Rule 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. 9/1/1973. Amended June 24, 1982, eff. 1/1/1983; amended Nov. 23, 2021, eff. 7/1/2022.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.