Opinion
21-1109-JAR
12-07-2021
AMENDED SCHEDULING ORDER
James P. O'Hara U.S. Magistrate Judge
The parties have filed a joint motion (ECF No. 46) to amend the scheduling order filed on August 3, 2021 (ECF No. 16), as amended on September 28, 2021 (ECF No. 28). For good cause shown, the motion is granted and the scheduling order is amended as follows:
a. Mediation shall be held no later than January 31, 2022.
b. All discovery shall be commenced or served in time to be completed by May 27, 2022.
c. Disclosures required by Fed.R.Civ.P. 26(a)(2), including reports from retained experts, are due from defendant by March 31, 2022. Disclosures and reports by any rebuttal experts are due by April 29, 2022.
d. The parties shall complete all Fed.R.Civ.P. 35 physical or mental examinations by March 21, 2022.
e. The final pretrial conference is rescheduled from April 22, 2022, to June 16, 2022, at 10:00 a.m., in the U.S. Courthouse, Room 223, 500 State Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. Unless otherwise notified, the undersigned magistrate judge will conduct the conference. No. later than June 7, 2022, defendant shall submit the parties' proposed pretrial order as an attachment to an e-mail directed to ksd_ohara_chambers@ksd.uscourts.gov. It shall be in the form available on the court's website (www.ksd.uscourts.gov).
f. The deadline for filing all other potentially dispositive motions is now July 15, 2022.
g. At the direction of the presiding U.S. district judge, the case is re-set for trial on a trial calendar that will begin on March 7, 2023. The trial setting may be changed only by order of the judge presiding over the trial.
All other provisions of the original scheduling order shall remain in effect. The schedule adopted in this amended scheduling order shall not be modified except by leave of court upon a showing of good cause.
IT IS SO ORDERED.