Local Rules - U.S. District Court
ADOPTION OF SUPREME COURT RULE 36 - ESTABLISHING STANDARD PAPER SIZE FOR TENNESSEE STATE COURTS
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(a) All pleadings, motions, and other papers presented for filing with the clerk or intended for the use of the court shall be upon letter size (8 1/2 x 11 inches) opaque, unglazed white paper,. . .
(e) This rule shall become effective on July 1, 2003, and shall apply to all state courts, including, without limitation: general sessions court, juvenile court, probate court, circuit court, chancery court, criminal court and the respective appellate courts. . . .
PUBLIC NOTICE OF TWO CHANGES TO THE LOCAL RULES OF THE UNITED STATE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE
Notice is given that pursuant to the rule-making authority granted the court by 28 U.S.C., section 2071, and in conformance with the amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure which became effective December 1, 2000, Local Rule 26.1(b) is hereby deleted in its entirety.
Local Rule 83.3(d)(1) is amended by inserting language as follows:
When a judge has been assigned a case in accordance with these rules and is of the opinion that he or she should not preside in the case, unless the recusing judge determines to return the case to the Clerk for random reassignment, such judge may, by mutual consent with one of the other judges of this district, transfer the case. The judge to whom the case is transferred may select a comparable case assigned to him or her and transfer it to the judge from whom the transferred case was received. |
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