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v.
JUAN C. ZARAGOZA-GOMEZ, in his official
capacity as Secretary of the Treasury of the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,
Defendant.
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ORDER
The court hereby orders the parties to submit a comprehensive and final joint pre-
trial order by Friday, January 29, 2016. The court further orders the parties to submit
preliminary briefing, of no more than fifteen pages, setting forth their legal arguments on
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the merits of the causes of action in the complaint (ECF No. 1), by 5:00 p.m. on Monday,
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February 1, 2016. The court informs the parties that it does not favor motions in limine.
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Under Local Rule 5(g), [a]ll documents not in the English language which are
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of the United States Courts. L.Cv.R. 5(g). If the evidence consists of a statute or item
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of legislative history, the court expects the translation to cover the complete statute or
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item, as opposed to excerpts thereof, in order to set the evidence in its proper context.
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The First Circuit has held that, due to the English-language requirement, this court should
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not consider any documents before it that [remain] in the Spanish language. Gonzalez-
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Due to the voluminous exhibits listed in ECF No. 98, if a party wishes the court to
consider any non-testimonial evidence that has been admitted into the record, the party
must specifically refer, by individual Bates number, to the exact page (and, if numbered,
line) on which the evidence exists. The court will not ferret through an entire document
Finally, the court reiterates its earlier ruling that it can and will not take judicial
notice of out-of-court statements made to the press or reprinted in the press. (See ECF
No. 37 at 7, lines 23-25.) This judge does not practice the law or make decisions based
on evidence in a newspaper.
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IT IS SO ORDERED.
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