9th Cir. wants your views on proposed rules!

The Ninth Circuit invites public comment on proposed Circuit Rule changes regarding emergency motions, paper copies, and other miscellaneous rules. Comments are due by July 31, 2019. To view proposed changes, click here.

• The revisions (to Circuit Rule 27-3, Emergency Motions, and Various other miscellaneous Rules) are primarily designed to clarify the requirements for filing emergency motions and eliminate the separate concept of urgent motions, to reduce the number of paper copies of briefs and excerpts of record required by the rules, and to clarify language and mirror existing practice with respect to various other rules. If ultimately approved by the Court, these rules would become effective December 1, 2019.

In other 9th Circuit news, the NYT has this article about a recent 9th Circuit argument and the LA Times has an article about this decision.

And see: Judiciary Creates Public User Group for PACER

The federal Judiciary has created and is seeking members for a public user group to provide advice and feedback on ways to improve its electronic public access services. The Electronic Public Access (EPA) Public User Group membership will be selected from interested applicants who represent the legal sector, media, academia, government agencies, the public, and other entities that use the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system to access federal court records.