Eastern District of Virginia Electronic Filing Rules

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Criminal cases

CJA panel attorneys must comply with electronic-filing and eVoucher requirements.

CJA panel attorneys must comply with the requirements of electronic filing and eVoucher.

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Criminal cases

Applies to

Authorization request

Requests for authorization of investigative, expert, and other services must be submitted through the court’s eVoucher system by filing the applicable AUTH or BUDGETAUTH, or as instructed by the Case Budgeting Attorney.

Requests for authorization of funds for investigative, expert, and other services must be submitted using the court’s eVoucher systemby filing an AUTH or BUDGETAUTH as applicable and/or as instructed by the Case Budgeting Attorney.

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Civil cases

Applies to

Standing order

The Clerk must publish the Standing Order on the Court website and file it electronically in current and future Social Security cases.

Let the Clerk publish this Standing Order on the Court's website and file this Standing Order electronically in current and future Social Security cases.

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Applies to

Sealed document

Sealed documents should once again be filed electronically in CM/ECF under the E-Filing procedures in place prior to July 29, 2025, as amended by any future updates to those procedures. Although electronic filing of sealed documents will resume, litigants will no longer be able to access or view such sealed documents by electronic means.

Summary: Sealed documents must be filed electronically in CM/ECF but are not accessible electronically to litigants.

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Criminal cases

Required

Always ?

Applies to

All ?

CJA panel attorneys must comply with the requirements of electronic filing and eVoucher.

Summary: CJA panel attorneys must comply with electronic filing and eVoucher requirements.

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Criminal cases

Requests for authorization of funds for investigative, expert, and other services must be submitted using the court’s eVoucher system by filing an AUTH or BUDGETAUTH as applicable and/or as instructed by the Case Budgeting Attorney. Requests submitted through the eVoucher system are ex parte and will not be disclosed except with the consent of counsel for the defendant or as required by law or court order.

Summary: Funding requests must be submitted via eVoucher system using AUTH or BUDGETAUTH forms; submissions are ex parte and confidential.

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Criminal cases

Applies to

Retroactive worksheet ?

Those worksheets shall be filed as a sealed ECF sent to the counsel of record at the time of sentencing.

Summary: Retroactive worksheets must be filed as sealed ECF.

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Applies to

Hsd ?

ACCORDINGLY, THE COURT FINDS that, pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 5(d) (3) (A) and Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 49(b) (3) (A), good cause exists to require all parties to file certain highly sensitive documents outside of the Court’s electronic filing system.

Summary: Highly Sensitive Documents must be filed outside the Court's electronic filing system.

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Applies to

HSD

a copy of the proposed HSD shall NoT be filed electronically.

Summary: HSD must not be filed electronically.

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Proposed hsd

except that a copy of the proposed HSD shall NOT be filed electronically.

Summary: Proposed HSDs must not be filed electronically.

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Highly sensitive document ?

The motion to seal and to treat a document as an HSD via CM/ECF shall go forward under existing procedures, except that a copy of the proposed HSD shall NOT be filed electronically. Instead, a blank placeholder document shall be attached to the motion in place of the proposed HSD to reserve the docket number.

Summary: The HSD itself must not be filed electronically; a blank placeholder is attached to the motion on CM/ECF to reserve the docket number.

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Highly sensitive document

good cause exists to require all parties to file certain highly sensitive documents outside of the Court's electronic filing system.

Summary: All parties must file HSDs outside the Court's electronic filing system.

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except that a copy of the proposed HSD shall NOT be filed electronically.

Summary: Proposed HSDs must not be filed electronically; they are submitted physically to the Clerk's Office.

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Criminal cases

CJA panel attorneys must comply with the requirements of electronic filing and eVoucher.

Summary: CJA panel attorneys are required to comply with electronic filing and eVoucher requirements.

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Applies to

Sealed document

Sealed documents should once again be filed electronically in CM/ECF under the E-Filing procedures in place prior to July 29, 2025, as amended by any future updates to those procedures.

Summary: Sealed documents must be filed electronically in CM/ECF using prior E-Filing procedures.

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Criminal cases

Applies to

Compensation claim ?

Claims for compensation must be submitted on the appropriate CJA form through the court’s eVoucher system.

Summary: Compensation claims must be submitted on the appropriate CJA form through the court’s eVoucher system.

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Applies to

Highly sensitive documents

require all parties to file certain highly sensitive documents outside of the Court’s electronic filing system.

Summary: Highly sensitive documents must be filed outside the Court's electronic filing system.

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Applies to

Highly sensitive document ?

a copy of the proposed HSD shall NOT be filed electronically. Instead, a blank placeholder document shall be attached to the motion in place of the proposed HSD to reserve the docket number.

Summary: The proposed HSD must not be filed electronically; a blank placeholder is attached to the motion instead.

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Applies to

Proposed hsd

a copy of the proposed HSD shall NOT be filed electronically.

Summary: Proposed HSDs must not be filed electronically.

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Applies to

Sealed document

Sealed documents should once again be filed electronically in CM/ECF under the E-Filing procedures in place prior to July 29, 2025, as amended by any future updates to those procedures. Although electronic filing of sealed documents will resume, litigants will no longer be able to access or view such sealed documents by electronic means.

Summary: Sealed documents must be filed electronically in CM/ECF, but litigants cannot access them electronically.

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Criminal cases

Required

Always ?

Applies to

Compensation claim ?

Claims for compensation must be submitted on the appropriate CJA form through the court's eVoucher system.

Summary: Compensation claims must be submitted via eVoucher system on the appropriate CJA form.

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Applies to

Memorandum

If the memorandum in support of the motion contains highly sensitive information necessary to explain the basis for classification as an HSD, the memorandum may be served on any opposing party and delivered (but not filed via CM/ECF) in printed form to the presiding judge.

Summary: Memorandum containing highly sensitive information may be delivered in printed form, not filed via CM/ECF.