A court's law and motion calendar is an organized schedule that describes the kinds of legal arguments that a judge will hear and allocates an appropriate amount of time to hear them during a given hour, day, week, etc. These calendars are focused on hearing pre-trial motions as well as other legal arguments or requests that do not constitute part of the trial process. A motion to compel an answer to a discovery request, for example, is a matter that could appear on a judge’s law and motion calendar.
[Last updated in June of 2020 by the Wex Definitions Team]