Scheduling Motions
The Court hears motions Tuesdays at 9:50 a.m.

All motions, stipulated or not, must be noticed for hearing. All motions must be filed  at least three working days prior to the date of the hearing of the motion pursuant to Local Rule 78.1 .  

Courtesy copies are not required unless specifically requested by the Court.

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

Extensions of Time
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.  Motion for extensions of time must be filed before the deadline.

Searchable Text
To the extent possible, 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.