King County Superior Court Filing Bundling Requirements

In the e-mailed expert services packet, the proposed order to seal and any proposed protective order must be submitted as separate documents, not combined.

The proposed order to seal and proposed protective order must be separate documents in the e-mailed packet.

Each motion is allotted 1 hour, and cross-motions or additional separately briefed dispositive motions must be scheduled separately — they may not be included as part of a response.

Each motion is allotted 1 hour for argument and ruling. Any cross motion or additional (separately briefed) dispositive motion must also be scheduled with the Court. You may not include those as part of your response to a motion.

Cross-motions and additional separately briefed dispositive motions must be separately scheduled with the Court and may not be included as part of a response to a motion.

Cross-motions or additional (separately briefed) dispositive motions must also be scheduled with the Court. You may not include those as part of your response to a motion.

A motion to shorten time must be submitted as a separate motion while the underlying motion is noted in the regular course.

When a party wishes to request that the court consider a motion on shortened time, the underlying motion must be noted in the regular course, and a separate motion to shorten time submitted as well.

Working copies must not be held back and submitted together with reply briefs; they must be submitted promptly.

DO NOT wait to submit working copies with your reply.

Cross-motions and additional separately briefed dispositive motions may not be bundled into a response and must be scheduled separately, with each motion allotted one hour.

Each motion is allotted 1 hour for argument and ruling. Any cross motion or additional (separately briefed) dispositive motion must also be scheduled with the Court. You may not include those as part of your response to a motion.

The Court prefers that all designations, counter-designations, and objections for one deposition be presented at the same time to avoid confusion or duplication regarding what requires rulings.

Please note that the Court prefers that all designations, counter-designations and objections for one deposition be presented at the same time, to avoid any confusion or duplication regarding what requires rulings.

For cross-motions for summary judgment, parties are strongly urged to stipulate to four sequentially filed briefs (with proposed word counts) rather than six briefs in two parallel sets.

If there will be cross-motions, the parties are strongly urged to agree upon and submit for approval a stipulated briefing schedule of four briefs filed sequentially (opening motion, combined opposition/cross-motion, combined reply/cross-opposition, and cross-reply) rather than six briefs filed in two parallel sets. The parties are also urged to include proposed word counts.

Stipulated motions must be filed separately into the docket and proposed orders presented separately to the Department for review.

To maintain a clear and appropriate record, the motion itself should be filed separately into the docket, and the Parties' proposed order should be presented separately to this Department for review. The proposed orders should comply with the standards set forth above for such submissions.

Significant trial legal determinations should be raised through motions in limine consolidated into a single written submission noted for the Trial Date and handled per Local Civil Rule 7.

If the Parties are aware of any significant legal determinations that will need to be made at Trial (rather than leading up to the Pretrial Conference), they should raise those issues through Motions in Limine. This should take the form of a single written submission noted for consideration on the Trial Date and timely prepared, filed, served, and answered in accordance with the requirements of Local Civil Rule 7. Issues raised in this manner usually will be addressed and resolved at the outset of Trial.

The Court's practice is to hear multiple parties' dispositive motions on the same date for judicial economy.

If multiple parties are requesting a dispositive motion to be heard, it is this Court's practice to hold them on the same date, in the interest of judicial economy.