Luis Pena v. Bristol West Insurance Company

Summary

This Initial Scheduling Order in Pena v. Bristol West Insurance Company establishes pretrial and case-management requirements in a civil action before the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico. It sets deadlines for the Rule 26(f) meet-and-confer, filing of the Joint Status Report and Provisional Discovery Plan, initial disclosures, and a telephonic Rule 16 scheduling conference.

Holdings

1. The parties must meet and confer by January 12, 2026, formulate a provisional discovery plan, and file a Joint Status Report and Provisional Discovery Plan by January 21, 2026.
2. The parties must preserve discoverable electronically stored information and make initial disclosures under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(a)(1) within fourteen days after the meet-and-confer session.

Questions Presented

1. What scheduling, discovery, initial-disclosure, preservation, and pretrial-management requirements should govern the case before the Rule 16 scheduling conference?

Disposition

other