Local Rule LR 16.1: Scheduling Orders; Alternative Dispute Resolution

LR 16.1 Scheduling Orders; Alternative Dispute Resolution.

(a) Except as otherwise ordered by a judge of the court in a particular case, a scheduling order need not be entered in the following categories of cases:

(1) Cases filed in, removed to, or transferred to this court before December 1, 1993;

(2) Bankruptcy appeals and withdrawals (NOS: 422-23);

(3) Condemnation actions (NOS: 210);

(4) Deportation actions (NOS: 460);

(5) Equal Access to Justice – Fee award appeals (NOS: 900);

(6) Forfeiture and statutory penalty actions (NOS: 610-690);

(7) Freedom of Information actions (NOS: 895);

(8) Government collection actions (NOS: 151-153);

(9) Judgments – actions to enforce or register (NOS: 150);

(10) Prisoner actions to vacate sentence, for habeas corpus, or for mandamus (NOS: 510-40);

(11) Selective Service actions (NOS: 810);

(12) Social Security reviews (NOS: 861-65);

(13) Summons/subpoenas – proceedings to enforce/contest government summons and private party depositions;

(14) Third Party IRS tax actions (NOS: 871);

(15) Cases instituted pro se by prisoners;

(16) Cases consolidated with a case in which the parties have met as provided in this paragraph or in which a scheduling order under Fed. R. Civ. P. 16(b) has been entered; and

(17) Cases transferred to this court under 28 U.S.C. § 1407 or consolidated with cases so transferred, and cases subject to potential transfer to another court under 28 U.S.C. § 1407 pursuant to a motion pending before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation or a conditional transfer order entered by that Panel.

(b) A judge of the court may, in a scheduling order or by separate order, direct that the litigants engage in one or more procedures for alternative dispute resolution as authorized and provided in the ADR plan adopted by the court.