Judge Stanley A. Boone

Unless prior leave of Court is obtained before the filing date, all moving and opposition briefs or legal memorandum in civil cases shall not exceed twenty-five (25) pages. Reply briefs filed by moving parties shall not exceed ten (10) pages.

Letter briefs which exceed the page limitations set forth herein will be disregarded by the Court after the page limit is exceeded.

Briefs that exceed the page limitations or are sought to be filed without leave may not be considered.

The parties shall file a joint letter brief, not to exceed four pages, at least 24 hours before the scheduled informal conference, unless otherwise ordered by the Court.

The parties shall file a joint letter brief, not to exceed four pages, at least 24 hours (excluding holidays or weekends) before the scheduled informal video conference, unless otherwise ordered by the Court.

Individual letter briefs will not be permitted, except in rare circumstances and only upon leave of the court. If permitted, individual letter briefs are limited to two pages and must include, in addition information detailed above, a description as to why a joint letter brief was unattainable.

Even if multiple discovery disputes are raised at the informal conference, the four-page limitation shall apply, unless prior leave of Court is obtained.

As required by Local Rule 137(b), counsel shall submit all proposed orders, stipulations, etc., in Microsoft Word® format, to chambers at saborders@caed.uscourts.gov.

Each party must prepare at least three (3) complete, legible and identical sets of exhibits in binders. The number of binders will vary based upon number of opposing parties’ counsel. Within the binders, the pre-marked exhibits must be separately tabbed and assembled in sequential order. The binders shall be delivered as follows: a. Two (2) binder sets shall be delivered to Courtroom Deputy Jan Nguyen (one for use by the Court and one for use by any witness at the witness stand); and b. One (1) binder set shall be provided for each opposing counsel’s use.

The letter brief must be at least 12-point font. Letter briefs which exceed the page limitations set forth herein will be disregarded by the Court after the page limit is exceeded.

the Court will impose sanctions against any party who, after agreeing to participate in the informal discovery process, fails to meet and confer in good faith, fails to participate in drafting the joint letter brief in good faith, fails to timely file the letter brief, and/or fails to appear at the informal video-conference hearing.

Confidential Settlement Conference Statements are MANDATORY from each party and must be submitted to Judge Boone's chambers at least seven (7) days prior to the Settlement Conference.

Failure to timely submit a letter brief will result in the informal conference being vacated and sanctions against any responsible parties.

The Request to Seal, a proposed sealing order (in word), and all documents covered by the request shall be emailed to saborders@caed.uscourts.gov.

Any motion will be removed from calendar if the Joint Statement is not timely filed.

The parties may not call any witness that is not on their Final Trial Witness List unless (1) it is solely for impeachment or rebuttal purposes, (2) the parties stipulate, (3) additional witnesses are required in light of the Court’s ruling on a motion in limine, or (4) it is necessary to prevent “manifest injustice.”

One (1) week prior to trial, the parties must file their Exhibit List and submit their pre-marked exhibits in binders.

Four (4) weeks prior to trial, the parties shall exchange their proposed exhibits. No later than three (3) weeks before trial, the parties’ counsel shall meet and conduct an exhibit conference to pre-mark and examine trial exhibits and to prepare exhibit lists

One (1) week prior to trial, the parties shall file their joint proposed jury instructions with the Court. However, prior to that filing, three (3) weeks before trial, the parties shall serve their proposed jury instructions on each another.

If any party proposes additional jury instructions that are not agreed upon by all parties, such proposed jury instructions shall be filed with the Court no later than one (1) week before trial. Each party may file up to ten (10) proposed jury instructions and identify such as jury instructions upon which all parties could not agree. Unless prior leave is granted, the Court will not consider additional proposed jury instructions beyond the first ten (10).

One (1) week before trial, the parties shall file their proposed voir dire questions, if any.

If any party proposes a jury instruction that departs from the language used in the Ninth Circuit Model Jury Instructions, CACI, BAJI or other source of jury instructions, that party shall, by italics or underlining, highlight the differences in language and must cite the legal authority supporting the modification.

Proposed jury instructions shall (1) indicate the party submitting the instruction (i.e., joint/agreed-on, Plaintiff’s or Defendants’), (2) be numbered sequentially, (3) include a brief title for the instruction describing the subject matter, (4) include the text of the instruction, and (5) cite the legal authority supporting the instruction.

No later than the Thursday before trial, the parties shall file and serve written objections to any disputed jury instructions proposed by another party.

One (1) week before trial, the parties shall file their trial briefs. The form and content of the trial brief must comply with Local Rule 285.

Failure to timely submit a letter brief will result in the informal video conference being vacated and sanctions against any responsible parties.

The letter brief shall be both filed with the Court (in ECF under “Civil Events”; “Other Filings”; “Other Documents”; “Informal Discovery Dispute Letter Brief”) and emailed to saborders@caed.uscourts.gov before the applicable deadline.

All parties must be cc’d on the e-mail with the letter brief attached.