Supreme Court Rules

First Adopted: January 19, 1973

Most Recently Effective: July 01, 2025

Rule 55 | Rules of Civil Procedure | Rules Governing Civil Procedure in the Circuit Courts | Pleadings, Motions, and Hearings

55.30 | Times and Places for Hearings to be Established – Use of Telephone or Video Conference – Submission on Written Statements Without Oral Hearing

(a) Times and Places. Each court shall establish regular times at a courthouse or court facility, at intervals sufficiently frequent for the prompt dispatch of business, at which the court will hear and dispose of any motions and other matters requiring notice and hearing. The court at any time 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. The court may allow the parties to participate by telephone or video conferencing at hearings on matters that do not require testimony. Only by agreement of the parties or by order of the court on good cause shown may the court allow the parties to participate by telephone or video conferencing at hearings on matters that require testimony.

(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.

Comment

[1] Nothing in this Rule affects a judge's duty to conduct hearings at a courthouse or court facility under Rule 2-2.1 absent exigent circumstances. 


(Adopted January 19, 1973, effective September 1, 1973. Amended June 24, 1982, effective January 1, 1983; amended November 23, 2021, effective July 1, 2022; amended October 1, 2024, effective July 1, 2025.)
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