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A decide’s standing orders typically embrace numerous directions to legal professionals about procedural issues; here is an merchandise from p. 4 of the 10-page standing orders from Decide Ana Reyes, newly appointed to the U.S. District Court docket for the District of Columbia; I embrace a few of the previous materials for context:
f. Pre-Movement Convention. If a celebration needs to file a dispositive movement, it should request that the Court docket schedule a pre-motion convention. To so request, the shifting get together shall submit a brief discover by way of ECF, to not exceed six double-spaced pages in size, setting forth the idea for the anticipated movement, together with the authorized requirements and the claims at problem. Different events shall reply by submitting, inside one week, a doc of comparable size setting forth their anticipated responses to the proposed movement. The Court docket will overview and talk about with counsel any anticipated abstract judgment motions on the premotion convention. This requirement shall not apply to incarcerated professional se litigants.
g. Oral Argument.
i. A celebration could embrace a request for oral argument in its movement, opposition, or reply papers and, if this request is granted, counsel might be suggested of the argument date. See LCvR 7(f). See supra ⁋ 6(d) for additional data regarding oral argument.
ii. The Court docket understands that, for causes passing understanding, not all counsel are followers of the Boston Purple Sox. Counsel ought to be conscious, nonetheless, that the Court docket could reference key moments in Purple Sox historical past throughout oral argument. References could embrace: (a) Dave Roberts’s steal; (b) Carlton Fisk’s walk-off homerun; (c) Ted Williams’s ultimate at-bat; and, inter alia, (d) David Ortiz’s “that is our [bleep] metropolis” speech. Any reference to Recreation 6 of the 1986 World Collection is strictly prohibited….
Due to Arthur Spitzer for the pointer.
