2 verbatim requirements on discovery.
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Unlock free →Judge Franker 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: Source sha256: 12dcd41cbfe0262928eb99b13a6eb1f439317e46bab088362c7067ef6234056c. Corpus categories: DISCOVERY. Published during the 2026-07-24 completeness pass.
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).