Local Rule LR PL P 11: Motions Practice and Court Deadlines
N.D. W.Va. — Civil rule
LR PL P 11. Motions Practice and Court Deadlines.
(a) A party named as a Respondent or Defendant by a pro se prisoner litigant may comply with the Court's order to answer or show cause why a petition, application, complaint or motion to vacate or modify sentence should not be granted by filing a dispositive motion, exhibits and a supporting memorandum of law. The memorandum of law submitted in support of a dispositive motion shall not exceed twenty-five (25) pages.
(b) Unless otherwise ordered by the Court, memoranda and other materials in response to a dispositive motion by the opposing party shall be filed within twenty-one (21) calendar days from the date of service of the motion. Memoranda filed in response to a motion shall not exceed twenty-five (25) pages.
(c) Memoranda in reply to a response filed by the opposing party shall be filed within fourteen (14) calendar days from the date of service of the memorandum in response. Memoranda filed in reply to a response shall not exceed fifteen (15) pages.
(d) Surreply and surrebuttal memoranda may not be filed.
(e) The Court, for good cause shown, may modify any of the time limitations set forth in these Rules or by Court order.
Failure to comply with the page limitations set forth in these Rules will, upon Court order, result in the entire document being stricken from the docket.