Federal Judiciary

General Order 09-07 amending local rules

By Michael C. Smith

Judge Folsom signed General Order 090-07 today, which makes some minor additional changes to the local rules based on comments received since the main rules amendment package was implemented in G.O. 09-06.
Of interest to practitioners, the most important question since "who killed Laura Palmer?" is now resolved - Local Rule CV-7(f) regarding reply and surreply briefs is amended to include cross references to Local Rule CV-6, which provides three extra days for service (similar to FRCP 6(d) but slightly broader).
Local Rule CV-30 was also amended to change the cite to FRCP 30(d)(1) to 30(c)(2) to reflect the new location of the relevant language after the recent style revisions of the FRCPs.

Full post as published by Eastern District of Texas Federal Court Practice on March 26, 2009 (boomark / email).