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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
Cause of Action: 28:2254 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (State)

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ORDER OF THE CHIEF JUDGE 

IN RE: ELECTRONIC FILING IN CASES WITH UNREPRESENTED PARTIES

When the Electronic Case Filing (ECF/e-filing) program was established for civil

cases in January 2003 (see generally General Order 45), the court’s practice was to exclude from the

e-filing program cases in which any party was not represented by an attorney. Pursuant to Part III of

General Order 45, the court’s ECF webpage provided: “All cases involving pro se parties are

excluded from the e-filing program and must be filed entirely in paper, unless otherwise ordered by

the court.”

Effective immediately, cases with unrepresented party litigants in which at least one

party is represented by an attorney will no longer be excluded from the e-filing program. All

represented parties will e-file their submissions to the court on the same basis as in cases not

involving pro se litigants and in compliance with all parts of General Order 45. Represented parties

will be required to serve paper copies by mail on unrepresented parties only. As before,

unrepresented litigants will continue to file and serve all submissions to the court in paper form

unless prior leave is obtained from the assigned judge in a particular case. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Date: May 11, 2007 

Vaughn R Walker

United States District Chief Judge 

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