June 1, 2007

 

Rory H. Foley

Assistant Attorney General

Suite 900

445 Minnesota Street

St. Paul, MN 55101-2127

Kelly W. Hoversten, Esq.

Gray, Plant, Mooty, Mooty & Bennett, P.A.

500 IDS Center

80 South Eighth Street

Minneapolis, MN  55402-3796

 

Erik T. Salveson, Esq.

Halleland Lewis Nilan & Johnson, PA

600 U.S. Bank Plaza South

220 South Sixth Street

Minneapolis, MN  55402-4501

 

          Re:     Commissioner of Labor and Industry vs. Smith Foundry Company

                    OAH Docket No. 3-1901-17986-2

 

Dear Counsel:

 

          This letter constitutes the Prehearing Order concerning discussions held in the telephone prehearing conference on May 23, 2007.  Mr. Foley appeared for the Commissioner; Mr. Hoversten appeared for Smith Foundry Company.

 

          During the prehearing conference we set the following deadlines: 

 

          October 31, 2007:             Discovery deadline.  All discovery requests shall be                                                             served sufficiently in advance of this deadline so that                                                         responses are due no later than October 31, 2007.

 

          November 9, 2007:            Motion deadline.

 

          November 16, 2007:          Deadline for the parties to exchange all exhibits they                                                      intend to offer into evidence at the hearing, along with                                             a witness list containing a brief summary of the                                                        anticipated testimony of each witness.  The parties                                                            shall provide to the Administrative Law Judge copies                                                      of the exhibit and witness lists, but not the exhibits.

 

          December 4-6, 2007:         Hearing, commencing at 9:30 a.m. at the Office of                                                             Administrative Hearings.  By the time of the hearing                                                           OAH will be located in the Stassen Building, 600                                                   North Robert Street, St. Paul.

 

          If the parties decide that mediation by an Administrative Law Judge might help them successfully resolve this matter, mediation can usually be arranged fairly quickly.  Please send a letter to Chief Administrative Law Judge Raymond R. Krause informing him that both parties request assignment of another ALJ to act as a mediator in this matter.

 

                                                                      Sincerely,

 

                                                                      s/Kathleen D. Sheehy

 

                                                                      KATHLEEN D. SHEEHY

                                                                      Administrative Law Judge

                                                                      Telephone: (612) 341-7602

 

 

 

 

 

 

cc:      Docket Coordinator