In accordance with the Fifth Amended General Order 20-0012, civil case hearings, bench trials and settlement conferences may be scheduled and conducted by Judge Jantz by remote means. In court hearings are limited to urgent matters that cannot be conducted remotely. All civil jury trials set to begin before August 3, 2020 will be reset by Judge Jantz.
The extensions to civil case deadlines provided under the Third Amended General Order 20-0012 remain in effect. The Fifth Amended General Order does not further extend any of these deadlines.
The Local Rule 5.3(b) requirement that all non-emergency motions be noticed for presentment is suspended. The Court will accept motions, but they cannot be noticed for presentment.
No in person deliveries may be made to any judge’s chambers or to the Clerk’s office. Filings will still be accepted electronically through the CM/ECF system, through the drop-boxes in the lobby of the Dirksen Courthouse during business hours, or through the mail to the U.S. District Court Clerk’s office, 219 South Dearborn Street, 20th Floor, Chicago, Il. 60604.
The Court suspends all courtesy-copy requirements through September 14, 2020.
Please see Fifth Amended General Order 20-0012 for important additional details.
-Uncontested or agreed motions should be so identified in both the title and body of the motion. If you do not hear from the court by email, phone or court order, the motion will be heard as noticed in open court even if agreed or unopposed.
- All motions must state with specificity when and how the movant complied with a meet and confer requirement, such as that in Local Rule 37.2, and when opposed, the opposing party’s position. This good faith effort to resolve or narrow the dispute should be done face to face or by telephone; the mere exchange of emails or letters will not normally be sufficient to comply.
Communications with Chambers: If you have questions about a case assigned to Judge Jantz, please read through the procedures on this website before contacting the courtroom deputy or chambers. If you have read through the procedures and do not have an answer to your question, please contact this Court's courtroom deputy, Rosa Franco, at rosa_franco@ilnd.uscourts.gov. Parties must “CC” counsel for all parties on the email.
If the parties resolve an issue that is scheduled for a hearing or is under consideration by Judge Jantz: As soon as possible, counsel should email Judge Jantz’s courtroom deputy, Rosa Franco, at rosa_franco@ilnd.uscourts.gov. Parties must “CC” counsel for all parties on the email.
Telephone Appearances: As a courtesy, the Court will consider requests for leave to appear telephonically at routine hearings that will not require substantive argument, only when counsel has their office outside the Northern District of Illinois. Counsel may request to appear by telephone by sending an email, with a copy to other counsel, to courtroom deputy Rosa Franco, at rosa_franco@ilnd.uscourts.gov, at least 2 days prior to the hearing. The email request must include a direct telephone number where the attorney can be reached when the case is called. As a courtesy to the other parties and the Court, please refrain from taking the call from your car or on a speakerphone.
Settlement Correspondence: All settlement letters should be sent to: Settlement_Correspondence_Jantz@ilnd.uscourts.gov
Courtesy Copies: are requested for all electronic filings over 10 pages (including exhibits). Courtesy copies should be delivered to Judge Jantz’s courtroom deputy Rosa Franco in Room 1808 within one business day of filing and should include the printed CM/ECF header at the top of every page.
Searchable Filings: All electronic filings (with the exception of exhibits) should be generated by “printing to PDF” from the original word processing file, so that the text of the digital document is searchable. PDFs created by scanning paper documents are not searchable. Therefore, the Court prefers that, if a party has the means to do so, PDFs that are created by scanning paper be OCR’d so that they are also searchable.
