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1 verbatim requirement on discovery.
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Unlock free →Judge McHugh participates in the e-orders program. This means that if you are submitting any AGREED ORDER, EX-PARTE ORDER COMPELLING DISCOVERY, ORDER INVOKING THE RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, etc., and all parties are represented by attorneys, you MUST submit these through the online e-order system..
Reviewer note: Source sha256: c6e1361ff0d41cdd151a53906018395a64466f124d14b96ff02f3d000ba17a3e. 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).