Local Rule LAdR 7: Pleadings and parties
S.D. Ga. — Civil rule
LAdR 7. Pleadings and parties.
(a) Every complaint filed as a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(h) action shall set forth "In Admiralty" following the designation of the Court, in addition to the statement, if any, contained in the body of the complaint pursuant to such rule.
(b) In actions under Supplemental Rules B, C, or D, the plaintiff's attorney or the plaintiff, if he has no attorney, shall include his business telephone number in addition to his address.
(c) Every complaint in Supplemental Rules B and C actions shall state the amount of the debt, damages, or salvage for which the action is brought, and shall include in addition thereto the amount of any claim for unliquidated items claimed, including attorney's fees.
(d) In cases of salvage, the complaint shall also state to the extent known or estimate the value of the hull, cargo, freight and other property salved, the amount claimed, the names of the principal salvors, and that the suit is instituted in their behalf and in behalf of all other persons interested or associated with them. There shall also be attached to the complaint a list of all known salvors and all persons believed entitled to share in the salvage, and also any agreement of consortship available and known to exist among them or any of them, including a copy of any such agreement.
(e) With respect to any admiralty or maritime claim in personam, a verified complaint may contain a prayer for process to attach the defendant's goods and chattels, or credits and effects in the hands of garnishees named in the complaint to the amount sued for, if the defendant shall not be found within the district. Such a complaint shall be accompanied by an affidavit signed by the plaintiff or his attorney that, to the affiant's knowledge, or to the best of his information and belief, the defendant cannot be found within the district, and such affidavit shall set forth the steps taken to ascertain that the defendant could not be found within the district.
When a verified complaint supported by such affidavit also states that the defendant's property expected to be found in the district and sought to be attached or garnished is such as may be removed from the jurisdiction, concealed, or destroyed so as to frustrate jurisdiction, the Clerk shall forthwith issue a summons and process of maritime attachment and garnishment.
In all other instances, process of maritime attachment and garnishment shall issue only upon order of the Court after an ex parte hearing before any United States District Court Judge or Magistrate Judge for this district.