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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

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WAL-MART PUERTO RICO, INC.

Plaintiff,

Civil No. 3:15-CV-03018 (JAF)

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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presented or filed, whether as evidence or otherwise, must be accompanied by a certified

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translation into English prepared by an interpreter certified by the Administrative Office

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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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De Blasini v. Family Dept, 377 F.3d 81, 89 (1st Cir. 2004).

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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

in search of the factual basis of a partys allegation.

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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San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 22nd day of January, 2016.

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S/Jos Antonio Fust

JOSE ANTONIO FUSTE
U. S. DISTRICT JUDGE