Changes to Local Rules Proposed to Become Effective December 1, 2014

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Changes to Local Rules Proposed to Become Effective December 1, 2014

The Court has preliminarily approved the new and amended Local Civil and Criminal Rules that accompany this notice. The proposed effective date for these rules is December 1, 2014.  The proposed new and amended rules are posted on the Court’s website, and include the following: 

Local Civil Rules:

  • 3-1 [Civil Cover Sheet and Other Forms Required at the Time of Filing a New Action]
  • 3-2 [Filing of Initiating Documents]
  • 4-1 [Summons – Presentation for Issuance]
  • 5-3.2 [Service of Documents Filed Electronically]
  • 5-4.2 [Exceptions to Electronic Filing in Civil Cases]
  • 15-1 [Separate Document]
  • 15-4 [Manner of Filing]
  • 17-1 [Minors or Incompetents]
  • 54-2 [Application to Tax Costs Pursuant to F.R.Civ.P. 54(d); Bill of Costs]
  • 54-6 [Objections to Bill of Costs – Response]
  • 83-1.1 [Assignment of Cases]
  • 83-1.3 [Notice of Related Cases]
  • 83-5 [Minors or Incompetents] (renumbered)

Local Criminal Rules:

  • 7-3 [Notice of Complex Case]
  • 7-4 [Notice of Related Criminal Cases]
  • 7-5 [Notice of Related Supervised-Release Case]
  • 50-3 [Related Matters in Criminal Cases]
  • 57-3.2 [Definition (of Complex Criminal Case)]

Members of the public are invited to submit comments on these changes to the rules. Comments may be submitted to <lr_publiccomments@cacd.uscourts.gov> or in hard copy to Terry Nafisi, District Court Executive and Clerk of Court, 312 N. Spring Street, Room G-11, Los Angeles, California 90012. No facsimile transmissions will be considered.

All comments must be submitted no later than September 16, 2014. All timely received comments will be considered by the Court before final adoption of the rules.

Terry Nafisi

District Court Executive

August 15, 2014