Judge Kenneth M. Karas

Communications with the Court should be by letter. Unless there is a request to file a letter under seal or a letter contains sensitive or confidential information, letters should be filed electronically via ECF. Letters to be filed under seal or containing sensitive or confidential information should be delivered to the Court by mail.

Letter-motions should be filed via ECF if they comply with the S.D.N.Y. Local Rules and the S.D.N.Y. 'Electronic Case Filing Rules and Instructions.' In particular, all requests for adjournments, extensions, and pre-motion conferences (including pre-motion conferences with respect to discovery disputes) should be filed as letter-motions.

Questions regarding ECF filings should go to the Clerk's Office, (914) 390-4000, or to the ECF Hotline, (212) 805-0800. The Court does not handle the

Do not contact Chambers to confirm that a particular filing was uploaded; the document should be visible on ECF if it was uploaded correctly. For questions that cannot be answered by reference to these Rules or the S.D.N.Y. Local Rules or for situations requiring the Court's immediate attention, Parties should email Chambers at KarasNYSDChambers@nysd.uscourts.gov.

Telephone calls to Chambers are not permitted.

Faxes to Chambers are not permitted.

To arrange a pre-motion conference for all other forms of motions that require them, the moving Party shall submit a letter (consistent with the procedures described above) not to exceed three pages in length (using normal margins and font) setting forth the basis for the anticipated motion. All Parties so served must submit a letter response, not to exceed three pages, within seven days from service of the notification letter.

Unless otherwise ordered by the Court, all conferences and proceedings will occur in person.

If filed by an attorney or prepared with a computer, memoranda of law in support of and in opposition to motions are limited to 8,750 words, and reply memoranda are limited to 3,500 words. If filed by a Party who is not represented by an attorney and handwritten or prepared with a typewriter, memoranda of law in support of and in opposition to motions are limited to 25 pages, and reply memoranda are limited to 10 pages.

If a brief is filed by an attorney or prepared with a computer, it must include a certification, by the attorney or by the filing Party who is not represented by an attorney, that the document complies with word count limitations. The certification must state the number of words in the document and may rely on the word count of the word-processing program used to prepare the document.

Memoranda of 10 pages or more shall contain a table of contents.

All exhibits in support of motions should be filed on ECF. Exhibits that cannot be submitted on ECF (e.g., media files) should be provided to the Court on portable electronic storage media (e.g., flash drive, portable hard drive, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM).

Unless otherwise ordered by the Court, all conferences and proceedings in civil cases, besides trials, will be held by telephone. The Parties should call into the Court’s dedicated conference line at (605) 472-5160, and enter Access Code 4653066, followed by the pound (#) key.

For conferences involving incarcerated pro se plaintiffs, Defense counsel is responsible for making arrangements with the relevant correctional facility to ensure that the plaintiff will be reachable via telephone at the time of the conference.

Upon assignment of a criminal case to Judge Karas, the Parties immediately shall arrange with the Deputy Clerk for a prompt conference at which the defendant will be present in order to set a discovery and motion schedule. The Assistant United States Attorney shall provide a courtesy copy of the indictment and the criminal complaint, if one exists, to Chambers as soon as practicable.