Opinion
19 Civ. 2089 (KPF)
12-06-2021
AVRA AKAGI SCHER and JOHN SOHEI AKAGI, Plaintiffs, v. TURIN HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND COMPANY, INC., et al., Defendants.
ORDER
KATHERINE POLK FAILLA, DISTRICT JUDGE
The Southern District of New York has reconfigured courtrooms and other spaces in its courthouses to allow civil jury trials to proceed as safely as possible during the COVID-19 pandemic. Under the centralized calendaring system currently in place, the Clerk's Office schedules up to three jury trials to begin on each day of jury selection: a primary case and up to two back-up cases that may proceed in its place if the primary case does not go forward. On April 22, 2021, the Court ordered the trial in this matter to commence on March 7, 2022 (Dkt. #101), and proceeded to request a jury trial for that date.
The Clerk's Office has now notified the Court that this case has been placed on the jury trial list for March 17, 2022. The case must be trial-ready for that date. The case is second on the list for jury trials for that day. This means that the case will not proceed on March 17, 2022, if the other trial scheduled for that date goes forward. If the case cannot proceed on the scheduled date, the Court will seek another jury trial date for as soon as 1 possible thereafter. As soon as the Court confirms that the matter will proceed on March 17, 2022, it will inform the parties.
The Court has previously entered a schedule for pretrial submissions, pursuant to which the parties' Joint Pretrial Order, motions in limine, requests to charge, proposed voir dire questions, and any pretrial memoranda of law will be due February 7, 2022; and any opposition papers to motions in limine will be due February 14, 2022. (See Dkt. #101). A final pretrial conference is scheduled for February 24, 2022, at 3:00 p.m., in Courtroom 618 of the Thurgood Marshall Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, New York, New York. (See id.).
SO ORDERED. 2