Request for Trial De Novo – Calendar – Jury Demand.

  1. Assignment of Trial Date. If there is a request for a trial de novo, or the case is otherwise removed from the Mandatory Arbitration calendar, the Court will assign a trial date.
  2. Case Schedule. Cases originally governed by a Case Schedule will again become subject to a Case Schedule if a trial de novo is requested. Promptly after the request for trial de novo is filed, Court Administration will mail or e-mail to all parties an Amended Case Schedule, which will govern the case until the trial de novo.
    • The Amended Case Schedule will include the following deadlines:
      1. Plaintiff’s Disclosure of Lay and Expert Witnesses (1 month)
      2. Defendant’s Disclosure of Lay and Expert Witnesses (3 months)
      3. Disclosure of Plaintiff’s Rebuttal Witnesses (4 months)
      4. Disclosure of Defendant’s Rebuttal Witnesses (5 months)
      5. Discovery Cutoff (5 ½ months)
      6. Settlement Position Statement filed by all parties (6 months)
      7. Last Date for Hearing Dispositive Pretrial Motions (6 months)
      8. Settlement Conference (6 ½ months)
      9. Last Date for Filing and Serving Trial Management Report (7 months)
      10. Pretrial Conference (7 months)
      11. Trial Memoranda, Motions in Limine, Jury Instructions (2 wks. to trial)
      12. Trial Priority Hearing (1 week to trial)
      13. Trial Date (9 months)
  3. Jury Demand.  Jury Demands shall be filed as set forth under CR 38.

[Updated September 1, 2024; Updated format only April 22, 2025]