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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If counsel cites to an unpublished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 It is not necessary to attach copies of unpublished opinions if they are available on Westlaw.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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