Judge Christopher J. Spataro

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Transcript

The transcript must identify non-documentary and oversized exhibits where they were admitted into evidence.

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Participant contact information

Participants must keep an email address on file and update it; if no email address is available, login instructions are sent through the mail notice system.

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Exhibits

Exhibits may be submitted only with court approval and in the manner the court directs.

Service

Mail to all parties

The Court must notify attorneys of record and unrepresented parties that evidence will be destroyed if not timely retrieved, by mail or as otherwise provided.

Service

Mail

Sending notice to the last current address is sufficient.

An opposing party may serve notices and responses on an unrepresented litigant at any address the litigant provided on a pleading.

The required notice copies must be provided to the Clerk when a civil case is initiated or when additional defendants are added.

The initial answer extension runs for 30 days from filing or ends two days before a scheduled Case Management Conference, whichever occurs first.

The initial answer-enlargement motion must be filed no later than the original answer due date.

Video participants must use an appropriate background, with guidelines that it be uncluttered and not contain distracting or inappropriate imagery.

Non-documentary and oversized exhibits must remain with the trial court during an appeal and must not be sent to the Appellate level Court.

Photographs of exhibits may be included in the volume of documentary exhibits.