Lane County Circuit Court Adjournment & Extension Requirements

CRITICAL

Unless a stipulation is filed pursuant to subsection (1), a party seeking to postpone or accelerate consideration, including an expedited hearing, must ascertain and state all other parties' positions and whether they wish to respond; without that statement, the request will be denied and considered in the normal course.

Except when a stipulation is filed pursuant to (1) above, a party moving to postpone or accelerate the consideration of civil motions including requests for expedited hearing, shall ascertain the position of all other parties regarding the postponement or acceleration, and shall include a statement of those positions in its motion. The statement shall also indicate whether the other parties wish to respond to the motion to postpone or accelerate. In the absence of such statement, the motion to postpone or accelerate will be denied and the matter considered in the normal course.

CRITICAL

Postponement motions and stipulations must be filed more than one week before trial, although the presiding judge may allow a filing within one week for good cause; requests filed less than 48 hours before the proceeding may not be addressed, and parties must appear if they are not addressed.

All motions for postponement including stipulations must be filed more than one week prior to the trial date. The presiding judge may allow a motion or stipulation for postponement filed within one week of the trial date upon good cause shown. Motions filed less than 48 hours before the proceeding for which rescheduling is requested will be addressed as time allows but may not be addressed. If unaddressed, all parties must appear at the proceeding and the motion may be denied as untimely.

CRITICAL

A motion to continue responding to a UTCR 7.020 notice to dismiss must state the original filing date, service status and any service date and method, whether prior continuance motions were filed, and the case-specific facts needed to establish good cause.

All motions to continue filed in response to a UTCR 7.020 notice to dismiss shall include the date of the original case filing, whether service has been made and, if so, the date and method of service, and whether any previous motions to continue have been filed. This information is in addition to the facts in each case needed to establish good cause for the continuance.

CRITICAL

The parties may continue consideration to a later motion day by filing a written stipulation by the preceding week's Thursday; a motion may be continued only once, and memorandum filing time may not be extended, unless the court orders otherwise.

Upon written stipulation, filed not later than the Thursday of the week preceding the day for consideration, the consideration may be continued to a later motion day. No motion may be continued more than once, nor additional time to file memoranda allowed, unless ordered by the court.

CRITICAL

A motion to postpone or accelerate consideration, including a request for an expedited hearing, must state all other parties’ positions and whether they wish to respond; without that statement, the motion will be denied and the matter considered normally.

(6) A party moving to postpone or accelerate the consideration of criminal motions, including requests for expedited hearing, shall ascertain the position of all other parties regarding the postponement or acceleration and shall include a statement of those positions in its motion. The statement shall also indicate whether the other parties wish to respond to the motion to postpone or accelerate. In the absence of such statement, the motion to postpone or accelerate will be denied and the matter considered in the normal course.

WARNING

The court may allow additional time to submit judgment for good cause.

Judgment must be submitted within 30 days of settlement on the record, or the case will be placed back on the trial docket and will be dismissed unless the court determines there is good cause to allow additional time.

WARNING

If the judge expects the matter to take more than one hour, the judge may reset it for the regular trial docket, subject to the 45-day statutory timeline.

(2) At the time of the hearing, if the judge determines that the matter is expected to exceed one hour, the judge may order the matter to be reset and heard on the regular trial docket, subject to the 45-day statutory timeline.