Local Rule LR 16.4: Scheduling Conferences
M.D. Pa. — Civil rule
LR 16.4 Scheduling Conferences. The court shall issue a scheduling order within one hundred and twenty (120) days after service of the complaint after consulting with counsel and any pro se litigants by conference, telephone, mail, or any other suitable means. Inasmuch as no Health and Human Services cases (Social Security Appeals) ever reach the trial stage and relatively few prisoner and U.S. Government loan cases reach that stage, such cases are exempted from the mandatory case management conference and scheduling order requirements.