Joan Marie Azrack

Judge Specific

Digital Evidence

Judge Azrack directs parties with voluminous or non-text exhibits that are impracticable to file electronically to contact Chambers before filing; courtesy-copy exhibits and appendices must be clearly labeled and tabbed.

Parties filing voluminous or non-text exhibits that are impracticable to file electronically should contact Chambers prior to filing. ... Any exhibits or appendices should be clearly labeled and tabbed in the courtesy copy.

Individual Rules of District Judge Joan M. Azrack ↗

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 ↗