Katherine Polk Failla at a glance
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Katherine Polk Failla
Judge · U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
Service record and verification
Judicial service and assignments
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York · Judge · Active · March 5, 2013–present · Assignment source ↗
Appointment and verification
- Appointment method
- Presidential appointment with Senate confirmation
- Appointing authority
- Barack Obama
- Source authority
- Federal Judicial Center Biographical Directory
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Biography
Professional career
- Judge, District Court, S.D. New York, 2013-present
- American federal judge serving on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York since March 5, 2013
- Assistant U.S. attorney, Southern District of New York, 2000-2013
- Law clerk, Hon. Joseph E. Irenas, U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, 1993-1994
Education
- Harvard University — J.D. (1993)
- College of William and Mary — B.A. (1990)
Additional information
- chief, Criminal Appeals Unit, 2008-2013
- Nominated: June 25, 2012, by President Barack Obama to replace Judge Denise Cote
- deputy chief, Criminal Appeals Unit, 2004-2008
- Private practice, New York City, 1994-2000
- Date of birth: 1969-01-01
- Birth place: Edison, NJ
Applicable Court Rules & Procedures
Remote appearances
Courtwide
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 Rule of Civil Procedure 43(a), Testimony in Open Court ↗
Recording and broadcasting
Courtwide
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.Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 53, Courtroom Photographing and Broadcasting Prohibited ↗
Published courtroom rules
Judge and named-part rules
Published judge / part rules (62 excerpts)
See document heading and cited passage; do not apply outside the issuing part or proceeding.
Official rules document ↗ · Collected 2026-10-27
Conferences and appearances
A. ECF. In accordance with Local Civil Rule 1.4 and the Electronic Case Filing (“ECF”) Rules and Instructions, counsel are required to register as ECF filers and to enter a notice of appearance in the case promptly on or before the attorney’s first appearance in court or filing in the case. Counsel who file(s) a case-initiating document, such as a complaint, petition, or notice of removal, need not file a separate notice of appearance. Instructions are available on the Court website, at https://nysd.uscourts.gov/electronic- case-filing. Counsel are responsible for updating their contact
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B. Letters. Except as otherwise provided below, communications with the Court should be by letter. Letters should be filed electronically on ECF, with a courtesy copy, clearly marked as such, delivered to the Court via e-mail (Failla_NYSDChambers@
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(i) the caption of the case, including the lead party names and docket number; and (ii) a brief description of the contents of the letter. Parties shall not include substantive communications in the body of the e-mail; such communications shall be included only in the body of the letter. Copies of correspondence between counsel shall not be filed on ECF or otherwise sent to the Court (except as exhibits to an otherwise properly filed document). The courtesy copy of any letter filed on ECF must be an electronic copy of the filed version of the letter and must include the automatically generated ECF header (that is, the text — e.g., “Case 1:19-cv- 01234-KPF Document 100 Filed 1/1/19 Page 1 of 1” — appearing at the top of each page of a document on the ECF system).
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i. By a Pro Se Party. All communications with the Court by a pro se party must be sent to the Pro Se Intake Office, or filed directly on ECF if granted such permission, as discussed in Rule (2)(B)(2) below. You may contact the Pro Se Intake Office at (212) 805-0175 during normal business hours, 8:30am - 5:00pm, Monday – Friday. No documents or filings should be sent directly to Chambers. Copies of correspondence between a pro se party and counsel should not be sent to the Court.
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1. Consent to receive documents by e-mail. Pro se parties who want to receive service of notices and documents by e-mail instead of regular mail, should submit a completed Consent to Electronic Service form, to the Pro Se Intake Office, which is available on the court’s website at: https://nysd.uscourts.gov/forms/consent- electronic-service-pro-se-cases. If a pro se party consents to receive documents electronically, they will no longer receive documents in the mail, and instead, will receive a Notice of Electronic Filing (“NEF”) by e-mail each time a document is filed in their case. Electronic service does not allow a pro se party to electronically file their documents.
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2. Permission for Electronic Case Filing. Once a Complaint has been filed, a pro se party who wants to electronically file their court documents, must submit a written motion that includes information regarding their ability to use a computer and what computer access they have, to the Pro Se Intake Office. A form Motion for Permission for Electronic Case Filing is available on the court’s website at: https://nysd.uscourts.gov/forms/ motion-permission-electronic-case-filing-pro-se-cases. If a pro se party is granted permission to participate in electronic case filing, they must file their documents electronically, they will no longer receive documents in the mail, and instead, will receive a Notice of Electronic Filing (“NEF”) by e-mail each time a document is filed in their case.
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C. Letter Motions. Letter motions may be filed via ECF if they comply with the Local Rules and the SDNY Electronic Case Filing Rules & Instructions. All requests for adjournments, extensions, and pre-motion conferences should be filed as letter motions. Pre- motion submissions are discussed in further detail in Rule 4(A) below. If the letter motion is not on consent, any opposing party should submit a letter setting forth its position, within three business days after the initial letter motion is received. A courtesy copy of each letter motion must also be provided to Chambers via e-mail as outlined in Rule 2(B) above.
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(i) the original due date; (ii) the number of previous requests for adjournment or extension of time; (iii) whether these previous requests were granted or denied; (iv) the reason for the current request; and (v) whether the adversary consents, and, if not, the reasons given by the adversary for refusing to consent. If the 3
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requested adjournment or extension affects any other scheduled dates, a proposed Revised Scheduling Order must be attached. If the request is for an adjournment of a court appearance, absent an emergency, the request shall be made at least 48 hours prior to the scheduled appearance.
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ii. Discovery Disputes. The parties are to follow Local Civil Rule 37.2 with the following modifications: Any party wishing to raise a discovery dispute with the Court must first confer in good faith with the opposing party, in person or by telephone, in an effort to resolve the dispute. If this meet-and-confer process does not resolve the dispute, the party seeking discovery shall promptly file on ECF a letter motion, no longer than three pages, explaining the nature of the dispute and requesting an informal conference. Such a letter motion must include a representation that the meet-and-confer process occurred and was unsuccessful. If the opposing party wishes to respond to the letter, it must submit a responsive letter, not to exceed three pages, within three business days after the request is received. Counsel should seek relief in accordance with these procedures in a timely fashion; if a party waits until near the close of discovery to raise an issue that could have been raised earlier, the party is unlikely to be granted the relief that it seeks, let alone more time for discovery.
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D. Proposed Orders and Stipulations. All stipulations and proposed orders — including emergency applications, with or without preliminary injunctions and temporary restraining orders — should be filed electronically using the court’s ECF system. Parties seeking emergency relief, including preliminary injunctions and temporary restraining orders, shall also notify Chambers by telephone immediately after filing their request for such relief on ECF. For further information, parties are directed to consult the SDNY Electronic Case Filing Rules & Instructions, available at https://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/electronic-case-filing.
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E. Related Cases. After an action has been accepted as related to a prior filing, all future court papers and correspondence must also
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F. Cases Removed from State Court. Counsel for the removing party or parties must, in addition to providing a copy of all process, pleadings, and papers served upon the defendants pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1446(a), provide the Court with a courtesy copy of any pleading filed or served while the case remained in state court.
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Counsel for all parties must file notices of appearance in this Court promptly upon removal.
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H. Telephone Calls. For docketing, scheduling, and calendar matters, call Chambers at (212) 805-0290. Otherwise, telephone calls to Chambers are permitted only for urgent matters.
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i. By a Pro Se Party. Pro se parties are not permitted to telephone Chambers. Pro se parties are directed to contact the Pro Se Intake Office at (212) 805-0175.
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J. Hand Deliveries. Where requested by the Court, hand-delivered mail should be left with the Court Security Officers at the Worth Street entrance of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States District Courthouse at 500 Pearl Street, New York, NY 10007, and may not be brought directly to Chambers. During business hours, however, if the hand-delivered letter is urgent and requires the Court’s immediate attention, it should brought to the Court Security Officers at the Centre Street entrance of the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, New York, NY 10007, and the person making the delivery should ask the Court Security Officers to notify Chambers that an urgent package has arrived that needs to be retrieved by Chambers staff immediately.
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A. Attendance by Principal Trial Counsel. The attorney who will serve as principal trial counsel must appear at all conferences with the Court.
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B. Initial Case Management Conference. With the exception of those categories of cases listed in Local Civil Rule 16.1, the Court will generally schedule a Fed. R. Civ. P. 16(c) conference to take place within three months of the filing of the Complaint. The conference will be scheduled by means of a Notice of Initial Pretrial Conference that is filed on ECF. Plaintiff’s counsel is responsible for distributing the Notice of Initial Pretrial Conference to those parties who have not yet appeared in the case. Pursuant to that Notice, the parties are required to file on ECF, a joint letter and Proposed Civil Case Management Plan and Scheduling Order by Thursday of the week prior to the initial pretrial conference. A courtesy copy of the joint letter and Proposed Civil Case Management Plan and Scheduling Order must also be provided to Chambers via e-mail in PDF format.
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A. Pre-Motion Submissions in Civil Cases. Pre-motion submissions are required for motions to dismiss, motions for summary judgment, motions for judgment on the pleadings, motions for 6
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To request a pre-motion conference for motions to dismiss, motions for summary judgment, motions for judgment on the pleadings, and motions for sanctions, the putative moving party shall file a letter motion, not to exceed three pages, describing the grounds for the proposed motion, and whether the motion is on consent of all parties. If the motion is not on consent, any opposing party should file a letter setting forth its position, not to exceed three pages, within three business days after the request is received. The Court will then determine whether to hold a pre- motion conference in the matter. A courtesy copy of the letter motion and opposition must also be provided to Chambers via e- mail in accordance to Rule 2(B) above.
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i. By a Pro Se Party. Pre-motion submissions are not required from pro se parties. If the pro se party’s adversary files a pre-motion submission, the pro se party may, but is not required to, file a response to the pre-motion submission. Any such response shall be due three business days after the pre-motion submission is received by the pro se party.
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B. Memoranda of Law. The typeface, margins, spacing, and length of motion papers must conform to Local Civil Rule 7.1 (or, in the case of motions for reconsideration, Local Civil Rule 6.3 and Rule 4(C) below). All text must be 12-point type or larger, except for text in footnotes which may be 10-point type; (2) all documents must have at least one-inch margins on all sides; (3) all text must be double- spaced, except for headings, text in footnotes, or block quotations, which may be single-spaced; (4) all memoranda of law are limited to 8,750 words, and reply briefs are limited to 3,500 words (if filed by a party who is not represented by an attorney and handwritten or prepared with a typewriter, briefs in support of and in response to a motion may not exceed 25 pages, and reply briefs may not exceed 10 pages). Memoranda of 3,500 words or more shall contain a table of contents and a table of authorities, neither of which shall count against the word limit. These limits also do not include the caption, any index, signature blocks, or any required 7
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C. Memoranda of Law for Motions for Reconsideration. If filed by an attorney or prepared with a computer, briefs in support of and in response to a motion may not exceed 3,500 words, and reply briefs may not exceed 1,750 words; if filed by a party who is not represented by an attorney and handwritten or prepared with a typewriter, briefs in support of and in response to a motion may not exceed 10 pages, and reply briefs may not exceed five pages.
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D. Courtesy Copies. One courtesy copy of all motion papers, marked as such, shall be mailed or hand-delivered to the Court by the movant at the time the reply is served. All courtesy copies should be double-sided, three-hole-punched, tabbed, and placed in binders.
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G. Motions to Exclude the Testimony of Experts. Pursuant to Rules 702-705 of the Federal Rules of Evidence and the line of cases beginning with Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 579 (1993), motions to exclude testimony of experts must be made by the deadline for dispositive motions and should not be treated as motions in limine.
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H. Pro Se Notices. Parties who file a motion to dismiss, a motion for judgment on the pleadings, or a motion for summary judgment must provide the pro se party with a copy of the notices required under Local Civil Rules 12.1 or 56.2.
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I. Default Judgments. A plaintiff seeking a default judgment must proceed by way of an Order to Show Cause pursuant to the procedure set forth in Attachment A.
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A. Generally Not Available in Non-Jury Cases. Absent good cause, the Court will not have summary judgment practice in a non-jury case.
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B. Courtesy Copy of Deposition Transcript. Except in pro se cases, the parties shall provide the Court with an electronic, text- searchable courtesy copy of any hearing or deposition transcript on which the parties rely, if such a copy is available, unless doing so would be unduly burdensome. Parties should provide these materials on a thumb drive only, not on a CD or DVD and not by e- mail. Where parties rely on deposition testimony, they should not include excerpts of deposition transcripts as exhibits, but rather should include (only once) the entire deposition transcript as an exhibit.
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i. Electronic Copy to Other Parties. Except in pro se cases, the moving party should provide all other parties with an electronic copy, in Microsoft Word format, of the moving 9
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Except in pro se cases, opposing parties must reproduce each entry in the moving party’s 56.1 Statement, and set out the opposing party’s response directly beneath it. The response must state specifically what is admitted and what is disputed, and the basis for any dispute, citing specific portions of the evidentiary record relied upon. The response may go on to make additional factual allegations in paragraphs numbered consecutively to those of the moving party (i.e., they do not begin re-numbering at 1). If additional factual allegations are made by the opposing party, the moving party must file its own responsive 56.1 Statement addressing the additional assertions.
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iv. Statement of Facts. Each memoranda of law must include a statement of facts, and may not simply incorporate by reference the entirety of a party’s 56.1 Statement. For cases concerning confirmation or vacatur of arbitration awards, or disputes regarding insurance coverage, the parties shall file a joint Local Rule 56.1 Statement of Facts as well as a joint set of exhibits along with the movant’s opening brief.
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P. 65(b) are met. As soon as a party files an application to seek a temporary restraining order, he or she must call Chambers at (212) 805-0290 and state clearly whether (i) he or she has notified the
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adversary, and whether the adversary consents to temporary injunctive relief; or (ii) the requirements of Fed. R. Civ. P. 65(b) are satisfied and no notice is necessary. If a party’s adversary has been notified but does not consent to temporary injunctive relief, the party seeking a restraining order must call Chambers with all parties present at a time mutually agreeable to the party and its adversary, so that the Court may have the benefit of advocacy from both sides in deciding whether to grant temporary injunctive relief.
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B. Settlement Agreements. The Court will not retain jurisdiction to enforce confidential settlement agreements. If the parties wish that the Court retain jurisdiction to enforce the agreement, the parties must place the terms of their settlement agreement on the public record. The parties may either provide a copy of the settlement agreement for the Court to endorse or include the terms of their settlement agreement in their stipulation of settlement and dismissal.
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C. Diversity Jurisdiction Cases. Pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 7.1, in any action in which subject matter jurisdiction is founded on diversity of citizenship pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1332, the party asserting the existence of such jurisdiction shall, prior to the Initial Pretrial Conference, file on ECF in accordance with Rule 2(B) above, a letter no longer than three pages explaining the basis for that party’s belief that diversity of citizenship exists. In cases where any party is a corporation, the letter shall state both the place of incorporation and the principal place of business. In cases where any party is a partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, or trust, the letter shall state the citizenship of each of the entity’s members, shareholders, partners, and/or trustees.
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A. Joint Pretrial Order. The Court will set the deadline for the submission of the Joint Pretrial Order at a conference that will follow either the close of discovery or the resolution of dispositive motions. On the date ordered by the Court, the parties shall file 11
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B. Required Pretrial Filings. Each party shall file and serve with the
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i. In both jury and non-jury cases, motions addressing any evidentiary issues or other matters that should be resolved in limine.
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In non-jury cases, where directed by the Court, proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law. The proposed findings of fact should be detailed and should include citations to the proffered trial testimony and exhibits.
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C. Filings in Opposition. Objections to another party’s requests to charge or proposed voir dire questions, oppositions to any motion in limine, and oppositions to any legal argument in a pretrial memorandum, shall be filed within seven days after the filing of the pretrial filings, and reply papers, if any, shall be filed within four days of any opposition, or as specified in the trial scheduling order;
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D. Additional Submissions in Non-Jury Cases. At the time the joint pretrial order is filed, each party shall e-mail to the Court and
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testimony live at the trial. Three business days after submission of such affidavits, counsel for each party shall submit a list of all affiants whom he or she intends to cross- examine at the trial. Only those witnesses who will be cross- examined need to appear at trial. The original signed affidavits should be brought to trial to be marked as exhibits;
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ii. All deposition excerpts which will be offered as substantive evidence, as well as a one-page synopsis of those excerpts for each deposition. Each synopsis shall include page citations to the pertinent pages of the deposition transcripts; and
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E. Courtesy Copies. Two courtesy copies of all documents identified in Rules 7(A), (B)(i-ii), (C), and (D) above should be mailed to Chambers or hand-delivered on the date on which they are to be served or filed. Only one set of documentary exhibits is required.
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Voluminous material may be organized either in binders or manila file folders, but in any event, the courtesy copies shall be separately arranged into two independent sets.
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i. Pretrial Statement. Unless otherwise ordered by the Court, within 30 days of the completion of discovery, a pro se party shall file a concise, written Pretrial Statement. This Statement need take no particular form, but it must contain the following: (i) a statement of the facts the pro se party hopes to prove at trial; (ii) a list of all documents or other physical objects that the pro se party plans to put into evidence at trial; and (iii) a list of the names and addresses of all witnesses the pro se party intends to have testify at trial.
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ii. Pretrial Filings. The pro se party may also file either proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law or a proposed jury charge but is not required to do so. Counsel for any represented party is directed to follow Rules 7(B)-(D).
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A. Redactions Not Requiring Court Approval. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 5.2 describes sensitive information that must be redacted from public court filings without seeking prior permission from the Court. The parties are also referred to the E-Government Act of 2002 and the Southern District’s ECF Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”). There are two categories of information that may be redacted from public court filings without prior permission from the Court: “sensitive information” and information requiring “caution.” Parties should not include in their public filings, unless necessary, the five categories of “sensitive information” (i.e., social security numbers [use the last four digits only], names of minor children [use the initials only], dates of birth [use the year only], financial account numbers [use the last four digits only], and home addresses [use only the City and State]). Parties may also, without prior Court approval, redact from their public filings the six categories of information requiring caution described in the Privacy Policy (i.e., any personal identifying number, medical records [including information regarding treatment and diagnosis], employment history, individual financial information, proprietary or trade secret information, and information regarding an individual’s cooperation with the government).
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B. Redactions Requiring Court Approval. Except for redactions permitted by the previous paragraph, all redactions or sealing of public court filings require Court approval. To be approved, any redaction or sealing of a court filing must be narrowly tailored to serve whatever purpose justifies the redaction or sealing and must be otherwise consistent with the presumption in favor of public access to judicial documents. See, e.g., Lugosch v. Pyramid Co. of Onondaga, 435 F.3d 110, 119-20 (2d Cir. 2006). In general, the parties’ consent or the fact that information is subject to a confidentiality agreement between litigants is not, by itself, a valid 15
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i. Procedures for Filing Documents with Redactions. Any party seeking to file a document with partial redactions should file on ECF a letter motion seeking leave to file the document with those redactions. The letter motion must be filed in public view, must explain the purpose of the redactions and why the redactions are consistent with the standards discussed in Rule 9(B) above, and should not include the confidential information sought to be redacted. Supporting papers must be separately filed electronically and may be filed under seal or redacted only to the extent necessary to safeguard information sought to be redacted. (If, however, the party believes that the letter motion itself should be redacted, the party should include an unredacted copy of the letter motion as an attachment to the e- mail described in Rule 9(B)(ii) below.)
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(a) publicly file the document with the proposed redactions, and (b) electronically file under seal a copy of the unredacted document with the proposed redactions highlighted. Both documents must be electronically filed on ECF and related to the motion.
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ii. E-mailing of Documents to Chambers. At the same time of filing on ECF, the party should e-mail to Chambers (Failla_NYSDChambers@nysd.uscourts.gov) (i) a clean (i.e., unredacted) copy of the document; (ii) a copy of the document highlighting the information that has been redacted in the ECF filing; and (iii) an unredacted copy of the letter motion described in Rule 9(B)(i), should the party also be seeking leave to file that letter motion with redactions.
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i. Sealing Exhibits. Any party seeking leave to file an unsealed or redacted document with a fully sealed exhibit attached thereto should file the main document (in accordance with the procedures above, if the party seeks to do so with redactions) on ECF, accompanied by a single page marked “SEALED” in place of any exhibit that the party seeks leave to file under seal, 16
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regardless of the actual length of such exhibit. The party should simultaneously file a letter motion seeking leave to file in that manner according to the procedure described in Rule 9(B)(i)-(ii) above.
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ii. Sealing Entire Documents. Any party seeking leave to file under seal an entire submission (with or without exhibits) should file on ECF a letter motion seeking leave to file the document under seal.
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The motion must be filed in public view, must explain the particular reasons for seeking to file that information under seal and should not include confidential information sought to be filed under seal. Supporting papers must be separately filed electronically and may be filed under seal or redacted only to the extent necessary to safeguard information sought to be filed under seal.
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The proposed sealed document must be contemporaneously filed under seal on ECF and electronically related to the motion. The summary docket text, but not the sealed document, will be open to public inspection and should not include confidential information sought to be filed under seal.
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Any party unable to comply with the requirement for electronic filing under seal through the ECF system, or who has reason to believe that a particular document should not be electronically filed, must move for leave of the Court to file in the traditional manner, on paper.
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Attorneys’ use of electronic devices (including mobile telephones, personal electronic devices, computers, and printers) within the Courthouse and its environs is governed by the Court’s Standing Order M10-468, available at https://nysd.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/ pdf/standing-order-electronic-devices.pdf. If required by the Standing Order, counsel seeking to bring a device into the Courthouse shall submit a copy of the Electronic Devices General Purpose Form, available at https://nysd.uscourts.gov/forms/fillable-form-electronic-devices- general-purpose, to the Court by e-mail at least 72 hours prior to the relevant trial or hearing. Untimely requests may be denied on that basis alone. If permitted by the Standing Order, mobile telephones are permitted inside the Courtroom, but they must be kept turned off at all
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4. Once electronically filed, a courtesy copy of the Proposed Order to Show Cause and the supporting papers must also be provided to Chambers via e-mail.
Source page 20Shared court rules
SDNY and EDNY — Joint Local Civil and Criminal Rules
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
Federal district-court proceedings only. Civil and criminal sections have distinct scope and district-specific exceptions. Not Bankruptcy Court rules.
Official source ↗ · Collected 2026-10-27Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, December 1, 2025
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
Civil actions in United States District Courts; Rule 81 exceptions apply. Section-specific exceptions, waivers, later amendments and case orders remain applicable. This is a source excerpt, not an exhaustive statement of the rule.
Official source ↗ · Collected 2026-10-27Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, December 1, 2025
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
Criminal proceedings in United States District Courts; this conservative mapping does not distribute appellate-specific provisions to appellate judges. Section-specific exceptions, waivers, later amendments and case orders remain applicable. This is a source excerpt, not an exhaustive statement of the rule.
Official source ↗ · Collected 2026-10-27Sources
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Federal Judicial Center biography
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View CourtListener judicial biographical directory ↗Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 43(a), Testimony in Open Court
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