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1 verbatim requirement on discovery.
Eighth Judicial Circuit — DIVISION/CIRCUIT-WIDE - Civil only. Practices change without notice; the court's own published text controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the published source, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. • AO 3.09 (V3) Page ii Standing Case Management Order in Civil Cases Effective: January 20, 2026 5. ADDING NEW PARTIES: Requests for the addition of new parties shall be filed within 180 days of filing the complaint. 6. COMPLETION OF FACT DISCOVERY: Fact discovery shall be completed 75 days prior to the trial date. 7. COMPLETION OF EXPERT DISCOVERY: Expert discovery shall be completed 75 days prior to the trial date. 8. FILING AND SERVICE OF MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT: Motions for summary judgment shall be filed and served a minimum of 90 days prior to the pretrial conference and shall be scheduled for hearing immediately upon filing. 9. FILING AND RESOLUTION OF ALL OBJECTIONS TO PLEADINGS: Objections to pleadings shall be filed and resolved a minimum of 30 days prior to the pretrial conference. 10. FILING AND RESOLUTION OF ALL PRETRIAL MOTIONS: All pretrial motions shall be filed and resolved a minimum of 30 days prior to the pretrial conference. 11. GOOD FAITH CONFERRAL FOR MOTIONS: Prior to filing ANY motion, counsel filing the motion shall confer with opposing counsel in a good faith attempt to resolve the motion. The term “confer” requires a substantive conversation between counsel in person, by telephone, or by video communication technology in a good faith effort to resolve the motion and does not envision an exchange of ultimatums by fax, e-mail, or letter. Counsel who merely attempt to confer have not conferred for purposes of th is Order. The motion shall contain a good faith statement reflecting the date and time of the conference with opposing counsel. A statement that counsel attempted to confer with opposing counsel is insufficient unless the good faith statement details the date and time of at least three attempts to confer that occurred within the one-month period immediately prior to the filing of the motion. Failure to comply with
AO 3.09 (V3) Page ii Standing Case Management Order in Civil Cases Effective: January 20, 2026 5. ADDING NEW PARTIES: Requests for the addition of new parties shall be filed within 180 days of filing the complaint. 6. COMPLETION OF FACT DISCOVERY: Fact discovery shall be completed 75 days prior to the trial date. 7. COMPLETION OF EXPERT DISCOVERY: Expert discovery shall be completed 75 days prior to the trial date. 8. FILING AND SERVICE OF MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT: Motions for summary judgment shall be filed and served a minimum of 90 days prior to the pretrial conference and shall be scheduled for hearing immediately upon filing. 9. FILING AND RESOLUTION OF ALL OBJECTIONS TO PLEADINGS: Objections to pleadings shall be filed and resolved a minimum of 30 days prior to the pretrial conference. 10. FILING AND RESOLUTION OF ALL PRETRIAL MOTIONS: All pretrial motions shall be filed and re
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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).