Court Rules

Complete Rules Summary for Judge Thomas M. Cushing

Briefs are limited to 15 pages unless the Court allows otherwise.

All Calendar A email communications to the Court must use the designated email, copy all parties, and are limited to permitted purposes.

Parties may call the Law Clerk at the listed phone number if email is unavailable.

Attorneys and self-represented litigants with email must include email address on appearances, pleadings, and briefs for service under Rule 131(d).

Agreed motions and orders must be submitted via email by 9:30 AM Monday-Thursday or at a case management conference.

Routine motion documents must be served on all parties before entry; notice of motion must include proof of service and draft order.

All routine motion documents must be served on all parties prior to entry of the order.

Contested motions must be set for Monday-Wednesday 9 AM in person, with notice to all parties and copy to court via email.

Reply briefs for 2-615, 2-619, 2-622, and discovery motions require specific leave of court.

Movant must bring courtesy copies to court when all briefs are filed by the motion status date.

Courtesy copies for contested motions must not be submitted until briefing is complete.

Briefs submitted as courtesy copies must be double-spaced, 12-point font, 1-inch margins, double-sided, numbered pages, max 15 pages.

Only one copy of exhibits, pleadings, or depositions required for courtesy copies; depositions must be four pages per page.

Courtesy copies must include briefs, exhibits, and substantive case law relied upon; standard-setting cases not required; all copies double-sided.

Video exhibits for courtesy copies must be on flash drive with no passwords.

Emergency motions must include proposed order and introductory paragraph stating emergency grounds, submitted via email by 9:30 AM.

Emergency motions must be submitted via email by 9:30 AM.

Motions must only be sent or delivered to the Court on the date of presentment.

Settlement petitions for minors, disabled, survival, wrongful death must be emailed unfiled; not filed until approved.

Pre-trial memoranda must be delivered via email unfiled two days before conference, containing required sections.

Pre-trial memoranda must be delivered via email at least two days before the pre-trial conference.

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