Amendment to Local Rules

Effective September 3, 2019, the Local Rules were amended (see Special Order No. 2-89, available here). The Court repealed L.R. 5.1 (specifying that the delivery of the notice of electronic filing constitutes service on each party who is a registered user of ECF), L.R. 11.1 (dealing with electronic signatures), and L.R. 62.1 (dealing with supersedeas bonds). The Court amended L.R. 7.2 to make it clear that briefs must be on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, with font 12 point or larger, text double spaced (other than for quotations more than two lines long, and headings and footnotes), and margins at least one inch on all four sides. Local Rule 7.4 was amended to make it clear that the Certificate of Interested Persons must be filed not only with an initial responsive pleading, but also a motion filed in lieu of a responsive pleading.