Anthony Jackson v. FCA US, LLC

Summary

This is a scheduling order in Anthony Jackson v. FCA US, LLC, issued by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. It establishes discovery, expert disclosure, motion, settlement, pretrial, and trial deadlines, including a jury trial set for June 29, 2027.

Holdings

1. The court may issue a Rule 16(b) scheduling order without consulting the parties at a scheduling conference when the court determines that the conference is unnecessary after reviewing the parties' joint status report.
2. After the schedule becomes final, it may be modified only by leave of court upon a showing of good cause; party stipulations alone do not modify the schedule or extend scheduling requirements.
3. A party seeking amendment after the scheduling order must first establish good cause to modify the schedule, and an amendment under Rule 15(a) must not be prejudicial, the product of undue delay, proposed in bad faith, or futile.
4. The court declined to adopt the parties' unsupported proposals that would modify the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure governing ESI search methodology, phased discovery, requests for production, requests for admission, deposition subjects and limits, deposition objections, and custodians of records.

Questions Presented

1. Whether the court should vacate the initial scheduling conference and issue a scheduling order based on the parties' joint status report.
2. Whether the parties had shown good cause to modify the schedule or governing Federal Rules of Civil Procedure concerning amendment, discovery, electronically stored information, depositions, and discovery limits.

Disposition

other