CIVIL PROCEDURE

 

Motion Setting:  Motions of 30 minutes or less shall be set on the Judge’s Civil Open Motion Docket by contacting the Case Manager, Vanndaley Rang at 305-295-3643.  The setting of a hearing requires the availability of all counsel.  If you are given several proposed dates for a hearing, you must call the Case Manager back within 48 hours to confirm the setting of the hearing or the dates will be released.  Courtesy copies of the motion and notice of hearing should be emailed to the Case Manager at least one week prior to the scheduled hearing.  Requests for those particular motions and any motions that require more than 30 minutes shall be set through the Judicial Assistant. No case managements shall be set by attorneys, but rather, by the court.

 

Transmission of Proposed Orders:  Judges’ offices in the 16th Circuit are not on-line with the e-portal.  As such, any proposed orders must be emailed in Word format, to the judicial assistant at Raquel.galvan@keyscourts.net.  Any proposed orders must contain email addresses for all parties on the service list. If you submit a proposed order to the court via email, please do not also send a hard copy in some other fashion, i.e., postal service, UPS, or FEDEX.  If the proposed order is mailed, please provide copies to be conformed for all parties, as well as stamped, self-addressed envelopes for all parties.  If you do not receive a signed order within the time frame in which you believe it should have been signed, please DO NOT re-send, as this creates a situation wherein two or more orders may be entered, which will require the court to vacate one or more of them.  If you have not received a conformed copy of the proposed order submitted within 15 days of submission to the court, you may email your inquiry of same to the Judicial Assistant.

 

Voluntary Dismissals:  Any Notice of Voluntary Dismissal filed which requires an Order of Dismissal in order for the Clerk’s office to close the case shall be first filed through the e-portal and then a copy of the notice and proposed order emailed to the judicial assistant.

 

Cancellation of Hearings:  DO NOT CANCEL A HEARING WITHOUT NOTIFICATION AND AGREEMENT OF ALL PARTIES. A Notice of Cancellation MUST be immediately e-filed with the Clerk of Court AND a courtesy copy of said Notice of Cancellation sent to the Judicial Assistant’s e-mail address at Raquel.galvan@keyscourts.net  

 

Notice of Ready for Trial: A notice of ready for trial must be filed and a courtesy copy forwarded to Judge’s assistant.  


Trials:

Attorneys should be prepared to discuss provisions set forth in the pre-trial conference order, which will be provided at the pre-trial conference.  See standard Order Setting Trial attached.


Stipulation for Continuances:

Stipulations for continuances must be executed by the clients.