(a)    Filing of all Transcripts Made. 

 

(1)         When any official court reporter employed by the judiciary has completed the preparation of any transcript of any proceeding in this Court, the reporter shall promptly file electronically a certified copy thereof, in accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 753(b).

 

(2)         When any official court reporter, other than a court reporter employed by the judiciary, has completed the preparation of any transcript of any proceeding in this Court, the reporter shall promptly file with the office of the Clerk of Court a certified copy thereof in accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 753(b); the Clerk shall electronically file the copy of the official transcript provided by the court reporter.

 

(b)    Access Restrictions After Transcript Filed.

 

(1)   Access to a transcript provided to the Court by a court reporter will be restricted in accordance with this rule. 

 

(A)        Transcripts of sealed proceedings or filed in sealed cases shall not be made available to the public, electronically or otherwise, unless otherwise ordered by the Court.
 

(B)        Transcripts of criminal voir dire proceedings shall not be made available to the public, electronically or otherwise, unless otherwise ordered by the Court.
 

(C)        Remote electronic access to transcripts of civil voir dire proceedings shall remain restricted to the users identified in subsection (b)(2) of this rule indefinitely, unless otherwise ordered by the court.
 

(D)        Access to all other transcripts will be restricted for a period of 90 days after the transcript is filed by the court reporter or Clerk of Court.

 

(2)   Unless otherwise ordered by the Court, during the 90-day restriction period the following will have access to the transcript in CM/ECF:

 

(A)        Court staff;
 

(B)        Public terminal users in the Clerk’s Office, for inspection only;

 

(C)       Attorneys of record or parties who have purchased the transcript from the court reporter; and

 

(D)       Other persons as directed by the Court, e.g., appellate attorneys.

 

(3)      PACER fees will apply at all times when the transcript is remotely accessed electronically except when the transcript is accessed by Court staff or at the public terminals in the Clerk’s Office.
 

(4)      A copy of any transcript, except transcripts that are not publicly available, may be purchased from the court reporter at the rate established by the Judicial Conference at any time.

 

(c)    Transcript Available After 90-Day Restriction Period. 

 

(1)   Unless remote electronic access to the transcript is otherwise restricted by this rule, after the 90-day restriction period has ended and all pending motions related to the transcript are resolved, the original transcript or the redacted transcript if redaction occurred will be available for inspection and copying at the Clerk’s Office and for downloading from the Court’s CM/ECF system through the judiciary’s PACER system, unless otherwise ordered by the Court. 

 

(2)   If redaction occurred, the Clerk will maintain the original un-redacted electronic version of the transcript as a restricted document in accordance with subsection (b)(2) of this rule, except that the restricted document will be available to view and copy in the Clerk’s Office, unless otherwise ordered by the Court.

 

(d)    Transcript Fees. 

 

The court reporter shall not be required to undertake the making of a typed transcript for parties other than the Court without payment, nor to furnish such transcript prior to the full payment therefor, except as otherwise ordered by the Court for in forma pauperis cases. 

 

A current schedule of transcript fees, as established by the Judicial Conference, is on file in the Clerk's Office and is available from the official court reporters.

 

2008 Advisory Committee's Note to LR 80.1

LR 80.1 does not apply to deposition transcripts.

 

[Adopted effective February 1, 1991; amended April 6, 2004; amended May 12, 2008; amended August 11, 2008]