to permit text searches and to facilitate transmission and retrieval. 19 Before these documents are electronically filed, the CM/ECF User shall convert the 20 documents to PDF format. These documents may not be scanned. 21 22 23 24 25 26 EXHIBITS The original and one copy of any exhibits to be used at trial are to be delivered to chambers no later than 4:00 p.m. on the date set forth above. Each exhibit shall be clearly marked. Exhibit tags are available in the Clerk’s Office. The Court hereby sets forth the following procedure for numbering exhibits: Plaintiff’s exhibits shall be numbered consecutively beginning with 1. Defendant’s exhibits ORDER SETTING AMENDED TRIAL DATE AND RELATED DATES – 3 Case 2:17-cv-00094-RAJ Document 197 Filed 06/20/18 Page 4 of 4 1 shall be numbered consecutively after Plaintiff’s exhibits using the next number 2 sequence not used by Plaintiff (e.g., if Plaintiff has marked 150 exhibits, Defendant 3 shall mark its exhibits beginning with 200) . Duplicate documents shall not be listed 4 twice. Once a party has identified an exhibit in the pretrial order, any party may use 5 it. Each set of exhibits shall be submitted in a three-ring binder with appropriately 6 numbered tabs. 7 8 9 10 11 COOPERATION As required by LCR 37(a), all discovery matters are to be resolved by agreement, if possible. Counsel and the parties are further directed to cooperate in preparing the final Pretrial Order in the format required by LCR 16.1, except as it pertains to exhibits, as ordered above. 12 13 14 SETTLEMENT Should this case settle, counsel shall notify Victoria Ericksen as soon as 15 possible at victoria_ericksen@wawd.uscourts.gov. An attorney or party who fails to 16 give the Court prompt notice of settlement may be subject to such discipline as the 17 Court deems appropriate. 18 19 DATED: June 20, 2018. A 20 21 The Honorable Richard A. Jones United States District Judge 22 23 24 25 26 ORDER SETTING AMENDED TRIAL DATE AND RELATED DATES – 4