Robert Rees Summerhays

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9. Please contact Judge Summerhays’ Courtroom Deputy, Chrissy Craig, should you need any assistance on exhibit submission or Courtroom Technology Training at (337)593-5021 or email Chrissy_Craig@lawd.uscourts.gov. *Please use an alpha-numeric naming system when saving your exhibits to the flash drive.

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.