A choose’s standing orders usually embody varied directions to legal professionals about procedural issues; this is an merchandise from p. 4 of the 10-page standing orders from Choose Ana Reyes, newly appointed to the U.S. District Court docket for the District of Columbia; I embody among the previous materials for context:
f. Pre-Movement Convention. If a celebration needs to file a dispositive movement, it should request that the Court docket schedule a pre-motion convention. To so request, the transferring social gathering shall submit a brief discover by way of ECF, to not exceed six double-spaced pages in size, setting forth the premise for the anticipated movement, together with the authorized requirements and the claims at concern. Different events shall reply by submitting, inside one week, a doc of comparable size setting forth their anticipated responses to the proposed movement. The Court docket will assessment and talk about with counsel any anticipated abstract judgment motions on the premotion convention. This requirement shall not apply to incarcerated professional se litigants.
g. Oral Argument.
i. A celebration might embody a request for oral argument in its movement, opposition, or reply papers and, if this request is granted, counsel can be suggested of the argument date. See LCvR 7(f). See supra ⁋ 6(d) for additional info regarding oral argument.
ii. The Court docket understands that, for causes passing understanding, not all counsel are followers of the Boston Crimson Sox. Counsel ought to be conscious, nevertheless, that the Court docket might reference key moments in Crimson Sox historical past throughout oral argument. References might embody: (a) Dave Roberts’s steal; (b) Carlton Fisk’s walk-off homerun; (c) Ted Williams’s last at-bat; and, inter alia, (d) David Ortiz’s “that is our [bleep] metropolis” speech. Any reference to Recreation 6 of the 1986 World Sequence is strictly prohibited….
Because of Arthur Spitzer for the pointer.