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2 verbatim requirements published by judge Michael D. Porter on discovery disputes.
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Unlock free →General Magistrate This court refers discovery matters, attorney’s fees motions, and all non dispositive matters to the General Magistrate. You may obtain an order of referral by requesting one from the magistrate’s assistant by email at civil_magistrate@circuit19.org.
Reviewer note: Page sha256: 9e33d7a4bbbb90ea417da8adeafb2dca351b6432e324fa59630e6d75d52b5f4e. 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).