7th Judicial Circuit Court, Scott County, Illinois Pre-Motion Conference Requirements

CRITICAL

Before filing a discovery objection or motion to enforce compliance, the filing party must attempt to resolve the dispute through personal consultation and reasonable efforts, subject to the stated opposing-counsel unavailability or unreasonableness circumstances.

Prior to filing any objection to any requests or filing a motion to enforce compliance with any request, the party so filing is required to file with the objection or motion a certificate that states that counsel have been unable to resolve discovery differences after personal consultation and reasonable attempts to resolve differences have been unable to reach an accord or that opposing counsel has made himself or herself unavailable for personal consultation or was unreasonable in attempts to resolve differences, as required by Supreme Court Rule 201 (k).

WARNING

The judge rules on witness video-appearance motions summarily and without argument.

Motions of this type shall be ruled on summarily by the judge without argument.

INFO

If the assigned judge is absent or unavailable, any judge may consider and rule on a proper emergency motion, but subsequent matters must be heard by the assigned judge.

In the absence or unavailability of the judge assigned to the case, any judge may consider an emergency motion and issue an appropriate order in proper cases; subsequent matters relating to the cause in which the petition is filed shall be heard by the judge assigned to the individual case.