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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Monica Cary is a judge in the district division of the King County Superior Court, Washington's trial court of general jurisdiction for King County. The court handles a wide range of civil and criminal matters.
Practitioners will find this judge's procedures in the document titled 'cary.'
Courtesy copies are required for all covered filings. Details: delivery not specified, by mail. Deliveries may not be made directly to the courtroom unless arranged with Judge Cary's bailiff; all deliveries must instead be made to the Judges' Mailroom.
Judge Monica Cary's rules set a pre-motion procedure for covered motions. Oral argument is set only after Judge Cary reviews all briefing and determines argument is appropriate, at which point the bailiff contacts the parties to schedule a mutually acceptable time.
The rule identifies required filing content or certificates. In civil cases, all parties and counsel must work together to jointly complete the Witness Examination Time Form.
The rule identifies required filing content or certificates. To request oral argument on a motion, the motion must be noted with "Oral Argument Requested" in the upper right-hand corner.
Parties may contact Judge Monica Cary's chambers by email only as allowed by the rule. Parties must not email Judge Cary directly; all correspondence must go through her bailiff.
Yes. Electronic filing is required for the covered filings. All pre-trial submissions to Judge Cary must be made via e-working copies through KCMS.
The rule addresses filing timing, filing status, or cure windows. Trial memoranda, proposed jury instructions, and other trial submissions are due no later than 7 court days before trial.
Parties must not email Judge Cary directly; all correspondence must go through her bailiff.
For information about individual civil cases, contact the Clerk's Office main information desk at 206-296-9300.
CD copies of hearings require advance notice to the Courtroom Clerk, or may be obtained after the hearing from the Clerk's Office copy center at 206-296-7848, with a list of court-approved transcriptionists available from the Clerk's Office.
All pre-trial submissions to Judge Cary must be made via e-working copies through KCMS.
Contact the Court Clerk by email to obtain information on pre-numbering exhibits.
In civil cases, all parties and counsel must work together to jointly complete the Witness Examination Time Form.
Dispositive motions must be scheduled with Judge Cary's bailiff by email (or by phone if no email access) at least 2 months before the requested hearing date and are generally set Friday mornings; motions for restraining orders, preliminary injunctions, revisions, and class certification hearings are also granted oral argument.
To request oral argument on a motion, the motion must be noted with "Oral Argument Requested" in the upper right-hand corner.
Oral argument is set only after Judge Cary reviews all briefing and determines argument is appropriate, at which point the bailiff contacts the parties to schedule a mutually acceptable time.
Deliveries may not be made directly to the courtroom unless arranged with Judge Cary's bailiff; all deliveries must instead be made to the Judges' Mailroom.
Trial memoranda, proposed jury instructions, and other trial submissions are due no later than 7 court days before trial.
The Witness Examination Time Form must be submitted together with the other pre-trial memoranda no later than 14 court days before trial.
Deposition designations and objections intended for use at trial must be marked according to the court's designated guidelines.
Deposition designations and objections must be provided to the Court at least 7 days before trial, along with other pre-trial materials.