Motion (legal)
Procedural device in United States law / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the American legal procedure. For the proposal in a deliberative body, see Motion (parliamentary procedure).
In United States law, a motion is a procedural device to bring a limited, contested issue before a court for decision.[1] It is a request to the judge (or judges) to make a decision about the case.[1] Motions may be made at any point in administrative, criminal or civil proceedings, although that right is regulated by court rules which vary from place to place. The party requesting the motion is the moving party or movant. The party opposing the motion is the nonmoving party or nonmovant.