DocketNumber: No. 102-63
Citation Numbers: 212 Ct. Cl. 521
Judges: Bennett, Nichols, Skelton
Filed Date: 11/12/1976
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 11/23/2022
“This case comes before the court on a request, filed September 13,1976, by defendant United States and defendant-intervenor, the Hoopa Valley Tribe of Indians, for review of the trial judge’s order of September 3, 1976. The thrust of the request is that the trial judge has changed in midstream the pretrial procedural requirements previously ordered by him. The request observes that those requirements have been substantially complied with at a great expenditure of time and finances by defendants, but that the trial judge would by his order now permit certain plaintiffs to avoid, or at least delay, the filing of replies to defendants’ response, except as to legal issues deemed pertinent to prospective motions for summary judgment. Claimants surviving such motions would have to file replies later on the factual issues which are disputed.
“it is therefore ordered that the request for review is granted but that upon review the order of the trial judge entered September 3,1976, is affirmed.”