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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Tenaya Scheinman is a judge on the King County Superior Court, Washington's trial court of general jurisdiction for King County.
The judge's procedures are published in a document titled 'scheinman'.
Judge Tenaya Scheinman's formatting rule includes file format docx and proposed order must be in word format. Proposed orders submitted with electronically filed working copies must be in Word format.
The rule requires proposed order. Electronically filed working copies must include a proposed order in Word format.
Parties may contact Judge Tenaya Scheinman's chambers by email only as allowed by the rule. Parties should contact the court by email for the fastest response.
No. Electronic filing is prohibited for the covered filings. Working papers and proposed orders may not be delivered to the Court by email without prior authorization.
Parties should contact the court by email for the fastest response.
Working copies of motions, declarations, and proposed orders should preferably be submitted electronically via the Clerk's e-filing portal, though paper working copies are also permitted under LCR 7(b)(4)(F)(iii).
Working papers and proposed orders may not be delivered to the Court by email without prior authorization.
Electronically filed working copies must include a proposed order in Word format.
Proposed orders submitted with electronically filed working copies must be in Word format.