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Motions and Memoranda of Law

Citations

If counsel cites to an unpublished opinion, the Court strongly prefers citations to Westlaw. It is not necessary to attach copies of unpublished opinions if they are available on Westlaw. Please attach copies of any cited authorities that are not available on Westlaw. 

Searchable Text

All electronically filed documents shall be made word searchable before being filed on ECF. For any filing of any kind (including exhibits in support of a motion or any Local Rule 56.1 Statement), counsel must run an OCR conversion on it before uploading it onto CM/ECF. To do this in Adobe, go to Tools, Text Recognition, In This File, and select All Pages. If you see the message, “Acrobat could not perform recognition (OCR) on this page because this page contains renderable text,” click “Ignore future errors in this document,” and click OK. The Court strongly encourages counsel to convert any word-processed document into a .pdf document by printing or publishing to .pdf, rather than manually scanning a paper copy into .pdf. 

Document Format

The parties are reminded that the Local Rules concerning page limits, font size, line spacing, and margins for filed documents are not mere suggestions. See LR 5.2. Footnotes are to be used sparingly and only when necessary; footnotes may never be employed as an artifice designed to squeeze more words under the page limit. The Court may strike any filing that does not comply with these requirements.


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