2 verbatim requirements on discovery in COREY AMANDA CAWTHON's division.
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Unlock free →Judge Cawthon participates in the online e-order system (CMS). This means that if you are submitting an Agreed Order, Ex-Parte Order Compelling Discovery, or an Order Invoking the Rules of Civil Procedure, and all parties are represented by an attorney, you must submit these through the online e-order system. Agreed Orders must be titled as such and must include language in the body of the Order indicating the Order has been submitted pursuant to agreement of the parties. Additionally, please note that you must use the approved form (included in these divisional instructions) when submitting an Order Invoking the Rules of Civil Procedure.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 2c03ef7a487e13e36dd966990ac523542c16c9cf6dda948623dd70647583e7df. Corpus topic: DISCOVERY. Published during the completeness pass — the audit found 2,753 verbatim requirements against 123 published rules. GOOGLE DOCS VEIN: 102 of the Seventeenth Circuit's 106 division procedure documents are published as Google Docs (docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-...), not as PDFs on the court's own host. Two consecutive fetches of the same Google Doc URL return DIFFERENT bytes — Google injects per-request session config — so the document_sha256 recorded here pins one render, not a stable identity, and content-hash change detection does not work on this vein. Re-verified live 2026-07-24 by text presence instead: six sampled documents still carried 100%, 100%, 100%, 91%, 100% and 100% of their published requirements.
Every party setting a hearing in Division AO must first confer in a good-faith effort to resolve the matter, and every hearing notice must include a certificate of that conferral. The division instructions state that conferral requires counsel to actually talk.
Under the 2025 case-management amendments, a movant must confer with the opposing party in a good-faith effort to resolve a nondispositive motion before filing it, and must include a certificate of conferral.
CV-E layers a second conferral on top of Rule 1.202: certify conferral before filing the motion (Exhibit A) and again before scheduling it for hearing (Exhibit B).