Local Rule 174: APPEARANCE BY VIDEO TELECONFERENCING OR TELEPHONE – CIVIL MATTERS
E.D. Cal. — General rule
RULE 174 (Fed. R. Civ. P. 83)
APPEARANCE BY VIDEO TELECONFERENCING OR TELEPHONE – CIVIL MATTERS
(a) Appearance By Video Conferencing.
(1) Attorneys or pro se parties may request permission from the Court to appear by video conferencing for pre-trial proceedings in all civil matters in lieu of appearing in person.
(2) For settlement conferences and VDRP proceedings, the party representatives and insurance company representatives may also request permission to appear by video conferencing.
Any person appearing by video conferencing shall appear in appropriate attire as if present in court, shall have stable video conferencing, without background audio or visual interferences, and shall have an appropriate background for a Court appearance. Any Judge is free to impose additional requirements for video conferencing as that Judge sees fit.
(b) Appearance By Telephone. The attorneys and pro se parties without access to video teleconferencing may request permission to appear by telephone for the matters described in (a) in lieu of appearing in person.