The federal judge in the Enron shareholders’ class action suit issued an order today (July 11), to revise the pretrial schedule for the case, setting a new trial date of October 17, 2005. The scheduling order allows discovery to proceed.

The revised schedule was set “to establish a discovery process that is orderly, efficient, focused, and observant of the rights of all litigants” in light of the overriding need for “systematic, nonduplicative, coordinated discovery” in the Enron case, according to the order issued by Judge Melinda Harmon in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

REVISED SCHEDULE

Deadline for discovery in class certification: Sep. 15, 2003
General discovery
Document production completed by Oct. 1, 2003
Depositions may begin Jan. 10, 2004
Deadline for joining new parties: Jan. 10, 2004
Fact discovery completed by Dec. 17, 2004
Plaintiffs’ expert witness reports provided by Jan. 7, 2005
Defendants’ expert witness reports provided by Feb. 25, 2005
Expert discovery completed by Apr. 15, 2005
Joint pretrial orders filed by Sep. 15, 2005
Pretrial conference: Oct. 3, 2005
Trail begins Oct. 17, 2005