Pamela Ki Mai Chen

Judge Chen requires parties with video or audio exhibits too large for ECF to contact chambers for submission instructions and file an ECF cover letter describing the evidence.

Video/audio exhibits that are too large to file on ECF may not be submitted via USB or CD. The filing party should contact chambers and will receive instructions for filing such exhibits. The party must also file a cover letter on ECF describing the video/audio evidence submitted to the Court.

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.