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# David Eames

Idaho Magistrate Division, Judicial District 3 · Magistrate Judge

## Profile

- Court: Idaho Magistrate Division, Judicial District 3
- State: Idaho
- Role: Magistrate Judge
- Service status: active
- Last verified: 2026-07-27

## Summary

Official statewide and applicable court procedural guidance applies to this judge.

## Biography

### Professional career

- David B. Eames is the Idaho Magistrate Judge for District 3, Washington County, serving from 2025 through 2028, and presiding over a range of civil and family cases in the Washington County Magistrate Court
- Licensed to practice law in Idaho in 2003
- David B. Eames is appointed by the 3rd Judicial District Magistrates Commission to serve as a magistrate judge for the Washington County Magistrate Court in Idaho

### Education



### Additional information

- David B. Eames is a magistrate for Washington County in Idaho, appointed by the Third Judicial District Magistrates Commission.
- Before appointment he was a deputy prosecuting attorney in Canyon County.
- Before joining the bench, Eames held the role of a deputy prosecuting attorney for the Canyon County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.

## Before you appear

- Read the judge-specific standing order first when one is listed.
- Check the docket and case orders for requirements that supersede broader guidance.
- Confirm current remote-access and courtroom technology arrangements before the proceeding.

## Courtroom Rules

### electronic exhibit format

Scope: statewide

Idaho's statewide electronic-filing rule generally requires text-searchable PDF or PDF/A submissions and a 50 MB per-document limit; scanned-image attachments and exhibits may use standard PDF and are not rejected for the usual text-searchability format requirement.

Evidence excerpt: A document ... submitted electronically to the court must be in the form of a text-searchable Portable Document Format (PDF) or a text-searchable Portable Document Format/A (PDF/A) file ... and not exceed 50 megabytes. A document that is an attachment or exhibit ... may be in standard PDF format and need not be text searchable.

[Idaho Rules for Electronic Filing and Service, Rule 6](https://isc.idaho.gov/rules-procedure/irefs)
Source checked: 2026-07-27


## Sources

- [Official profile](https://isc.idaho.gov/about-the-courts/judicial-directory)
- [Official roster](https://isc.idaho.gov/about-the-courts/judicial-directory)
- [Idaho Supreme Court official judicial roster](https://isc.idaho.gov/about-the-courts/judicial-directory)
- [Idaho Rules for Electronic Filing and Service, Rule 6](https://isc.idaho.gov/rules-procedure/irefs)
- [current_membership](https://isc.idaho.gov/about-the-courts/judicial-directory)

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## Published courtroom rules

### Shared court rules

- [Idaho Rules for Electronic Filing and Service, Rule 6](https://knowjudges.com/courtroom-rules/national-shared-set-0c38e11cda2478da65cd7ff5) — Scope is limited to the court class in the source claim.  Shared court context only; case-type restrictions, exceptions, later amendments and case orders apply. This is not a personal preference or a complete rules inventory. [Official source](https://isc.idaho.gov/rules-procedure/irefs). Collected 2026-07-27.