SCHEDULING CONFERENCES
U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota
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Pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P 16(b), this court has determined that pretrial conference procedures are inappropriate for certain types of cases and hereby exempts the following: 1. Actions for review on an administrative record including bankruptcy appeals and social security reviews; 2. Condemnation Actions; 3. Foreclosures; 4.
Deportation Actions; 5. Equal Access to Justice/Fee Award Appeals; 6. Forfeiture and Statutory Penalty Actions; 7. Freedom of Information Actions; 8.
Government Collection Actions including actions to recover benefit payments and actions to collect on a student loan guaranteed by the United States; 9. Judgments/Actions to Enforce or Register; 10. Petitions for habeas corpus or any other proceeding to challenge a criminal conviction or sentence; 11. Actions brought without an attorney by a person in the custody of the United States, a state, or a state subdivision; 12.
Selective Service Actions; 13. Proceedings ancillary to a proceeding in another court; 14. Actions to enforce or quash a summons or subpoena of any kind; 15. Actions to enforce an arbitration award.
The court may choose to exempt any case from the Fed. R. Civ. P.16 pretrial conference procedure. 7 2/28/2025