Courtesy copies are required when a filing is > 20 pages. Details: delivery upon filing. A courtesy copy is required when a letter motion with exhibits or attachments exceeds 20 pages.
Judge James M. Wicks's rules set a pre-motion procedure for discovery. Letter-motion practice requires an opposition within four days and does not permit replies.
Judge James M. Wicks' rule states these limits: 1500 words. Excludes attachments. Letter motions are capped at 1,500 words, double-spaced, including footnotes, excluding attachments.
Judge James M. Wicks' rule states these limits: 1500 words. Excludes attachments. Responses to letter motions are limited to 1,500 words and must be filed within four days of receipt.
Judge James M. Wicks' formatting rule includes file format paper. Documents filed under a court-ordered confidentiality agreement are exempt from ECF and must be filed in hard copy.
The rule requires legal argument. Legal argument must appear in a memorandum of law rather than in affidavits or declarations.
The rule requires proposed order. Pro hac vice motions must include a proposed order and be electronically served and filed at least seven days before the return date.
Parties may contact Judge James M. Wicks' intake unit by phone only as allowed by the rule. The rule lists phone (631) 712-6060. Pro se parties must contact the pro se office rather than Chambers by phone.
A motion to seal is required for covered sealed filings before Judge James M. Wicks. Requests to seal court documents must be made under Rule 3(C), not by letter motion.
Requests should be made at least 2 business days in advance when this rule applies before Judge James M. Wicks. The request must include original date, number of previous requests, previous requests granted or denied, reason for request, adversary position, affects other dates, and proposed new dates.
Yes. Judge James M. Wicks requires bundling for covered papers. Movants must file the full motion package, including stipulations of fact and the Administrative Record, together.
Docketing and scheduling questions should be directed to the Courtroom Deputy.
Phone calls to Chambers are allowed only when counsel for all parties is on the line.
Pro se parties must contact the pro se office rather than Chambers by phone.
Letters to the Court must be filed via ECF unless otherwise directed, and ex parte submissions are barred except confidential settlement materials.
Fax communications to Chambers require prior authorization.
Adjournment and extension requests must be filed in writing at least two business days in advance with specified information, filed through ECF as motions, and include revised scheduling information when other dates are affected.
Emergency adjournment or extension applications may be made by phone to Chambers.
Adjournment requests for conferences must propose at least three mutually convenient new dates and times.
Requests for disability or religious accommodations may be sent to Chambers by email.
In civil cases, documents directed to Magistrate Judge Wicks must be filed electronically except as specifically exempted.
ECF filing and training questions should be directed by phone to the listed clerk contacts.
A courtesy copy is required when a letter motion with exhibits or attachments exceeds 20 pages.
Any required courtesy copy must be labeled “Courtesy Copy” and indicate ECF filing of the original.
Documents filed under a court-ordered confidentiality agreement are exempt from ECF and must be filed in hard copy.
Ex parte settlement or mediation statements under Rule 5.B are exempt from ECF and must be filed in hard copy.
Pro se litigants are exempt from ECF filing, while represented parties must still file electronically even in pro se cases.
Discovery and other non-dispositive letter motions do not require a pre-motion conference.
Letter motions are capped at 1,500 words, double-spaced, including footnotes, excluding attachments.
Responses to letter motions are limited to 1,500 words and must be filed within four days of receipt.
Letter-motion practice requires an opposition within four days and does not permit replies.
Oral argument is not available on letter motions unless the Court specifically orders it.
Requests to seal court documents must be made under Rule 3(C), not by letter motion.
Legal argument must appear in a memorandum of law rather than in affidavits or declarations.
Rule 12 and Rule 56 dispositive motions require a pre-motion letter and a pre-motion conference motion.
Schedule revisions require court approval and must be requested under Rule 1.D.
ECF exhibit attachments must use descriptive titles identifying the document, not generic labels alone.
Support/opposition memoranda are limited to 6,500 words and reply memoranda to 2,500 words, excluding tables of contents and authorities.
Every memorandum must include both a table of contents and a table of authorities.
Memoranda of law must use one-inch margins, double spacing, and 12-point font.
After e-filing, one hard-copy courtesy copy of motion papers should be submitted to Judge Wicks, except dispositive-motion courtesy copies for the District Judge should not go to the Magistrate Judge.