Local Rule Rule 7037-1: DISCOVERY DISPUTES

Rule 7037-1 DISCOVERY DISPUTES A. Objections to Discovery Process. An objection to any interrogatory, deposition, request, or application shall include only that portion that is the subject of the objection. Any such objection shall not extend the time within which the objecting party shall otherwise answer or respond to any discovery request to which it has not objected.

B. Motions To Compel. If a discovery dispute is not resolved, the party initiating discovery shall file and serve a motion to compel an answer, production, designation, or inspection. Only those portions of the interrogatories, depositions, requests for documents, or request applications that are germane to the motion shall be attached. Any party opposing the requested relief shall file only those additional portions of the interrogatories, depositions, requests or applications and the responses to same that are necessary for the Court's consideration of the matter.

C. Failure to Comply with Order. Should a party fail to comply with an order of the Court granting a motion to compel discovery, the party objecting to such failure to comply shall place the matter before the Court by filing and serving a motion for supplementary relief.

D. Consultation among Counsel. All Counsel are required to participate in pre-trial discovery conferences in order to decrease, in every way possible, the filing of unnecessary discovery motions. No motion concerning discovery matters may be filed until counsel make a good faith effort with opposing counsel to resolve the discovery matters in dispute. The Court shall dismiss any motion concerning discovery matters not accompanied by a certificate of counsel that a good faith effort has been made to resolve the discovery matters at issue. The certification shall be filed as an attachment to the motion.