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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Sandra Widlan is a judge in the King County Superior Court, Washington's trial court of general jurisdiction for King County, serving in a district role.
Practitioners will find this judge's published procedures in the document titled 'widlan'.
Courtesy copies are required only when requested by chambers. Working copy submissions exceeding 500 pages may be delivered on a thumb drive or in hard copy only with prior permission from Judge Widlan's bailiff.
Judge Sandra Widlan's rules set a pre-motion procedure for rule 12. Motions to Dismiss follow the same scheduling requirements as summary judgment motions but must be noted without oral argument under LCR 12(d).
The rule identifies required filing content or certificates. Only summary judgment motions are entitled to oral argument; for any other motion, note it without oral argument and state "ORAL ARGUMENT REQUESTED" on the first page of the motion or opposition to request oral argument.
The rule requires judge name. Working copies must show the judge's name and the date and time of the hearing in the upper right-hand corner of the first page of the motion.
Parties may contact Judge Sandra Widlan's chambers by email only as allowed by the rule. The rule lists email widlan.court@kingcounty.gov. To get a hearing date for a summary judgment motion, email the bailiff at widlan.court@kingcounty.gov copying all counsel and pro se litigants, requesting a date two to three months before the dispositive motion deadline in the case schedule.
Yes. Electronic filing is required for the covered filings. Working copies must be submitted electronically through the Clerk's eFiling Application per LGR 30(b)(4)(A)(iii); submissions over 500 pages may be delivered on a thumb drive or in hard copy only with prior permission from the bailiff, and emailing working copies without prior permission is prohibited.
If no decision on a pending motion has been received within two weeks of the hearing date, parties should email the bailiff at widlan.court@kingcounty.gov.
To get a hearing date for a summary judgment motion, email the bailiff at widlan.court@kingcounty.gov copying all counsel and pro se litigants, requesting a date two to three months before the dispositive motion deadline in the case schedule.
Only summary judgment motions are entitled to oral argument; for any other motion, note it without oral argument and state "ORAL ARGUMENT REQUESTED" on the first page of the motion or opposition to request oral argument.
When submitting pleadings, parties must comply with LCR 7(b)(5)(B)(iv) by highlighting the parts of exhibits on which they place substantial reliance.
Motions to Dismiss follow the same scheduling requirements as summary judgment motions but must be noted without oral argument under LCR 12(d).
Working copies must be submitted electronically through the Clerk's eFiling Application per LGR 30(b)(4)(A)(iii); submissions over 500 pages may be delivered on a thumb drive or in hard copy only with prior permission from the bailiff, and emailing working copies without prior permission is prohibited.
Working copies must show the judge's name and the date and time of the hearing in the upper right-hand corner of the first page of the motion.
Working copy submissions exceeding 500 pages may be delivered on a thumb drive or in hard copy only with prior permission from Judge Widlan's bailiff.