Gregory Brian Williams

Judge-specific source

of any objections to demonstratives, witnesses, deposition designations, or other evidence to be presented that trial day. The parties shall attach to the email digital copies of all relevant demonstratives, exhibits and deposition designations with the disputed passages highlighted. By 8:15 a.m., the parties shall provide the Court with two (2) courtesy copies of the…

Judge Williams requires specified trial objections by 6:00 a.m. and two copies for the court by 8:15 a.m. on the day the evidence will be presented.

The parties shall submit any objections by 6:00 a.m. and provide two copies to the Court by 8:15 a.m.

Judge Williams requires counsel to prepare witness binders and provide the court with copies of demonstratives used during trial.

Counsel shall prepare a witness binder for each witness and provide the Court with copies of demonstratives.

In federal district-court civil proceedings, testimony is ordinarily taken in open court; remote contemporaneous testimony requires good cause in compelling circumstances and appropriate safeguards.

For good cause in compelling circumstances and with appropriate safeguards, the court may permit testimony in open court by contemporaneous transmission from a different location.

Federal district courts may not permit courtroom photography or broadcasting during criminal judicial proceedings unless a statute or another federal rule provides an exception.

Except as otherwise provided by a statute or these rules, the court must not permit the taking of photographs in the courtroom during judicial proceedings or the broadcasting of judicial proceedings from the courtroom.