Until further notice, parties should not notice motions for presentment. Parties may request a hearing for motions that they believe cannot be decided based on written submissions alone or that would otherwise benefit from a court hearing. The request must be made in the motion itself or by joint e-mail to the courtroom deputy. For any motion the parties believe would benefit from briefing, the parties should jointly e-mail the Courtroom Deputy within 2 business days of the filing of the motion to request a briefing schedule. Please be advised that the Court may set a motion hearing or a briefing schedule for any motion without a request from the parties.

Motions for Extensions of Time

A party seeking an extension of time must contact all other parties in the case to determine whether they object to the extension. Any motion for extension of time must indicate whether it is the first or subsequent extension request, shall include the reasons for the request, any previous relief granted, and whether any other party objects to the extension.

Joint, Agreed, and Uncontested Motions

Joint, uncontested, and agreed motions should be so identified in both the title and body of the motion. If the motion is scheduled for a hearing, counsel for all parties are expected to be present regardless of whether the motion is opposed.

Other Requirements

Counsel should not respond to motions by correspondence with the Court.

The Court strongly encourages counsel to convert electronic filings created with word-processing software into .pdf documents by printing or publishing to .pdfs, rather than manually scanning paper copies into .pdfs. The former method of conversion generates searchable optical character recognition (OCR) text; the latter does not.