Pretrial deadlines require submission of witness and exhibit lists, deposition designations and counter-designations, motions in limine, proposed jury instructions, and the joint pretrial order.
They typically cluster in the weeks before trial.
Alternative Names:
Pretrial Submission Deadline, Pretrial Filing Deadline
Why it Matters?
These deadlines carry waiver consequences that are easy to underestimate, since witnesses and exhibits omitted from the required lists are generally excluded. The volume of simultaneous submissions is also a practical problem, because designations, instructions, limine motions, and the pretrial order all come due within a compressed period. Working backward from the trial date to build a submission schedule prevents the compression from producing omissions.
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