Local Rules for the United States District Court Eastern ...

1 Local Rules of the United States District Court Eastern District OF CALIFORNIA Effective February 1, 2019 2 Local Rules Committee Members Hon. Stanley A. Boone, United States Magistrate Judge, Chair Hon. Edmund F. Brennan, United States Magistrate Judge Ann Taylor Schwing, Esq. Doug Gordon, Esq. Michael Wood, Esq. Keith Holland, Chief Deputy Clerk The Court wishes to acknowledge the generous assistance rendered by Ann Taylor Schwing, Esq., in the preparation of these Local Rules .

2 Comments on the Local Rules may be submitted on the Court s Local Rules page at: . i Eastern District OF CALIFORNIA Local Rules GENERAL Rules Rule Number Title and Contents of Rule Page 100 (Fed. R. Civ. P. 1) TITLE - CONSTRUCTION - NUMBERING .. 1 (a) Title (b) Numbering (c) Construction (d) Applicability (e) Effective Date (f) Electronic Filing Rules 101 (Fed. R. Civ. P. 1) .. 2 102 (Fed. R. Civ. P. 1) SCOPE AND AVAILABILITY OF Local Rules .. 8 (a) Scope (b) Availability of Local Rules (c) Notice After Adoption (d) Procedures Outside the Rules 103 (Fed.)

3 R. Civ. P. 83) POLICY REGARDING WEAPONS IN THE COURTHOUSE AND COURTROOMS .. 9 (a) Prohibition on Unauthorized Weapons (b) Authorization for Weapon Possession (c) Use of Weapons in Evidence 110 (Fed. R. Civ. P. 11) SANCTIONS FOR NONCOMPLIANCE WITH Rules .. 10 120 (Fed. R. Civ. P. 3) SESSIONS OF Court - INTRA District VENUE .. 11 (a) Sacramento and Fresno (b) Other Regular Sessions (c) Other Sessions (d) Commencement of Actions (e) Assignment of Actions (f) Transfer (g) General Duty Judge ii 121 (Fed.

4 R. Civ. P. 77) THE CLERK OF THE District Court .. 12 (a) Locations (b) Office Hours (c) Advance Payment of Fees (d) Civil Complaint - Filing Procedures for Attorneys (e) Initial Action Filing Procedures - Death Penalty Habeas Corpus (f) Initial Action Filing Procedures - Miscellaneous Actions in General 122 (Fed. R. Civ. P. 63) AUTHORITY OF ASSIGNED JUDGES AND MAGISTRATE JUDGES IN EMERGENCIES .. 13 123 (Fed. R. Civ. P. 83) RELATED .. 14 (a) Definition of Related Cases (b) Duties of Counsel (c) Reassignment (d) Refiling (e) Habeas Corpus Petitions (f) Petition for Violation of Probation or Supervised Release 130 (Fed.

5 R. Civ. P. 7) GENERAL FORMAT OF DOCUMENTS .. 16 (a) Electronically-Filed Documents (b) Conventionally-Filed Documents and Courtesy Copies (c) Spacing (d) Numbering 131 (Fed. R. Civ. P. 7) COUNSEL IDENTIFICATION AND SIGNATURES .. 17 (a) Counsel Identification (b) Signatures Generally (c) Attorney Signatures (d) Misuse of Attorney's Electronic Signature (e) Documents Requiring Signatures of Multiple Counsel (f) Non-Attorney s Electronic Signature (g) Misuse of Non-Attorney's Electronic Signature (h) Electronic Signatures on Certain Documents in Criminal Actions iii 132 (Fed.

6 R. Civ. P. 24) NOTICE OF CLAIM OF UNCONSTITUTIONALITY .. 19 (a) Notice of Claim of Unconstitutionality of Federal Law (b) Notice of Claim of Unconstitutionality of State Law 133 (Fed. R. Civ. P. 5) FILING AND CONTENTS OF DOCUMENTS .. 20 (a) Electronic Filing (b) Exceptions (1) Attorney Exceptions (2) Pro Se Party Exception (3) Form of Requests (4) Grand Jury Exception (5) Exception for Certain Other Criminal Documents (c) Controlling Procedures (d) Paper Documents (1) Delivery of Paper Documents to the Clerk (2) Filing of Multiple Copies of Paper Documents (3) Handling of Improper Paper Documents (e) Facsimile Documents (1) Facsimile as Original Document (2) Retention of Actual Original (3)

7 Filing of Actual Original (4) No Direct Fax to Clerk or Chambers (f) Chambers Courtesy Paper Copies (g) Caption and Title (h) Reference to Parties (i) Citations (1) Federal Citations (2) State Citations (3) Unreported, Uncodified Citations (j) Depositions (k) Tables iv 134 (Fed. R. Civ. P. 5) TIME OF (a) Filing Complete (b) Time of Filing (c) Technical Failures (1) Untimely Filings Due to CM/ECF Failure (2) Service Required Despite Court 's Technical Failure (3) Failure at the Sender (d) After-Hours Filed Documents 135 (Fed.)

8 R. Civ. P. 5) SERVICE OF DOCUMENTS DURING ACTION .. 26 (a) Service of Electronic Documents (b) Conventional Service (c) Proof of Service for Paper Documents (d) Service Upon All Parties (e) Service Upon Pro Se Party (f) Service Upon Attorney (g) Attorney Registration for Electronic Filing (1) Consent to Service (2) Court Preference (3) PACER Registration Required (4) Credit Card Payment 136 (Fed. R. Civ. P. 6) [DELETED]..29 137 (Fed. R. Civ. P. 5) REDUCTION OF ORDERS TO WRITING SERVICE OF ORDERS.

9 30 (a) Reduction of Orders to Writing (b) Electronically-Lodged Proposed Orders (c) Documents Requiring Leave of Court (d) Order Processing (e) Routine Orders (f) Service v 138 (Fed. R. Civ. P. 39) FILES AND RECORDS EXHIBITS .. 32 (a)(1) Official Court Record (a)(2) Custody and Withdrawal of the Official Case Record (b) Administrative Records (c)(1) Pretrial/Post-trial Exhibits and Affidavits; Size Guidelines for Electronic Format (c)(2) Scanning Exhibits (c)(3) Retention of Scanned Documents (d) Pretrial/Post-trial Exhibits.

10 Conventional (Paper) Submission (e) Trial Exhibits (f) Custody of Exhibits (g) Withdrawal of Civil Exhibits (h) Withdrawal of Criminal Exhibits (i) Disposition of Unclaimed Exhibits (j) Substitution of Copies (k) Electronic and Mailed Correspondence (l) Submission of Audio and Video Files on Portable Media 140 (Fed. R. Civ. P. ) PRIVACY CONCERNS AND REDACTION .. 35 (Fed. R. Crim. P. ) (a) Privacy in General (b) Order Required for Other Redactions (c) Reference List for Redacted Documents (d) Submission of Unredacted Documents (e) No Sua Sponte Sealing or Redaction (f) Redaction Exceptions 141 (Fed.)