Rule 146.05 - Case Management Order and Scheduling OrderIn all complex cases, the judge assigned to the case shall enter a Case Management Order and a Scheduling Order (together or separately) addressing the matters set forth in Minn. R. Civ. P. 16.02 and 16.03, and including without limitation the following:
(a) The dates for subsequent Case Management Conferences in the case; (b) the deadline for the parties to meet and confer regarding discovery needs and the preservation and production of electronically stored information; (c) the deadline for joining other parties;(d) the deadline for amending the pleadings;(e) the deadline by which fact discovery will close and provisions for disclosure or discovery of electronically stored information;(f) the deadlines by which parties will make expert witness disclosures and deadlines for expert witness depositions;(g) the deadlines for non-dispositive and dispositive motions; (h) any modifications to the extent of required disclosures and discovery, such as, among other things, limits on: (1) the number of fact depositions each party may take; (2) the number of interrogatories each party may serve; (3) the number of expert witnesses each party may call at trial; (4) the number of expert witnesses each party may depose; and(i) a date certain for trial subject to continuation for good cause only, and a statement of whether the case will be tried to a jury or the bench and an estimate of the trial's duration.Minn. Gen. R. Prac. 146.05