Judge Dawn Rogers
Individual Rules, Standing Orders & Policies
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Adjournments
- First continuances require a showing of good cause and substantial need for delaying the trial setting.
- Agreed continuances may be submitted immediately for ruling without an oral hearing.
- Opposed continuance requests may be set for oral hearing or submission docket.
Request must include
Communication
Clerk
Phone
Clerk
Phone
Court-wideDocument Format Requirements1 rule
All exhibits must be printed, indexed, and placed in a notebook for the Judge. The court reporter will accept exhibits from each party on flash drive.
Document Filing Requirements9 rules
The order of severance must include styling, case number, parties, documents (with exact titles and dates), disposition, and cost responsibility.
- Document
- Order of severance
Must include
- •Case number
Court's wording
The order of severance must include the following information: How you want the case to be styled. Case number, i.e. 2006-32041-A. What parties are to be severed into the severed case. What documents are to be severed into the severed case, (need exact title of document, image number and exact date filed) . State if the severed order disposes of the severed case or will it remain an active case. State who will pay for the cost of the severance.
Default judgments require an affidavit establishing that the defendant is not in active military service.
Court's wording
The federal Servicemembers’ Civil Relief Act (50 U.S.C. App. 521, § 201) requires that before granting a default judgment, state courts first obtain an affidavit that sets forth facts (i.e., not hearsay, and not matters asserted “on information and belief,” etc.) sufficient to show that the defendant against whom a default judgment is sought is not currently active and serving in the United States Armed Forces
All zoom hearings will be heard in 15 minute increments--total. Movants are to include this in the Notice of Oral Hearing.
If agreeing to a summer Monday, the order must include vacation waiver language and be signed by all counsel and pro se parties.
Court's wording
You can agree to any Monday of your choice, if you choose a Monday in the summer months of June, July or August, you must include the language on the order, that everyone agrees to waive their vacation for that two week period, the order needs to be signed by all counsel and prose parties if any in your case.
Discovery motions must include a proposed order enumerating each disputed request/response with a Sustained/Overruled line.
- Document
- Discovery motion
Must include
- •Proposed order
- •Sustained Overruled
Court's wording
With all discovery motions, parties MUST submit a proposed Order, enumerating each discovery request/response in dispute. Next to each discovery request/dispute should be the words: “_____Sustained _____ Overruled”.
The motion for severance must state the basis for the severance.
Be prepare and exchange proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law with all counsel and provide them to the judge. In addition, prepare a proposed form of judgment.
You must file a proposed order with your motion at least 48 hours prior to your submission or oral hearing.
- Document
- Motion
Must include
- •Proposed order
Do not duplicate these items in your motions in limine. Rather, your motion should be limited to other items, and specifically to limine issues that are peculiar to the facts of your case.
Filing & Service rules
Filing Timing and Cure Windows
The proposed order must be filed at least 48 hours before submission or oral hearing.
You must file a proposed order with your motion at least 48 hours prior to your submission or oral hearing.
Civil cases
Page 1 | PROPOSED ORDERS ARE REQUIRED FOR ALL MOTIONS
Motions on the submission docket require 10-day notice; otherwise they will be automatically passed.
Motions placed on a submission docket without the requisite 10-day notice will be automatically passed by the Clerk of the Court.
Civil cases
Page 1 | Submission docket
Objections to deposition excerpts should be made in writing more than 24 hours before the deposition is used at trial.
Excerpts should be reviewed and objections made in writing more than 24 hours before that deposition is to be used at trial.
Civil cases
Page 1 | Trial Procedures
Service and Proof of Service Rules
Deposition excerpts must be provided to opposing counsel the week before trial.
Deposition excerpts must be provided to opposing counsel the week before trial.
Civil cases
Page 1 | Trial Procedures
Adjournment & Extension Requirements
First continuances require a showing of good cause and substantial need for delaying the trial setting.
First continuances may be granted for good cause and must demonstrate substantial need for a delay of the trial setting.
Civil cases
Page 1 | Continuances
Opposed continuance requests may be set for oral hearing or submission docket.
Opposed continuance requests may be set for oral hearing or submission docket.
Civil cases
Page 1 | Continuances
Agreed continuances may be submitted immediately for ruling without an oral hearing.
Agreed continuances may be submitted immediately for ruling without oral hearing.
Civil cases
Page 1 | Continuances
Chambers Communication Rules
To request preferential trial setting, file a motion, set it for oral hearing, and contact the court clerk.
Preferential trial setting request, you must file a motion and set for an oral hearing, please contact the court clerks at (832) 927-1825 or you can email at simone.mills@hcdistrictclerk.com .
Civil cases
Page 1 | Preferential Trial Setting
Parties must submit correspondence explaining why an emergency hearing is needed.
Parties must submit correspondence to the court as to why an emergency hearing is needed. Once the Court has reviewed the correspondence, a decision will be made as to (1) whether it is granted and (2) whether the hearing will be held in-person or via zoom.
Civil cases
Page 1 | EMERGENCY HEARINGS
A non-movant who prefers an oral hearing must confer with the movant and, if no agreement, submit correspondence to the Court.
If a non-movant prefers an oral hearing (either via zoom or in person), the non-movant must confer with the movant on a date/time for an oral hearing that is agreeable to both of them. If no agreement can be made, the non-movant must submit correspondence to the Court explaining why an oral hearing is preferred and that parties were unable to reach an agreement.
Civil cases
Page 1 | Submission docket
Hearings requiring more than 15 minutes will be held in person; contact Simone Mills to schedule.
Any hearings that requires more than 15 minutes will be held in person. The 334th will hold in-person law day dockets for hearings requiring more than 15 minutes. Please contact Simone Mills at (832) 927-1825 or email her at simone.mills@hcdistrictclerk.com to schedule an in-person hearing.
Civil cases
Page 1 | IN-PERSON HEARINGS
Contact the court clerk by phone to schedule an oral hearing.
Please call the court clerk for an oral hearing.
Civil cases
Page 1 | Motions
Emergency motions may be scheduled through the court clerk upon a showing of good cause.
Emergency Motions: May be scheduled through the court clerk with good cause shown.
Civil cases
Page 1 | Emergency Motions
If an order is not signed within 21 days, call or email the clerk to gently remind the court.
If an order for a motion that has been heard or set on the submission docket has not been signed after twenty one (21) days, simply call or email the clerk of court with a gentle reminder. Please call Simone Mills at (832) 927-1825 or send her an email at simone.mills@hcdistrictclerk.com
Civil cases
Page 1 | NOTICE: Following up on rulings