All communications with the Court must be emailed to the Calendar R email address, must copy all parties who have appeared, and are limited to proposed agreed orders, routine or agreed motions, courtesy copies for fully-briefed motions, and court-permitted communications.

For fully-briefed motions pending as of February 1, 2024, the movant must submit a paper courtesy copy set by March 15, 2024, including all briefs, tabbed exhibits, transcripts, orders, case management order, and a cover letter listing trial and other future dates, or the motion may be deemed abandoned.

Routine motions marked agreed may be submitted by email (copying all parties) or at a scheduled case management conference.

At present all parties be prepared to argue the motion; a briefing schedule is not guaranteed, particularly for non-dispositive motions.

For a motion attacking a defensive pleading, the chamber's courtesy copy must include the underlying pleading.

Dismissal orders must strike future court dates in Calendar R only and must not include language striking Courtroom 2005 dates.

Wrongful death, survival, and minor-injury dismissal orders may not be handled as routine or agreed submit, dismissal of such matters goes through Section 4 petitions to approve settlement.

If any party objects to a routine motion, the movant must spindle the motion and put it on for presentment under paragraph 2(b).

Every motion must include a proposed mandatory order; otherwise it will not be ruled on.

Contested motions must be non-submitted through the Odyssey system to obtain a presentment date, unless piggy-backed onto a previously scheduled court date with notice and a courtesy copy.

Piggy-backing a motion requires proper notice to all parties and a courtesy copy to the court.

Contested motions must be scheduled for initial present at least 3 court days in advance.

Parties must not submit courtesy copies of contested-motion briefs until all briefing is complete.

A complete courtesy-copy set must be sent electronically to the Calendar R email and another physical set delivered to Room 2208.

Physical courtesy-copy sets must have tabbed exhibits and must be printed double-sided.

All briefs must be double-spaced, pagan-numbered, typed in 12-point font, and have 1-inch margins.

Briefs are limited to 15 pages for initial/opposition and 7 pages for reply, excluding exhibits, unless leave of court is granted.

Courtecopysets must include the brief and any exhibits.

Case law should not be provided with the courtesy copy unless it is unavailable through any format of LEXIS.

Deposition transcripts in courtesy copies must be in mini-script format, four pages per side.

Parties must submit only one copy of each exhibit, pleading, or deposition with a courtesy-copy set.

Motions to strike briefs, or portions of briefs, are decided together with the underlying motion.

Emergency motions with a proposed order must be submitted by 10:00 AM by email and must include an introductory paragraph stating the grounds for the emergency.

Emergency motions must be submitted no later than 10:00 AM.

The movant filing an emergency motion must have an appearance of record on file.

The movant must provide notice to all other parties when presenting an emergency motion.

The initial case management conference is scheduled 60 days after the Complaint is filed, with notice sent to all parties of record.

Litigants must use the official Motion Calendar Section Case Management Order forms for Category 1 and Category 2 case types.

Attorneys must present all prior case management orders to the judge at every case management conference.

Interim case management conferences must be conducted in person.