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.
2/28/2025
