Discovery Court Procedures
(Updated March 18th, 2025)
- Discovery Motions (contested) are being held IN-PERSON, every Wednesday morning from 9:30am to 12:30pm in Courtroom 819, 414 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, Pa 15219.
- IMPORTANT: Effective 3/18/25, specific time slots will no longer be provided for arguments on contested Discovery Motions.
- All parties with contested motions must appear 9:30 AM for arguments on the Wednesday for which they signed up. Arguments will be heard in the order in which they appear on the sign-up sheet.
- The moving party must still sign up in-person on a sign-up sheet for a particular Wednesday. The moving party will list their name, case name, #, type of motion.
- All Motions must have a NOTICE OF PRESENTATION and CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE attached.
CONTESTED MOTIONS
- All contested Discovery Motions will be held IN-PERSON every Wednesday in Courtroom 819, City-County Building, 414 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219. Remote argument will NOT be permitted except for exigent circumstances at the discretion of the Court.
- Any party wishing to schedule a Discovery motion shall appear in Courtroom 819 and place their name/case on the sign-up sheet for argument. The signup sheet for any given Wednesday argument session will be available the Wednesday two weeks prior to argument (i.e. the signup sheet for March 26, 2025 arguments will be available March 12, 2025). The sign-up sheet will be on a table in the back of Courtroom 819.
- The moving party shall provide a hard copy of their motion at the time of sign-up. Reponses to a Contested Motion, if any, shall be provided to the court in hard-copy as well.
- It is the responsibility of the moving party to notify all parties of the date and time of the argument. Your motion MUST have a Notice of Presentation attached with the date, time, and location of the argument as well as a Certificate of Service indicating opposing parties have been served.
- If a motion was initially filed as contested but is later determined to be uncontested prior to the scheduled argument, please notify the court by email at ReganDiscovery@alleghenycourts.us and the order will be signed as uncontested without the need to appear to present the motion.
UNCONTESTED MOTIONS
- You are required to file your motion with the Department of Court Records.
- After your uncontested motion has been filed it should be emailed to ReganDiscovery@alleghenycourts.us for signing. All parties should be copied on this email. Please put in the subject line of the email UNCONTESTED with the case name and docket number; in the body of the email please list all parties in the case and their email addresses, or other contact information if email is not available, and state that the motion is uncontested or consented to. Please provide your proposed order as a separate WORD or PDF Document for electronic signing.
- If a motion is identified as uncontested, the order will be signed and filed without argument being scheduled, no appearance by any party will be necessary. If you have an emergency uncontested motion, please indicate this in the subject line and body of the email and indicate the date by which the order must be signed.