RESOLUTION PART RULES

HON.  MARIAN C. DOHERTY

1. All parties or their attorneys are to check in with the clerk upon entering the courtroom. You must provide the clerk with your calendar number and advise the clerk if you wish an adjournment for any reason.

2. All applications for adjournments will be heard by the court when both sides are present.

3. If you are not represented by counsel, you do not have to speak with the other side without the court attorney or judge being present.

4. Defaults will be taken as follows:
9:30 am calendar at 11:00 am
11:00 am calendar at 12:30 pm
2:00 pm calendar at 3:00 pm.

5. Service or a representative of a party other than an attorney may answer in the part on behalf of a party to request an adjournment.

6. Proposed stipulations of settlement must be submitted to the clerk for review by the court. Parties must remain in the courtroom or advise the clerk in which part they can be located. Failure to remain or be located may result in a dismissal, default, or adjournment at the court's discretion.

7. Any non-party who appears for more than an application to adjourn must have written notarized authorization to act on that party's behalf.

8. All parties checking in as required by the aforementioned rules and thereafter leaving the courtroom, and upon failure to return to resolve their respective matters by 11:30 am for 9:30 am cases, 12:45 pm for 11:00 am cases, or 3:30 pm for 2:00 pm cases will either be defaulted or dismissed unless explanation of such absence is advanced.

9. Stipulations in non-payment proceedings must recite amount due, monthly rent and a rent breakdown applying payments to the month in which they are made.