Overview
● Judge Forrest, whose preference for moving cases along has been noted here before (see here and here), updated her form scheduling order yesterday to generally require fact discovery to be complete in four months, with a trial date within the next 50 days (see redline). ● Judge Rakoff amended his model protective order today to make clear that his discretion to unseal documents submitted with motions or proceedings is “unfettered” discretion (see redline). ● Judge Cote earlier this month joined the trend of judges accepting correspondence by email (see new individual rules and redline). ● Newly appointed Magistrate Judge Netburn introduced on Friday her first individual rules, which follow the fairly standard Southern District template.
