UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. In the Matter of 1
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ORDER NO. 5
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SETTING TARGET DATE AND DATE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSED PROCEDURAL SCHEDULES (January 5,2009)
The notice of investigation was published on December 10,2008. (73 Fed. Reg. 75 13 1). Having considered the position of the parties in their discovery statements and taking into account the ALJ’s commitments in other already instituted investigations, he is setting a sixteen month target date, i. e., April 11,2010. Hence, any final initial determination should be filed no later than December 11,2009.* Proposed procedural schedule(s) should be received by the ALJ no later than close of business on Friday, January 16,2009. Said proposed procedural schedule should include dates for each of the events set forth in Ground Rule 2. Based on the target date for this investigation, and taking into consideration the ALJ’s scheduling of other cases, along with courtroom availability, the ALJ anticipates the pre-hearing conference and tutorial, if necessary, to start at
* The parties should note that the hearing date and target date for this investigation are tentative and only feasible if some of the ALJ’s previously instituted cases are terminated or reassigned to another judge. As of the date of this order, the ALJ has four hearings scheduled before the August hearing in this investigation. In addition, the ALJ has six final initial determinations that must also be filed with the Commission before the date the final initial determination in this investigation is due.
1O:OO AM on Thursday, August 13,2009, in the Hearing Room A, with the hearing to
commence at 9:OO AM on Monday, August 17. The hearing shall conclude no later than Friday, August 28,2009. The parties shall take these dates into consideration when proposing their procedural schedule. The proposed schedule should include dates for three settlement meetings at a time, date, and location of the parties' choosing for the exploration of settlement, by persons of requisite authority, of some or all of the issues in the case. Unless the parties obtain the permission of the ALJ, for good cause shown, the settlement meetings should not occur by video-conferencing or by teleconferencing. The first one of these dates should be relatively early in the investigation, the second should be approximately midway through the period for discovery, while the last should be set for the period between the close of discovery and before the commencement of the hearing. The parties should also include dates in the proposed schedule for filing the joint settlement conference reports. The parties should make intensive good faith efforts to agree to a procedural schedule. It is expected that in most instances the parties should be able to submit ajoint proposal on this matter.
SO ORDERED. Theodore R. Essex ' Administrative Law Judge
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PUBLIC CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I, Marilyn R. Abbott, hereby certify that the attached ORDER 5 has been served by hand upon the Commission Investigative Attorney, Vu Q. Bui, Esq., and the following parties as indicated January 5, 2009. on
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COMPLAINANT RAMBUS, INC. J. Michael Jakes, Esq. Christine E. Lehman, Esq. FINNEGAN, HENDERSON, FARABOW, GARRETT&DUNNER,LLP 901 New York Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20001
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