**District Judge Jon S. Tigar** was appointed to the Northern District of California in January 2013. Judge Tigar served for eleven years as a judge on the Alameda County Superior Court, including as Presiding Judge of its Appellate Division. He was a complex commercial litigation attorney at Keker & Van Nest, a trial lawyer at the San Francisco Public Defender's Office, and has taught as an adjunct professor of Pretrial Litigation at Berkeley Law School. He is a member of the American Law Institute, the Ninth Circuit Jury Instructions Committee, and serves as Co-Chair of the Federal Judicial Center/ABA Antitrust Section Judicial Education Program. **Education** - UC Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, J.D. (Order of the Coif; Articles Editor, California Law Review) - Williams College, B.A. in Economics and English **Career** - Law Clerk to Hon. Robert S. Vance, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit - Trial Lawyer, San Francisco Public Defender's Office - Litigation Attorney, Morrison & Foerster - Attorney, Keker & Van Nest, San Francisco (complex commercial litigation) - Judge, Superior Court of California, Alameda County (11 years); Presiding Judge, Appellate Division - Adjunct Professor, Pretrial Litigation, UC Berkeley School of Law
**Courthouse:** Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building & United States Courthouse, 1301 Clay Street, Suite 400 S, Oakland, CA 94612 **Chambers:** Courtroom 6, 2nd Floor **Phone:** (510) 637-3547 **Chambers Staff** - Courtroom Deputy/Calendar Clerk: jstcrd@cand.uscourts.gov
Courtesy copies are required for electronic medias, pretrial filings, and motions in limines. Details: delivery upon filing, by hand delivery. Courtesy copies required for electronic media and pretrial filings including motions in limine.
Judge Jon S. Tigar's rules set a pre-motion procedure for covered motions. Motions must be noticed for hearing per Local Rule 47-1; counsel must check judge's calendar before selecting date.
Judge Jon S. Tigar's rule states these limits: 25 pages. Motions in limine must be filed 14 days before pretrial conference, limited to 25 pages in one document.
Judge Jon S. Tigar's rule states these limits: 25 pages. Oppositions to motions in limine must be filed 7 days before pretrial conference, limited to 25 pages.
Judge Jon S. Tigar's formatting rule includes file format PDF and text-searchable. Electronic filings must be text-searchable PDFs unless filed by pro se litigants.
The rule requires proposed order. Proposed orders must be submitted electronically in Word format to specific email address.
The rule requires local rule certificate. Pretrial statement must address all items in Criminal Local Rule 17.1-1(b).
Parties may contact Judge Jon S. Tigar's witness by in person only as allowed by the rule. Counsel cannot consult with witness during cross-examination except for privilege or court order compliance.
A motion to seal is required for covered sealed filings before Judge Jon S. Tigar. Motions in limine are presumptively not sealed; leave to file under seal is ordinarily not granted.
Judge Jon S. Tigar's rules specify what an adjournment or extension request must include. Trial dates are firm; continuances are disfavored, rarely granted for principle settlements; stipulated dismissal ordinarily required.
Yes. Judge Jon S. Tigar requires bundling for covered papers. Parties must deliver one set of pre-marked exhibits in three-ring binders to Clerk's office at least 7 days before trial.
Yes. Electronic filing is required for the covered filings. Following trial, parties must coordinate with courtroom deputy to electronically file all admitted exhibits, the official court record.
Motions must be noticed for hearing per Local Rule 47-1; counsel must check judge's calendar before selecting date.
Motions in limine must be filed 14 days before pretrial conference, limited to 25 pages in one document.
Oppositions to motions in limine must be filed 7 days before pretrial conference, limited to 25 pages.
Reply briefs to motions in limine are not permitted without prior court order.
Footnotes must be at least 12-point type and used sparingly.
Electronic filings must be text-searchable PDFs unless filed by pro se litigants.
Courtesy copies required for electronic media and pretrial filings including motions in limine.
Courtesy copies must be double-sided, three-hole-punched, with ECF stamp and side tabs for exhibits.
Binders must be easily identifiable and not exceed 3 inches in spine width.
Proposed orders must be submitted electronically in Word format to specific email address.
Pretrial statement must address all items in Criminal Local Rule 17.1-1(b).
Pretrial statement must include joint jury instructions using Ninth Circuit Model, with deviations clearly marked and supported.
Special jury instructions must be complete, accurate, balanced, clear, non-argumentative, and disputed instructions must include argument and authority.
Email Word versions of jury instructions, voir dire, and verdict form to jstpo@cand.uscourts.gov on filing day.
Exhibits not provided as required may be excluded at court's discretion.
Exchange all trial exhibits 21 days before final pretrial conference.
Voluminous exhibits must be reduced or summarized.
Exhibit numbers must be labeled in lower-right corner in bold typeface.
Parties must use non-overlapping exhibit number ranges with room for additional exhibits.
Deliver pre-marked exhibits in three-ring binders to courtroom deputy 7 days before trial.
Binders must be easily transportable and spines should not exceed 3 inches.
Notify other parties of next day's witnesses by close of each trial day.
Non-compliance may result in exclusion of undisclosed witnesses.
Counsel cannot consult with witness during cross-examination except for privilege or court order compliance.
Counsel may confer with witness after cross-examination before redirect begins.
Email Transcripts@cand.uscourts.gov 14 days before trial for daily transcript or real-time reporting.
Notify Courtroom Deputy Dianna Shoblo 30 days before trial if interpreter needed for witness.
Parties must file and serve joint pretrial statement at least 7 calendar days before the pretrial conference.
Joint pretrial statement must contain 15 specified sections including substance of action, relief requested, undisputed facts, exhibits list, disputed legal issues, and others.
Joint pretrial statements must include specified language directly above the signature lines.