REGARDING JUDGE GONZALEZ ROGERS CALENDARS: updated June 22, 2021

NOTICE REGARDING CALENDARS  BEFORE JUDGE YVONNE GONZALEZ ROGERS.

COUNSEL AND PARTIES:

All Case Management Conferences,  Law and Motion and Criminal Status  Conferences 

before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers will be held

 by Zoom Webinar platform. The link is on the Judge’s home page.

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 NOTICE REGARDING CIVIL LAW AND MOTION CALENDARS BEFORE JUDGE YVONNE GONZALEZ ROGERS Updated June 22, 2021

COUNSEL AND PARTES: 

All Law and Motion hearings before

Judge Gonzalez Rogers will be held by Zoom platform or matters will be taken under submission on the papers. Typically, the Court will decide no later than the Friday before the calendar whether argument will be necessary.  The Zoom link is on the Judge’s home page.

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              All Compliance Deadlines (formerly “hearings”) will be addressed on the papers.  No personal appearances will be held.

Requests for Continuances due to complications arising from COVID-19 will be granted upon a sufficient showing of a plan to keep the litigation progressing.  Blanket continuances are not granted nor are requests with a generic reference to the pandemic as the basis for the request.

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THE FOLLOWING ARE UNAVAILABLE DATES:

Monday, 10/4/2021 through Friday 10/8/2021

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CRIMINAL CALENDAR INFORMATION:

ALTERNATING MONDAYS 1PM, 2PM 3PM CLASSROOM C VIDEOCONFERENCES FOR IN CUSTODY DEFENDANTS

WEDNESDAYS VIA ZOOM PLATFORM  AT 2:00PM CRIMINAL STATUS ONLY FOR OUT OF CUSTODY

DEFENDANTS IN CUSTODY AND OUT OF:

SPECIFIED THURSDAYS :IN PERSON AND IN COURTROOM FOR PLEA AND SENTENCINGS ; ADMISSION/DISPOSITIONS

CRIMINAL IN COURTROOM HYBRID CALENDAR:

Thursdays at 9:01AM for In Person change of pleas and Sentencings only. 

 The Court will hold these proceedings sequentially at 9am, 10:30am, 1pm and 2:30pm. However, they will be set on the schedule as 9:01am, 9:02am, 9:03am, and 9:04am until the Court knows whether the in-custody defendants scheduled are, in fact, coming to the courthouse and are not in quarantine.  The final timing will then be set to minimize gaps so that in-custody defendants are not waiting unnecessarily in lock-up.  Out-of-custody defendants will be scheduled after those in-custody.

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Court Schedule: Courtroom 1, 4th Floor

Order of Call is Determined by the Court

Civil Law and Motion via Zoom:  Tuesdays at 2:00pm 

Case Management Conferences via zoom:  Alternating  Mondays at 2:00pm

Pretrial Conferences:  Civil:  Fridays at 9:00am

                                    Criminal: Fridays at 9:30am

Trials are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday:     8:30am-1:30pm Counsel to be present at 8:00am

A Pre-Filing Conference for Summary Judgment Motions is required.

No changes to hearing dates except by signed order of the Court, by a signed stipulation and order or Motion for Administrative Relief per Civil L.R. 7-11 (See Standing Order in Civil Cases, paragraph 3)

CRIMINAL CASES:  Cases set for a change of plea without a plea agreement, counsel are to use the  Application for Permission to Enter Plea of Guilty and Order Form which is on the Court's website under Criminal Forms.

 There is a Supplement to the Application. This form is on the web page for Judge Gonzalez Rogers in her Standing Orders section.

CRIMINAL CASES: In instances of a Change of Plea by a Plea Agreement, a copy of the Plea Agreement needs to be submitted to Chambers ONE WEEK IN ADVANCE  of the hearing.      

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