Agreed first continuances may be submitted immediately for ruling without oral hearing. Subsequent continuance requests should be set for oral hearing. The Court Coordinator will telephone counsel with the day and time to appear during the two week docket. Cases generally will have at least one day s notice before being called in for trial. Docket positions are available on this site or by contacting the Court Coordinator.
Parties are to confer and narrow their areas of disagreement in advance of any hearing.
The court is available to hear by telephone non-evidentiary discovery disputes before any motion papers are filed. Any party may request an oral hearing. Any party requesting oral hearing, or requesting that a motion be removed from the submission docket and placed on the oral hearing docket, must give notice to all parties of the hearing. Please remember to call the court and all counsel when any hearing is passed. Appearances by telephone and hearings by teleconference may be arranged through the court clerk.