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Motions and Memoranda of Law

Hearing Date

All motions must be noticed for presentment at a hearing on a date certain, as required by the Local Rules.  The Court hears motions Monday to Thursday at 9:00 a.m.  The Court requires three business days of notice before a motion hearing.  For example, absent a holiday, a motion filed on Friday may be noticed for a hearing Wednesday (at the earliest), and a motion filed on Monday may be noticed for Thursday.

Agreed Motions

If a motion is joint, uncontested, or agreed, please so indicate in the title and body of the motion.

A party seeking an extension of time must contact all other parties to determine if the motion is opposed.  The party seeking the extension should indicate in the motion (1) the reason for the request; (2) the number of previous extensions; and (3) whether the motion is opposed, and if so, on what grounds.

Rulings

To the extent possible, the Court will endeavor to rule on certain motions before the date on which they are presented.  After 4:00 p.m. on the day before the presentment date, the parties may review the electronic docket on the court’s webpage to determine whether the Court has ruled.  If the Court rules before the hearing, no appearance is necessary.

Counsel also may email the Courtroom Deputy, Jessica J Ramos, at  jessica_j_ramos@ilnd.uscourts.gov to inquire on the status of a motion.

If an appearance is not necessary, counsel for the moving party shall notify counsel for all other parties.

Citations

If counsel cites to an unpublished opinion, the Court strongly prefers citations to Westlaw.

Please attach copies of any cited authorities that are not available on Westlaw.

Searchable Text

All electronically-filed documents should be made word searchable before being filed on ECF.  The Court strongly encourages counsel to convert any word-processed document into a .pdf document by printing or publishing to .pdf, rather than manually scanning a paper copy into .pdf.  The former method of conversion generates searchable optical character recognition (OCR) text; the latter does not.



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