2 verbatim requirements published by judge Cynthia L. Cox on discovery disputes.
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Unlock free →General Magistrate Cases will be referred to the General Magistrate pursuant to Administrate 2025-06. All discovery motions should be scheduled with Magistrate Sean Lewis per his procedures: https://www.circuit19.org/judges/magistrate-sean-lewis/
Reviewer note: Page sha256: 230271b67d57d2d28c8ff3d98ce348c5e48f0ff51db398c9b76a3477b0d6ed66. Corpus topic: discovery_disputes. Published during the completeness pass — the 2026-07-24 arbitration verified this circuit but published 14 rules against 6,388 verbatim requirements.
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).