2 verbatim requirements on discovery in TABITHA B. EVES's division.
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Unlock free →The Court will not authorize motions to be set for hearing “to compel dates.” If the opposing party does not provide reasonable dates within five business days of the request, you may unilaterally set the deposition. The burden will then be on the opposing party to move for protective order and explain why no reasonable dates were provided
Reviewer note: Document sha256: ead0c9a818bc510e56f19fc9174a121062a88a8113f68929016bc0f9241e32a9. Corpus topic: DISCOVERY. Published during the completeness pass — the audit found 2,753 verbatim requirements against 123 published rules.
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).