Pamela Pepper

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8 document camera and video screens in the jury box and on counsel tables, etc. If you plan to use demonstrative exhibits or present evidence electronically at a hearing or trial, please contact my courtroom deputy, Justin Dreikosen, to schedule a time for you to come in and test the equipment in the courtroom to…

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.