E.D. Cal. L.R. 121

(a) Locations. The Clerk of the District Court shall maintain offices at 501 "I"

Street, Sacramento, California 95814, where the records of the United States District

Court sitting in Sacramento shall be kept, and offices at 2500 Tulare Street, Fresno,

California 93721, where the records of the United States District Court sitting in Fresno

shall be kept.

(b) Office Hours. The regular office hours of the Clerk at Sacramento and

Fresno shall be from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. each day except Saturdays, Sundays, legal

holidays, and such other times so ordered by the Chief Judge. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 77;

Fed. R. Crim. P. 56.

(c) Advance Payment of Fees. Except as required by law, or as otherwise

directed by the Court, the Clerk shall not file any paper, issue any process, or render any

other service for which a fee is prescribed by statute or by the Judicial Conference of the

United States unless the fee is prepaid. See 28 U.S.C. § 1914 et seq.

(d) Civil Complaint - Filing Procedures for Attorneys. Complaint filings by

attorneys in civil actions (including prisoner, habeas corpus, in forma pauperis, and

removal) shall be performed electronically. Detailed procedures are prescribed on the

Court's website. See also L.R. 133.

(e) Initial Action Filing Procedures - Death Penalty Habeas Corpus.

Whatever the manner of their filing, death penalty habeas corpus initial filings shall be

assigned to a Judge and, in Sacramento, to a Magistrate Judge, immediately and

communicated to the assigned Judge and Magistrate Judge immediately.

(f) Initial Action Filing Procedures - Miscellaneous Actions in General.

With the sole exception of grand jury proceedings and miscellaneous actions filed by pro

se plaintiffs, all documents submitted for filing in a miscellaneous proceeding, no matter

when the action was originally commenced, shall be filed in accordance with the

provisions governing civil actions in general. Grand jury proceedings should be submitted

for filing by the United States Attorney in original paper format. These documents will be

scanned into .pdf format by the Clerk and, except where authorized to be publicly

available, shall be kept on a secure part of the Court's servers. All grand jury paper

documents shall be returned to the United States Attorney.