Rule 55.30 - [Effective 7/1/2025] 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. 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.Adopted Jan. 19, 1973, eff. 9/1/1973. Amended June 24, 1982, eff. 1/1/1983; amended Nov. 23, 2021, eff. 7/1/2022; amended Oct. 1, 2024, eff. 7/1/2025.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.
Committee Note - 1974
This is the same as prior Rule 55.42 with phrase "hearing of motions" substituted for "hearing of actions."
Compare: Rules 78 and 83 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.