Southern District of California Electronic Filing Rules

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Civil cases

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Ex parte motion

Appropriate ex parte motions may be made after first contacting chambers and must ultimately be filed electronically on CM/ECF.

Appropriate ex parte motions may be made at any time after first contacting chambers, but must ultimately be filed electronically on CM/ECF.

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Civil cases

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Transcript request

Transcript requests for proceedings before Judge Rodriguez must be electronically filed. Detailed instructions can be found at https://www.casd.uscourts.gov/attorney/transcript-order.aspx.

Summary: Transcript requests for proceedings before Judge Rodriguez must be filed electronically, per instructions on the court's website.

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Civil cases

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Lodged document

Lodged documents shall not be filed with the Clerk of Court or on the Case Management/Electronic Case Filing ("CM/ECF") system unless the Court directs otherwise.

Summary: Lodged documents must not be filed with the Clerk of Court or on CM/ECF unless the Court directs otherwise.

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Proposed order

Proposed orders or other documents requiring the Judge’s signature must not be filed on the docket.

Summary: Proposed orders and judge-signed documents must not be filed on the ECF docket.

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Final exhibit witness list ?

email a copy of their Final Exhibit and Witness Lists to efile_ohta@casd.uscourts.gov fourteen (14) days before trial.

Summary: Final Exhibit and Witness Lists must be emailed to efile_ohta@casd.uscourts.gov 14 days before trial.

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Jury instructions

includes both the jointly proposed and disputed instructions for the 1) preliminary jury instructions; 2) during trial jury instructions; and 3) final jury instructions to efile_ohta@casd.uscourts.gov by the deadline set by the Court.

Summary: Jointly proposed and disputed preliminary, during trial, and final jury instructions must be submittedto efile_ohta@casd.uscourts.gov by the court-set deadline.

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Criminal cases

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Proposed order

counsel shall email proposed orders on motions directly to the Judge’s official email address, which is efile_Robinson@casd.uscourts.gov, as well as copy the Courtroom Deputy Clerk at Jessica_A_Ortiz@casd.uscourts.gov. Proposed orders should be submitted simultaneously with the accompanying motion in Word format.

Summary: Proposed orders on motions must be emailed to the Judge’s official e-filing email and copied to the Courtroom Deputy Clerk simultaneously with the accompanying motion, in Word format.

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Criminal cases

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Motion to seal

The motion to seal, the proposed sealed document(s), and a proposed order in Word format, should be submitted for review directly to the Judge’s official email address, which is efile_Robinson@casd.uscourts.gov, as well as copy the Courtroom Deputy Clerk at Jessica_A_Ortiz@casd.uscourts.gov.

Summary: Motions to seal, proposed sealed documents, and proposed orders (in Word format) must be emailed to the Judge’s official e-filing email and copied to the Courtroom Deputy Clerk for review.

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Civil cases

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Settlement conference statement and confidential settlement letter ?

Both the Statement and the Letter must be lodged in .pdf format via email to efile_goddard@casd.uscourts.gov (not filed), and must be received no later than 10 calendar days prior to the conference.

Summary: The Settlement Conference Statement and optional Confidential Settlement Letter must be lodged as PDFs by email to the stated address, not filed, and received at least 10 calendar days before the conference.

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Protective order

The parties must email a copy of the proposed protective order in Word format to efile_cabrera@casd.uscourts.gov.

Summary: Parties must email a Word copy of the proposed protective order to efile_cabrera@casd.uscourts.gov.

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Proposed order

All proposed orders should be submitted by email (efile_cabrera@casd.uscourts.gov) in Word format

Summary: Proposed orders must be submitted via email in Word format.

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Sealed document

After filing a motion to seal, the moving party must immediately file the proposed sealed documents in CM/ECF using the “Sealed Lodged Proposed Document” event pursuant to ECF Manual Section 2(j).

Summary: Sealed documents must be filed via ECF using the “Sealed Lodged Proposed Document” event immediately after filing the motion to seal.

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Proposed order

All proposed orders should be submitted by email (efile cabral@casd.uscourts.gov) in Word format and should be free of any attorney names, firm names, document management numbers or insignia in the caption, margins or footer.

Summary: Proposed orders must be submitted by email to chambers in Word format.

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Criminal cases

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Ex parte document

ECF Manual § 2(i) permits all ex parte documents for which no notice is to be provided to opposing parties to be filed in paper format under seal.

Summary: Ex parte documents for which opposing parties receive no notice may be filed in paper format under seal.

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Civil cases

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Settlement proposal exchange ?

The parties should not file or otherwise copy the Court on these exchanges.

Summary: The parties should not file or send the Court copies of their settlement-proposal exchanges.