Local Rule 121: THE CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT
E.D. Cal. — General rule
RULE 121 (Fed. R. Civ. P. 77)
THE CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT
(a) Locations. The Clerk of the District Court shall maintain offices at 501 "I" Street, Sacramento, California 95814, where the records of the United States District Court sitting in Sacramento shall be kept, and offices at 2500 Tulare Street, Fresno, California 93721, where the records of the United States District Court sitting in Fresno shall be kept.
(b) Office Hours. The regular office hours of the Clerk at Sacramento and Fresno shall be from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. each day except Saturdays, Sundays, legal holidays, and such other times so ordered by the Chief Judge. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 77; Fed. R. Crim. P. 56.
(c) Advance Payment of Fees. Except as required by law, or as otherwise directed by the Court, the Clerk shall not file any paper, issue any process, or render any other service for which a fee is prescribed by statute or by the Judicial Conference of the United States unless the fee is prepaid. See 28 U.S.C. § 1914 et seq.
(d) Civil Complaint - Filing Procedures for Attorneys. Complaint filings by attorneys in civil actions (including prisoner, habeas corpus, in forma pauperis, and removal) shall be performed electronically. Detailed procedures are prescribed on the Court's website. See also L.R. 133.
(e) Initial Action Filing Procedures - Death Penalty Habeas Corpus. Whatever the manner of their filing, death penalty habeas corpus initial filings shall be assigned to a Judge and, in Sacramento, to a Magistrate Judge, immediately and communicated to the assigned Judge and Magistrate Judge immediately.
(f) Initial Action Filing Procedures - Miscellaneous Actions in General. With the sole exception of grand jury proceedings and miscellaneous actions filed by pro se plaintiffs, all documents submitted for filing in a miscellaneous proceeding, no matter when the action was originally commenced, shall be filed in accordance with the provisions governing civil actions in general. Grand jury proceedings should be submitted for filing by the United States Attorney in original paper format. These documents will be scanned into .pdf format by the Clerk and, except where authorized to be publicly available, shall be kept on a secure part of the Court's servers. All grand jury paper documents shall be returned to the United States Attorney.