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2 verbatim requirements on discovery.
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Unlock free →Agreed and Proposed Orders shall be submitted to the Court via the 17th Judicial Circuit CMS system. The Court strongly encourages uploading the motion, and a cover letter explaining the circumstances that led to the submission of the order. Alternatively, such information can be provided in the body of the order. No paper proposed orders shall be submitted to the Court.Ex Parte Motions To Compel Discovery should not be submitted to the Court until the motion is docketed by the clerk
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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).