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E.D.N.Y. Local Civil Rule 1.2
Night Depository
A night depository with an automatic date stamp will be maintained by the clerk of the
Southern District in the Pearl Street Courthouse and by the clerk of the Eastern District
in the Brooklyn and Central Islip Courthouses. After regular business hours, papers for
the district court may be deposited only in the night depository. Those papers will be
considered as having been filed in the district court as of the date stamped thereon,
which will be deemed presumptively correct. Filings that must be made via the
Electronic Case Filing (ECF) system may not be made by using the night depository.
For relevant historical context for this local rule, consult the Appendix of Committee Notes.
History
PRE-2024 COMMITTEE NOTE The Committee believes that it is unnecessary to have a Local Rule dealing with the hours of opening of the Clerk’s Office, which are best set forth in the websites of the respective Courts. Because the Advisory Committee note to the 2009 amendment to Fed. R. Civ. P. 6(a)(4) indicates that a local rule is necessary to authorize the use of night depositories, the Joint Committee recommends the retention of the portion of Local Civil Rule 1.2 dealing with night depositories. 2024 COMMITTEE NOTE The Amendments clarify that depositing papers in a court’s night depository box is not sufficient to satisfy the requirement that filings be made via the Electronic Filing System. The Amendments also identify the Eastern District Courthouse in Central Islip as a location where a night depository is maintained.
Provenance
- Source
- www.nyed.uscourts.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-18
- Edition
- fed-district-2026-09-18
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