Sanket Jayshukh Bulsara

Judge Specific

Courtroom Technology

Judge Bulsara requires parties planning to use audio-visual equipment at a hearing or trial to arrange a technology walkthrough and equipment test with the Courtroom Deputy sufficiently before trial; civil trial exhibits must also be supplied electronically by the joint-pretrial-order deadline.

The party should contact Judge Bulsara's Courtroom Deputy sufficiently in advance of trial to make the necessary arrangements for a technology walkthrough and to test the equipment. ... By the JPTO deadline, parties must also submit ... an electronic copy of each exhibit sought to be admitted.

Individual Practices for Civil and Criminal Cases of Judge Sanket J. Bulsara ↗

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 ↗

Sanket Jayshukh Bulsara