ORDER

DEBORAH BARNES, Magistrate Judge.

On November 3, 2017, plaintiff filed a motion to compel discovery. (ECF No. 37.) Plaintiff's motion is noticed for hearing before the undersigned on December 1, 2017, pursuant to Local Rule 302(c)(1). However, the parties have not filed the required joint statement.

In this regard, Local Rule 251(a) provides that at least seven days prior to the hearing of a discovery motion, a "Joint Statement re Discovery Disagreement" shall be filed. "All arguments and briefing that would otherwise be included in a memorandum of points and authorities supporting or opposing the motion shall be included in this joint statement, and no separate briefing shall be filed." Local Rule 251(c). If counsel for the moving party is unable, "after a good faith effort, to secure the cooperation of counsel for the opposing party in . . . preparing and executing the required joint statement, counsel for the moving party may file and serve an affidavit so stating. . . ." Local Rule 251(d).

Here, no joint statement has been filed. Instead, on November 22, 2017, plaintiff emailed to the undersigned's courtroom deputy "Plaintiff's portion of the Joint Letter for Plaintiff's Motion to Compel set for December 1, 2017."1 Local Rule 134(a) explains that "[e]mailing a document to the . . . Court . . . shall not constitute `filing' of the document." Moreover, the purported partial joint statement constitutes 38 pages. Joint statements filed before the undersigned shall not exceed twenty-five pages, excluding exhibits, as explained in the undersigned's Standard Information re discovery disputes set forth on the court's web page. See http://www.caed.uscourts.gov/caednew/index.cfm/judges/all-judges/united-states-magistrate-judge-deborah-barnes-db

The hearing of a discovery dispute "may be dropped from the calendar without prejudice if the Joint Statement re Discovery Disagreement" is not filed at least seven days prior to the noticed hearing date. Local Rule 251(a). In light of the parties' failure to cooperate on, and timely file, a joint statement the undersigned will continue the hearing of plaintiff's motion to compel.

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that:

1. The December 1, 2017 hearing of plaintiff's motion to compel (ECF No. 37) is continued to Friday, December 22, 2017, at 10:00 a.m., at the United States District Court, 501 I Street, Sacramento, California, in Courtroom No. 27, before the undersigned; and

2. On or before December 15, 2017, the parties shall file a joint statement that complies with the Local Rules and the undersigned's Standard Information.2