Lime Rock Resources Operating Company, Inc. et al v. McPherson et al

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF NORTH DAKOTA
Lime Rock Resources Operating Company, )
Inc., Lime Rock Management LP, and 	)
Lime Rock Resources III-A, L.P., 	)
) 	ORDER AMENDING PRETRIAL
Plaintiffs, 	) 	DEADLINES
)
vs. 	)
)
Matthew McPherson, Badlands Resources, 	)
LLC, Bakken Energy Partners, LLC, 	)
Fighting Sioux Oil & Gas LLC, Roughrider )
Oil and Gas, LLC, Gallatin Oil, LLC, and 	) 	Case No. 1:20-cv-213
Great Plains Land Services, Inc., 	)
)
Defendants. 	)
On July 30, 2021, court held a status conference with the parties by telephone. Pursuant to
an agreement reached by the parties to amend the pretrial deadlines, the court AMENDS the pretrial
deadlines as follows:
1. 	The parties shall have until December 31, 2021, to complete fact discovery.
2. 	The parties shall have until January 14, 2022, to file discovery motions.
3. 	Plaintiffs’ expert witness reports are due by January 4, 2022.
4. 	Defendants’ expert witness reports are due by February 1, 2022.
5. 	Rebuttal expert witness reports are due by February 25, 2022.
6. 	The parties shall have until March 14, 2022, to file expert discovery motions.
7. 	The parties shall have until April 1, 2022, to complete discovery depositions of
expert witnesses.
8. 	The parties shall have until October 29, 2021, to file motions to join additional
parties, motions to amend pleadings, motions to amend pleadings to add claims for
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punitive damages, and nondispositive motions (e.g. consolidation,, bifurcation).
IT IS SO ORDERED.
Dated this 30th day of July, 2021.
/s/ Clare R. Hochhalter
Clare R. Hochhalter, Magistrate Judge
United States District Court
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