REGARDING JUDGE GONZALEZ ROGERS CALENDARS:

NOTICE REGARDING CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCES  BEFORE JUDGE YVONNE GONZALEZ ROGERS.

COUNSEL AND PARTIES:

All Case Management Conferences 

before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers will be held

 by Zoom platform. The link is on the Judge’s home page.

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 NOTICE REGARDING CIVIL LAW AND MOTION CALENDARS BEFORE JUDGE YVONNE GONZALEZ ROGERS.

 *FOR THE MONTH OF MAY 2021 CIVIL LAW AND

MOTION CALENDARS WILL BE HELD AT 3:30 PM

DUE TO THE COURT'S TRIAL SCHEDULE*

COUNSEL AND PARTES: 

The Court expects that all Law and Motion hearings before

Judge Gonzalez Rogers will be held by Zoom platform or matters will be taken under submission on the papers. Typically, the Court will decide no later than the Friday before the calendar whether argument will be necessary.  The Zoom link is on the Judge’s home page.

  *************************************************              All Compliance Deadlines (formerly “hearings”) will be addressed on the papers.  No personal appearances will be held.

Requests for Continuances due to complications arising from COVID-19 will be granted upon a sufficient showing of a plan to keep the litigation progressing.  Blanket continuances are not granted nor are requests with a generic reference to the pandemic as the basis for the request.

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THE FOLLOWING ARE UNAVAILABLE DATES:

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CRIMINAL CALENDAR NOTICES:

AVAILABLE DATES  CRIM STATUS CONFERENCES:

CRIMINAL STATS out of custody [appearances via Zoom only]

[pleas and sentencings must be arranged with CRD]

1/11/2021  9:00am out of custody

1:00pm IN custody

2/1/2021 9:00am out of custody

1:00pm IN custody

2/22/2021 9:00am out of custody

1:00pm IN custody

3/8/2021 at 9:00am out of custody

1:00pm IN custody

3/22/2021 at 9:00am out of custody

1:00pm IN custody

4/5/2021 at 9:00am out of  custody

1:00pm IN custody

4/19/2021 at 9:00am out of custody

1:00pm IN custody

CRIMINAL IN COURTROOM HYBRID CALENDAR:

Thursdays at 9:01AM for In Person change of pleas and Sentencings only.  The Court will hold these proceedings sequentially at 9am, 10:30am, 1pm and 2:30pm. However, they will be set on the schedule as 9:01am, 9:02am, 9:03am, and 9:04am until the Court knows whether the in-custody defendants scheduled are, in fact, coming to the courthouse and are not in quarantine.  The final timing will then be set to minimize gaps so that in-custody defendants are not waiting unnecessarily in lock-up.  Out-of-custody defendants will be scheduled after those in-custody.

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Court Schedule: Courtroom 1, 4th Floor

Order of Call is Determined by the Court

* FOR THE MONTH OF MAY 2021 CIVIL LAW AND MOTION CALENDARS WILL BE HELD AT 3:30PM*

Civil Law and Motion:  Tuesdays at 2:00pm (Counsel do not  

Case Management Conferences:    Mondays at 2:00pm

Pretrial Conferences:  Civil:  Fridays at 9:00am

                                    Criminal: Fridays at 9:30am

Trials are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday:     8:30am-1:30pm

A Pre-Filing Conference for Summary Judgment Motions is required.

No changes to hearing dates except by signed order of the Court, by a signed stipulation and order or Motion for Administrative Relief per Civil L.R. 7-11 (See Standing Order in Civil Cases, paragraph 3)

CRIMINAL CASES:  Cases set for a change of plea without a plea agreement, counsel are to use the  Application for Permission to Enter Plea of Guilty and Order Form which is on the Court's website under Criminal Forms.

 Effective 9/13/2013 there is a Supplement to the Application. This form is on the web page for Judge Gonzalez Rogers in her Standing Orders section.

CRIMINAL CASES: In instances of a Change of Plea by a Plea Agreement, a copy of the Plea Agreement needs to be submitted to Chambers ONE WEEK IN ADVANCE  of the hearing.      

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 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN  DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

 GENERAL ORDER No. 72-6

 IN RE: Coronavirus Disease Public Health Emergency 

WHEREAS, the COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease) outbreak remains a national public health emergency;

 WHEREAS, the Judges of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California continue to balance the various interests implicated by the COVID-19 public health emergency; and 

WHEREAS, the Judges of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California have determined that the public safety will be best served by limiting the permissible in court proceedings in accordance with the logistical considerations necessitated by the Court’s safety protocols; 

NOW THEREFORE, the United States District Court, Northern District of California, hereby Orders as follows, effective immediately:

 Civil Cases: 1. Jury trials and bench trials may proceed in accordance with the logistical considerations necessitated by the Court’s safety protocols.

 2. Each judge will determine whether to hold a hearing or decide a civil matter on the papers. Hearings will be held via telephone or videoconference. This applies to motion hearings, case management conferences, pretrial conferences, settlement conferences, and Alternative Dispute Resolution (“ADR”) proceedings.

 For specific instructions on telephone or video appearances, see the docket on PACER, the assigned judge’s schedule of upcoming proceedings (located on each judge’s web page at cand.uscourts.gov/judges), or the ADR webpage.

 Criminal Cases: 1. Jury trials may proceed in accordance with the logistical considerations necessitated by the Court’s safety protocols.

 2. Initial appearances and other proceedings before the magistrate judges will be conducted by telephone or by videoconference. New arrestees shall be booked at Santa Rita Jail and produced for court appearance the following day instead of being presented for booking at the U.S. Marshals Service lockup.

 3. Other court appearances may be waived or postponed, or may be conducted by telephone or videoconference. See General Order 74 for procedures pursuant to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”). 

A limited number of in-court proceedings are permitted.

 4. To the extent possible, after lodging/filing an application to enter an open guilty plea or a plea agreement, guilty pleas and sentencing shall be consolidated for a date after the presentence report has been prepared.

 2 Other: 

1. All local rules requiring that a courtesy copy be provided to the chambers of the assigned judge are suspended pending further notice, unless a judge orders otherwise in a specific case.

 2. The requirement under Civil Local Rule 5-1(b) that a pro se party must request permission from the assigned judge to use the court’s Electronic Case Filing (ECF) system is suspended pending further notice. 

3. Pending further notice, the courthouses and law libraries are closed for public events, tours, and visits. 

4. Effective immediately, this General Order supersedes General Order 72-5. 

ADOPTED: September 16, 2020 FOR THE COURT:

 Phyllis J. Hamilton Chief Judge