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33 verbatim requirements on discovery.
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Unlock free →New Rules eliminate the “at issue” requirement and instead provide that “the failure of the pleadings to be closed will not preclude the court from setting a case for trial.” If your case does not yet have a firm trial period, the Plaintiff is required to immediately notify the Court as soon as the pleadings are closed and the case is at issue to request one. The Court is not notified when a Notice of Readiness for Trial is merely filed. Please note that, if the parties do not follow this requirement and promptly obtain or request a firm Trial Period, upon discovery the Court may Sua Sponte determine the Trial Period and number of days; it behooves parties who wish to choose the month and number of days they want Trial to promptly obtain a firm Trial Period. If any Order contains an error, please simply notify the Division and we will correct it. After three (3) days, your Order will be
Reviewer note: Source sha256: 3bebd619c75f9f753cc83dc1444a6bda7b28ca0c0a967c2e2c46a7db710fa524. 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).