Local Rule LR 16.1: SCHEDULING CONFERENCES

LR 16.1 SCHEDULING CONFERENCES Pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P 16(b), this court has determined that pretrial conference procedures are inappropriate for certain types of cases and hereby exempts the following:

1. Actions for review on an administrative record including bankruptcy appeals and social security reviews;

2. Condemnation Actions;

3. Foreclosures;

4. Deportation Actions;

5. Equal Access to Justice/Fee Award Appeals;

6. Forfeiture and Statutory Penalty Actions;

7. Freedom of Information Actions;

8. Government Collection Actions including actions to recover benefit payments and actions to collect on a student loan guaranteed by the United States;

9. Judgments/Actions to Enforce or Register;

10. Petitions for habeas corpus or any other proceeding to challenge a criminal conviction or sentence;

11. Actions brought without an attorney by a person in the custody of the United States, a state, or a state subdivision;

12. Selective Service Actions;

13. Proceedings ancillary to a proceeding in another court;

14. Actions to enforce or quash a summons or subpoena of any kind;

15. Actions to enforce an arbitration award.

The court may choose to exempt any case from the Fed. R. Civ. P.16 pretrial conference procedure.