Local Rule LR47.5: Contact with Jurors
W.D. La. — Civil rule
LR47.5 Contact with Jurors No party or their attorney will, personally or through another person, contact, interview, examine or question any juror or alternate or any relative, friend or associate thereof, except on leave of court granted upon good cause shown. Further:
A. No juror has any obligation to speak to any person about any case and may refuse all interviews or comments;
B. No person may contact a juror after such juror has expressed a desire not to be contacted;
C. No juror or alternate may agree to an interview conducted for the purpose of obtaining evidence of improprieties in the jury's deliberation.
D. Jurors who consent to be interviewed may not disclose any information with respect to: (i) the specific vote of any juror other than the juror being interviewed; or (ii) the deliberations of the jury.