Uniform Local Rules of the United States District Courts for the Northern District and the Southern District of Mississippi and the Alternative Dispute Resolution Plan for the Northern District and the Southern District of Mississippi (December 1, 2000)
Standing Order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi (September 7, 1998)
Standing Order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi Regarding Social Security Cases (August 28, 1991)
Standing Order of the United States District Court for the Southern
District of Mississippi Regarding RICO Cases
(July 13, 1998)
Effective December 1, 2000
(A) Differentiated Case Management
(B) Judicial Officer
(C) Court
Rule 1.3 Tracks and Assignment of Civil Actions
(A) Expedited
(B) Standard
(C) Complex
(D) Administrative
(E) Mass Tort
(F) Suspension Track
Rule 1.4 Case Evaluation Criteria
(A) Expedited
(B) Standard
(C) Complex
(D) Administrative
(E) Mass Torts
(F) Suspension
(A) Copies of Pleadings
(1) In-state private party cases
(2) Service on Mississippi Secretary of State or Mississippi Insurance Commissioner
(3) United States Cases
(B) Civil Cover Sheet
(C) Filing Fees
Rule 5.1 Non-filing of Pre-discovery Disclosures And Discovery Materials.
(A) Pre-discovery disclosures
(B) Depositions
(C) Discovery
(D) Filing in relation to Discovery/Disclosure Motions
(A) Trial Briefs
in Support of Motions
(B) Motion Briefs
(C) Citation of Authorities
(D) Submission of Briefs and Memoranda of Authority
(A) Applicability
(B) Filing; Proposed Orders.
(C) Responses.
(D) Memoranda; Documents Required with Motions;
Time Limits; Failure to Submit Required Documents;
Motions not Reurged.
(E) Length of Memoranda.
(F) Notice and Hearings.
(G) Priority.
(H) Urgent or Necessitous Matters.
(I) Service.
(J) Court Reporters.
(K) Untimely Motions.
Rule 9.1 Orders and Judgments.
Rule 10.1 Corporate Disclosure Statement
Rule 11.1 Signatures Required on Pleadings, Motions, And Other Papers
Rule 11.2 Sanctions--Unreasonable Delays
Rule 11.3 Sanctions--frivolous Motions or Opposition
Rule 16.1 Case Management Conference
(A) Court Order
(B) Early Assessment and Pretrial Case Management(1) Early Meeting of Counsel/Attorney Conference
(2) Removed Civil Actions
(3) Transferred Civil Actions
(4) Immunity Defense
(5) Civil Asset Forfeiture Actions
(6) Submission of Written Proposed Case Management Plan and Scheduling Order
(7) Time of Disclosures
(8) Case Management Conference
(9) Case Management Order
(C) Settlement Conference.
(D) Cases Excluded from Scheduling and Disclosure Requirements
(E) Alternative Dispute Resolution Programs
Rule 16.2 Final Pretrial Conferences And Pretrial Orders
(A) Cases in Which Conference to be Held; Scheduling; Role of Magistrate Judge.
(B) When Conference May be Dispensed With; Pretrial Order Still Required; Contents
(C) Submission by Magistrate Judge to Trial Judge.
(D) Duty of Counsel to Confer; Exhibits; Matters to be Considered at Conference; Sanctions.
(E) Depositions.
(F) Procedure at Final Pretrial Conference.(1) Counsel Shall Attend; Sanctions.
(2) Preparation for the Conference.
(3) Preparation of the Pretrial Order.
(4) Additional Conferences
(G) Effect of Pretrial Order
(H) Conference Scheduling; Conflicting Settings
(I) Discretion of District Judge.
Rule 16.3 Conflicting Settings And Requests For Continuances
(A) Pre-Discovery Disclosure of Core Information/Other Cooperative Discovery Devices
(1) Initial Disclosure.
(2) Expert Witnesses.
(3) Failure to Disclose.
(4) Discovery Prior to the Case Management Conference.
(5) Supplementation of Disclosures.
(6) Completion of Discovery.
(B) Setting Discovery Deadlines.
(C) Attorney/Party Signatures for Requests to Extend Discovery Deadlines.
(D) Limits on the Use of Discovery.
(1) Expedited
(2) Standard
(3) Complex.
(4) Administrative
(5) Mass torts(E) Motion Practice in the Context of Discovery
Rule 30.1 Videotaped Depositions
(A) Written Transcript Required
(B) Time and Place Prescribed
(C) Certificate of Correctness and Completeness
(D) All Persons to be Shown
(E) Scope of Scene Viewed
(F) Witness's Approval Not Required
(G) Availability to Parties
(H) Editing
Rule 30.2 Depositions of Experts
Rule 35.1 Physical And/or Mental Examinations
Rule 37.1 Discovery Violations
(A) Good Faith Certificate
(B) Motions Must Quote Disputed Language
(C) Uniform Local Rule 26.1 Violation Order.
Rule 37.2 Motion to Limit or Quash a Deposition
(A) When Due; How Presented
(B) Within Discretion of Court
(C) Removed Actions; Law and Equity Actions
Rule 42.1 Consolidation of Actions
(A) Witnesses' Attendance and Mileage Fees
(B) Incarcerated Witness
Rule 51.1 Requests For Jury Instructions
(A) When Due
(B) How Presented
(C) Automated Formats
(D) Standard Instructions Not Required
(A) Postponement in Advance of Trial
(B) Postponement After the Case is Called
Rule 54.2 Taxation of Costs And Motions For Attorneys' Fees.
(A) Bill of Costs.
(B) Motions for Attorneys' Fees.
(C) Proceedings after Appeal.
Rule 72.1 Authority of a Magistrate Judge
(A) Special Designation to Exercise Consent Authority
(B) Special Designation to Conduct Misdemeanor Trials
Rule 72.2 Procedures Before a Magistrate Judge--Supplemental Provisions
(A) Matters which a Magistrate Judge is Empowered to Hear and Determine.
(B) Effect of Ruling by a Magistrate Judge
(C) Response to Objection to a Magistrate Judge's Order
(D) Matters Upon Which a Magistrate Judge is Required to Submit a Report and Recommendations
(E) Rule Not Applicable to Consent Cases
Rule 72.3 Assignments to a Magistrate Judge
Rule 72.4 Notifying Parties of a Non-automatic Assignment
Rule 72.5 Referral to Magistrate Judge.
Rule 72.6 Hearing of Nondispositive Motions When Assigned Magistrate Judge Is Unavailable
Rule 73.1 Procedures Before a Magistrate Judge--Civil Consent Cases
(A) Notice of Consent Option
(D) Reference of Civil Consent Action
(B) Execution of Consent
(C) Time for Consent
(E) Party Added After Consent Occurs
(A) Court Always Open
(B) Sessions
Rule 83.1 Attorneys: Admission And Conduct.
(A) Admission of Attorneys
(1) General Admission
(2) Admission by Comity
(3) Attorneys Representing the United States
(B) Appearances
(1) Requirement of Local Counsel
(2) Designation of Lead Counsel
(3) Withdrawal by Attorneys
(4) Communication with Jurors(C) Discipline and Reinstatement
(1) Original Discipline
(2) Reciprocal Discipline.
(3) Reinstatement.(D) Attorney Admission Fee; Presentation to Any District or Magistrate Judge
Rule 83.2 Assignment of Judges.
(A) Custody and Disposition of Exhibits.
(B) Custody of Sensitive Exhibits
Rule 83.4 Photographs And Broadcasting
(A) Photography and Broadcasting Prohibited
(B) Exceptions
Rule 83.5 Mississippi Rules of Professional Conduct
Rule 83.6 Sealing of Court Records
(A) Court Records Presumptively in Public Domain
(B) When and How Sealed; Redactions
(C) Criminal Matters; Unsealing
(D) Duration of Sealing
Rule 83.7 Alternative Dispute Resolution.
(A) Introduction and Purpose
(B) Administration of ADR Plan
(C) Mediation
(D) Cases Appropriate for Referral to Mediation.(1) Discretion of Court.
(2) Actions Exempted from Consideration for ADR.(E) Referral Procedure
(F) Pre-mediation Documents.
(G) Authority to Settle(1) Appearance at Mediation.
(2) Attendance of Parties.(H) Sanctions
(I) Panels of Neutrals(1) Court-Appointed Federal Panels
(2) Use of Non-Panel Neutrals
(3) Qualifications and Training.
(4) Oath of Panel Members.
(5) Immunity.
(6) Codes of Ethics and Standards of Conduct.(J) Selection of Neutrals
(1) Parties to Confer.
(2) Documents provided by the Court to the Neutral
(3) Disqualification of Neutrals.
(4) Proposed Order of Referral
(5) Neutral's Post-Mediation Report to Court(K) Confidentiality of Proceedings
(1) General Rule of Confidentiality
(2) No Compelled Disclosure
(3) Limitations on Communications with Court
(4) Exception to the General Rule of Confidentiality(L) Compensation of Neutrals
(1) In General.
(2) Pro Bono Service.(M) Effective Date
Procedures for Appointment of Neutrals to Panel
(A) Applicability
(B) Deposit of Fees with Marshal
(C) Regarding In Rem Admiralty and Maritime Jurisdiction
(D) Post-Seizure Hearing
(E) Release of Seizures
(F) Advertisement of Seizures
(G) Verification of Pleadings
(H) Jury Trials in Cases Containing Claims Within the Purview of Rule 9(h)
(I) Intervention
(J) Notice of Sale
(K) Judicial Sale; Marshal's Return
(L) Confirmation of Sale.
(M) Taxation of Costs
Official Forms
Form 1 Case Management Order
Form 2(a) Notice of Receipt of Original Deposition
Form 2(b) Notice of Service of Interrogatories or Requests for Production of Documents or Responses Thereto
Form 2(c) Notice of Service of Pre-Discovery Disclosure Information
Form 3 Pretrial Order
Form 4 Receipt of Seized Property
Form 5 Good Faith Certificate
Form 6 Uniform Local Rule 26.1 Violation Order
Form 7 Application for Enrollment in Court's Panel of Neutrals