United States District Court for the District of Minnesota

Contacting chambers

Email materials to the court as attachments, not cloud storage links, unless the recipient gives advance permission.

“All electronic materials presented to the Court, the Clerk’s Office, or the U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services Office in an email must not be done using a link to a cloud-based storage system but must be provided as an attachment to the email, unless the sender obtained permission in advance from the intended recipient;”

Filing

Do not encrypt removable media filed or presented to the court.

“All discovery, documents, pleadings, and other electronic materials contained on removable media which are filed with or presented to the Court, the Clerk’s Office, or the U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services Office must not be encrypted;”

Sealing

Sealed documents remain filed electronically but are not viewable there.

“Sealed documents will continue to be filed in the Court's electronic filing system but will not be accessible or viewable in the system.”

Sealing

Serve sealed documents by another authorized means because electronic filing no longer effects service.

“must serve all sealed documents by another means authorized by Rule 5(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil or Criminal Procedure.”

Sealing

File sealed documents containing highly sensitive information outside the electronic filing system using the court’s placeholder procedure.

“If the filing party determines that a document contains HSI, the filing party must not file the document in the Court’s electronic filing system but must instead:”

Sealing

A party may move in ECF to remove a previously sealed document containing highly sensitive information from CM/ECF.

“Any party in any case, open or closed, may file a motion in ECF to remove sealed documents with HSI from CM/ECF.”