CAUSE NO. |
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____________________________ VS ____________________________ |
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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF 412TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT |
DOCKET CONTROL ORDER
1. __________________ Deadline for joining new parties. New parties shall be joined and served by this date. The party causing such joinder will provide copies of this order to the new parties.
2. __________________ Deadline for designation of experts by party seeking affirmative relief. No additional experts will be permitted to testify, except for good cause.
3. __________________ Deadline for designation of experts by party responding to affirmative relief. No additional experts will be permitted to testify, except for good cause.
4. __________________ Deadline for completing all discovery, including responses to request for admissions. Any discovery requests not timely served to enable completion in accordance with the Rules of Civil Procedure will be quashed except for good cause shown. Discovery beyond this date will be allowed only if all parties affected agree to same.
5. __________________ Deadline for amending pleadings. All pleadings must be amended by this date. However, any party responding to an amended pleading may promptly file a pleading which is directly responsive to any amended pleading filed by the deadline.
6. __________________ Deadline
for filing Motions to Challenge Experts, for Summary Judgment and all other
dispositive motions. All Motions to
Challenge Experts must be heard by the earlier of (a) forty-five (45) days
after filing, or (b) the Friday preceding the trial date.
7. __________________ Status Conference.
8. __________________ All Pre-Trial Motions must be heard no later than 12:00 noon on the Friday preceding the trial date set in Paragraph 9 (including Motions in Limine, Motions for Continuance, and Motions to Challenge Experts).
9. __________________ Counsel for all parties shall exchange trial witness lists, proposed exhibit list, and proposed jury questions, definitions and instructions with copies mailed to the Court by this date.
10. __________________ TRIAL
IS SET FOR THIS DATE. Docket call
will be on this date at
Mediation or other alternative dispute resolution will be set as determined by the Court.
NO TRIAL SETTING
REQUEST MAY BE FILED WITHOUT CONSENT OF ALL PARTIES PRIOR TO DATE IN PARAGRAPH 10.
FAILURE TO ABIDE BY THIS MAY SUBJECT THE
PARTY REQUESTING THE TRIAL SETTING TO SANCTIONS.
SIGNED this the _____________ day of ___________________________, 20_____.
W. EDWIN DENMAN
Judge, 412th District Court
AGREED:
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Attorney for Plaintiff
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Attorney for Defendant