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Scheduling Conferences

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Rule Set: Local Rules of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Rule: 16.4

Jurisdiction: MDPA

Bluebook Citation: M.D. Pa. L.R. 16.4

All Rules: M.D. Pa. Local Rules, complete index

Text

The court shall issue a scheduling order within one hundred and twenty (120) days after service of the complaint after consulting with counsel and any pro se litigants by conference, telephone, mail, or any other suitable means. Inasmuch as no Health and Human Services cases (Social Security Appeals) ever reach the trial stage and relatively few prisoner and U.S. Government loan cases reach that stage, such cases are exempted from the mandatory case management conference and scheduling order requirements.

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