United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana
13 judges profiled from their own signed orders: how each rules on motions, with the orders quoted. Court-wide standing orders ↓
Brian Anthony Jackson
District judge, appointed by Barack Obama (Democratic)
Erin Wilder-Doomes
Magistrate judge
Richard L. Bourgeois, Jr.
Magistrate judge
Shelly Deckert Dick
District judge, appointed by Barack Obama (Democratic)
Frank Joseph PolozolaDeceased
District judge, appointed by Jimmy Carter (Democratic)
James J. BradyDeceased
District judge, appointed by Bill Clinton (Democratic)
Ralph E. TysonDeceased
District judge, appointed by Bill Clinton (Democratic)
John Wheadon deGravelles
District judge, appointed by Barack Obama (Democratic)
John Victor ParkerDeceased
District judge, appointed by Jimmy Carter (Democratic)
Docia L. DalbyLeft this court 2012
Magistrate judge
Christine NolandLeft this court 2011
Magistrate judge
Stephen C. RiedlingerLeft this court 2016
Magistrate judge
Scott D. Johnson
Magistrate judge
Standing orders for every case in this court
Orders the United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana applies to all of its cases, whichever judge has them, as published on the court's website (checked October 9, 2026). Courts revise these, so confirm the current version before you file. The court's local rules ↗
- Administrative Procedures for Filing Electronic Documents ↗
- Updated Procedures for Filing, Service, and Management of Highly Sensitive Documents ↗
- Consent to Magistrate Judges ↗
Sealing
File documents in sealed cases on paper; electronic access to sealed cases is unavailable.
“Sealed documents in sealed cases must be filed in paper since electronic access to sealed cases is unavailable.”
Sealing
Serve electronically filed sealed documents outside CM/ECF.
“Service of e-filed sealed documents must be made by means other than CM/ECF because sealed documents cannot be accessed electronically.”
Sealing
To seek highly sensitive document treatment, file a sealed designation motion and proposed order; do not file the proposed sensitive document electronically.
“Any filer seeking to have a document treated as an HSD shall file a sealed motion to designate a document as an HSD and proposed order in accordance with the Middle District’s Administrative Procedures for Filing Electronic Documents, Section II, except that the proposed HSD shall not be filed electronically.”
Other
In a directly assigned magistrate consent case, a party that does not return the declination form by the notice deadline is deemed to consent.
“If a party does not sign and return the Notice of Assignment to a U.S. Magistrate Judge and Declination of Consent Form, such that it is received by the Clerk of Court by the date designated in the Notice, that party is deemed to have knowingly and voluntarily consented to proceed before the magistrate judge”