Local Rule 47.5: Jury Contact Prohibition
N.D.N.Y. — Civil rule
47.5 Jury Contact Prohibition The following rules apply in connection with contact between attorneys or parties and jurors.
(a) At any time after the Court has called a jury panel from which jurors shall be selected to try cases for a term of Court fixed by the presiding judge or otherwise impaneled, no party or attorney, or anyone associated with the party or the attorney, shall have any communication or contact by any means or manner with any juror until such time as the panel of jurors has been excused and the term of court ended.
(b) This prohibition is designed to prevent all unauthorized contact between attorneys or parties and jurors and does not apply when authorized by the judge while court is in session or when otherwise authorized by the presiding judge.