Supreme Court Rules - Rule 55 - Rules of Civil Procedure - Rules Governing Civil Procedure in the Circuit Courts - Pleadings, Motions, and Hearings: Times and Places for Hearings to be Established – Use of Telephone or Video Conference

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		Section/Rule:	55.30
Subject:	Rule 55 - Rules of Civil Procedure - Rules Governing Civil Procedure in the Circuit Courts - Pleadings, Motions, and Hearings	Publication / Adopted Date:	January 19, 1973
Topic:	Times and Places for Hearings to be Established – Use of Telephone or Video Conference – Oral Hearing – Submission on Written Statements Without Oral Hearing	Revised / Effective Date:	July 1, 2022

55.30 TIMES AND PLACES FOR HEARINGS TO BE ESTABLISHED – USE OF TELEPHONE OR VIDEO CONFERENCE – ORAL HEARING – SUBMISSION ON WRITTEN STATEMENTS WITHOUT ORAL HEARING

(a) Times and Places. Unless local conditions make it impracticable, each court shall establish regular times and places, at intervals sufficiently frequent for the prompt dispatch of business, at which motions and other matters requiring notice and hearing may be heard and disposed of; but the court at any time or place and on such notice, if any, as it considers reasonable may make orders to advance or hear motions and other matters.

(b) Use of Telephone or Video Conferencing– Oral Hearing. The court may conduct hearings on matters that do not require testimony by telephone or video conferencing. The court may also conduct hearings on matters that require testimony by telephone or video conferencing only by agreement of the parties or by order of the court on good cause shown.

(c) Submission Without Oral Argument. To expedite its business, the court may make provision by rule or order for the submission and determination of motions without oral hearing upon brief written statements of reasons in support and in opposition.

(Adopted Jan. 19, 1973, eff. Sept. 1, 1973. Amended June 24, 1982, eff. Jan. 1, 1983; Nov. 23, 2021, eff. Jul. 1, 2022.)

Committee Note - 1974

This is the same as prior Rule 55.42 with phrase "hearing of motions" substituted for "hearing of actions."

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Rules

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of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

Committee Note - 1983

Paragraph (a) is the same as prior Rule 55.30(a).

Paragraph (b) is new.

Paragraph (c) is the same as prior Rule 55.30(b).