Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil

Letters. Except as otherwise provided below, communications with the Court should be by letter not to exceed three pages in length.

All communications with the Court by a pro se party must be sent to the Pro Se Intake Office. You may contact the Pro Se Intake Office at (212) 805-0175 during normal business hours, 8:30am - 5:00pm, Monday – Friday. No documents or filings should be sent directly to Chambers.

Pro se parties are not permitted to telephone Chambers. Pro se parties are directed to contact the Pro Se Intake Office at (212) 805-0175.

Faxes to Chambers are not permitted (unless specifically directed by the Court).

If this meet-and-confer process does not resolve the dispute, the party may file on ECF a joint letter, no longer than four pages, explaining the nature of the dispute and setting forth the position of each party with respect to the disputed issue, and requesting an informal conference.

To request a pre-motion conference, the party wishing to make a motion shall file a letter, not to exceed three pages, briefly describing the motion that is contemplated and summarizing the grounds for the proposed motion, and whether the motion is on consent of all parties.

If the motion is not on consent, any opposing party should file a letter setting forth its position, not to exceed three pages, within three business days after the request is filed.

Unless prior permission has been granted, memoranda of law in support of and in opposition to motions are limited to 25 pages, and reply memoranda are limited to 10 pages.

All memoranda of law shall be in 12-point font or larger, double-spaced, and text-searchable.

Memoranda of 10 pages or more shall contain a table of contents and a table of authorities, neither of which shall count against the page limit.

The 56.1 Statement must be organized into numbered paragraphs and each numbered paragraph must contain only one factual assertion. Each factual assertion must be followed by a citation to the portion(s) of the evidentiary record relied upon.

Except in pro se cases, opposing parties must reproduce each entry in the moving party's 56.1 Statement, and set out the opposing party's response directly beneath it. The response must state specifically what is admitted and what is disputed, and the basis for any dispute, citing specific portions of the evidentiary record relied upon.

The response may go on to make additional factual allegations in paragraphs numbered consecutively to those of the moving party (i.e., they do not begin re-numbering at 1). If additional factual allegations are made by the opposing party, the moving party must file its own responsive 56.1 Statement addressing the additional assertions.

If multiple parties are submitting 56.1 Statements, they must coordinate their statements to provide for consecutive, non-overlapping, numbered paragraphs in their respective statements.

As soon as a party decides to seek a temporary restraining order, he or she must call Chambers at (212) 805-0200 and state clearly whether (i) he or she has notified the adversary, and whether the adversary consents to temporary injunctive relief; or (ii) the requirements of Fed. R. Civ. P. 65(b) are satisfied and no notice is necessary.

ii. E-mailing of Documents to Chambers. At the same time, the party should e-mail to Chambers (VyskocilNYSDChambers@nysd.uscourts.gov) (i) a clean (i.e., unredacted) copy of the document and (ii) a copy of the document highlighting the information that has been redacted in the ECF filing.

If required by the Standing Order, counsel seeking to bring a device into the Courthouse shall submit a copy of the Electronic Devices General Purpose Form, available at https://nysd.uscourts.gov/node/766, to the Court by e-mail at least 24 hours prior to the relevant trial or hearing. Untimely requests may be denied on that basis alone.

These submissions shall be submitted in accordance with the page limitations provided in the Court’s Individual Rule 4.A.iii.

In the case of discovery disputes, the parties should follow Local Rule 37.2 and the Court’s Individual Rules of Practice in Civil Cases (“Individual Practice Rules”), which are available at https://nysd.uscourts.gov/hon-mary-kay-vyskocil. Any party wishing to raise a discovery dispute with the Court must first meet and confer in good faith with the opposing party, in person or by telephone, in an effort to resolve the dispute.

process, the Parties may file a joint letter on ECF, no longer than four pages, explaining the nature of the dispute and setting forth the position of each party with respect to the disputed issue, and requesting an informal conference. Such a letter must include a representation that the meet-and-confer process occurred and was unsuccessful.

In Civil Cases. Unless otherwise ordered by the Court, all conferences and proceedings in civil cases will be held by telephone. In some cases, the Court may direct one of the parties to set up a conference line. In all other cases, the parties should call into the Court’s dedicated conference line at (888) 278-0296, and enter Access Code 5195844, followed by the pound (#) key.

For urgent matters requiring immediate attention, parties should send an email to Chambers that (1) includes the word “URGENT” in the subject line; (2) specifies the case name and docket number; (3) briefly describes the nature of the issue; and (4) provides a telephone number at which the party (and any other relevant parties) can be reached.

Faxes are not permitted for any purposes.

Pro se parties are encouraged to (1) consent to electronic service (via ECF or email); or (2) seek the Court’s permission to file documents through the ECF system or by email to the Court. Unless the Court grants permission to file documents electronically, all communications with the Court by a pro se party must be mailed to the Pro Se Intake Unit, Thurgood Marshall Courthouse, 40 Centre Street, Room 105, New York, New York 10007. Any questions should be directed to the Pro Se Intake Unit at (212) 805-0175.

Upon assignment of a new criminal case to Judge Vyskocil, the Assistant United States Attorney must immediately email the Court to arrange for a prompt conference/arraignment.