These 36 rules apply across King County Superior Court. Where this judge's own standing orders above address the same topic, the judge's requirement controls.
Counsel/parties must jointly complete the witness examination estimate form and email it to the bailiff at scott.court@kingcounty.gov as soon as possible.
Each courtroom has a designated email address in the form [judge's last name.court]@kingcounty.gov that counsel (or their staff) must use when communicating with court staff by email.
Commissioners' departments have no individual email addresses; the family law, ex parte, and mental health departments each share a single departmental email address.
Time estimates on the form must be expressed in tenths of hours and the completed form must be totaled.
Trial length estimates must assume a 5-hour trial day and account for witness exams, jury questions in civil cases, opening and closing arguments, voir dire, and motions in limine.
Parties may use the court's form or their own form, provided it includes the requested information.
Counsel must confer to determine cross-examination time estimates for each party's witnesses and jointly prepare the form.
Each additional party must create and complete the witness examination information for that party's witnesses.
Failure to complete the form and disclose witnesses may result in exclusion of witnesses or other sanctions.
The witness examination estimate form must not be filed with the clerk's office; it is submitted to the bailiff by email instead.
Email may not be used to deliver working copies of legal pleadings, including jury instructions, without prior permission of the court.
Exhibits may be submitted digitally or in hardcopy, and the Order from Pretrial Conference in each case specifies which format is ordered.
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Judge Adrienne McCoy serves on the King County Superior Court, Washington's trial court of general jurisdiction for King County, which handles civil, criminal, and family matters.
Published procedures include information on witness time estimates and deposition designations.
Judge Adrienne McCoy's formatting rule includes file format docx. Proposed orders must be submitted in Word format.
The rule identifies required filing content or certificates. Parties must jointly use a single set of marked depositions for the Judge's consideration.
The rule requires proposed order. A proposed order on deposition designations in the specified format must be provided to the Court in Word format at least five court days before trial.
Parties may contact Judge Adrienne McCoy's chambers by email only as allowed by the rule. Hearing requests must be emailed to the bailiff with all parties copied, including the case name and cause number, type of hearing, and dates requested; dispositive motions are typically heard on Fridays.
No. Electronic filing is prohibited for the covered filings. Working copies may not be submitted to the Court via email.
The rule addresses filing timing, filing status, or cure windows. Marked depositions must be provided to the Court at least five court days before trial along with all other pretrial materials.
Deposition designations for trial should be marked electronically if possible and transmitted to the court via e-working copies.
Parties must jointly use a single set of marked depositions for the Judge's consideration.
Moving party must mark its deposition designations with brackets or a distinct highlight color (e.g., yellow).
Opposing party must state objections and their basis in a comment box next to the moving party's designations.
Opposing party must highlight counter-designations in a different color (e.g., green) from the moving party's color.
Moving party must state objections and their basis in a comment box next to the opposing party's counter-designations.
Marked depositions must be provided to the Court at least five court days before trial along with all other pretrial materials.
A proposed order on deposition designations in the specified format must be provided to the Court in Word format at least five court days before trial.
The proposed deposition order must be filed in Word format.
Hearing requests must be emailed to the bailiff with all parties copied, including the case name and cause number, type of hearing, and dates requested; dispositive motions are typically heard on Fridays.
Dispositive motions are typically allotted one hour for hearing, and parties must advise the bailiff when requesting additional time due to multiple parties or motions.
Most motions do not require oral argument; a party requesting it must note the motion with "ORAL ARGUMENT REQUESTED" in the upper right-hand corner of the working papers, and the bailiff will contact the parties to set a mutually acceptable time if the Court agrees.
Parties are encouraged (but not required) to use the Clerk's Office E-Working Copies service.
Proposed orders must be submitted in Word format.
Working copies may not be submitted to the Court via email.
Stipulated and agreed motions must be served, filed, and noted for consideration two judicial days after filing under LCR 7(b)(4)(H).
A working copy of the order for stipulated and agreed motions must be submitted through e-working copies.
A motion to shorten time must be submitted as a separate motion while the underlying motion is noted in the regular course.
Until the court grants a motion to shorten time, all responses and replies must be submitted as though the motion will be considered in the normal course.
All trial memoranda and other trial submissions are due no later than 5 court days before trial under KCLR 40(d)(2).
Parties must contact the clerk by email to obtain information on pre-numbering exhibits.
All pretrial submissions must be made to Judge McCoy via e-working copies.
All parties and counsel must jointly complete the Witness Examination Time Form and submit it with the other pretrial memoranda no later than 5 court days before trial.
Deposition designations and objections must be marked according to Judge McCoy's guidelines.
Deposition designations and objections must be provided to the Court at least 5 days before trial, along with all other pretrial materials.
Counsel and parties must jointly complete the Estimate of Witness Examinations form and email it to the bailiff at mccoy.court@kingcounty.gov as soon as possible.
The Estimate of Witness Examinations form must not be filed with the clerk's office; it is submitted only to the bailiff by email.
Witness time estimates must use tenths of hours, the form must be totaled, and parties should account for 5 hours per trial day plus components like jury questions, opening/closing, voir dire, and motions in limine when estimating trial length.
Counsel must confer to determine cross-examination time estimates for each party's witnesses, and may use the court form or their own format as long as it includes the requested information.
Each additional party must create and complete the witness examination time information for its own witnesses.