Eric Ross Komitee

Judge Specific

Non Text Exhibits

Judge Komitee directs parties with non-text exhibits that cannot be filed electronically to provide virus-scanned USB drives to the Clerk's Office and chambers, and identify the filing method and scanning device in related ECF papers.

Non-text exhibits that cannot be filed electronically should be submitted on a virus-scanned USB drive to the Clerk's Office (labeled ‘Original’) and to chambers (labeled ‘Courtesy Copy’). Related papers filed on ECF must clearly indicate how the exhibits were filed, and what virus-scanning device was employed.

Judge Eric Komitee Individual Rules and Practices in Criminal Cases ↗

Courtwide

Civil Remote Testimony

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 Rule of Civil Procedure 43(a), Testimony in Open Court ↗

Courtwide

Criminal Recording And Broadcasting

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.

Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 53, Courtroom Photographing and Broadcasting Prohibited ↗