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Check this page, or the News and Announcements box on the homepage, for the latest official news and announcements released by the court. You can also access archived news and announcements from this page.
December 6, 2018
This Standing Order dated December 6, 2018 hereby supersedes Judge Hawley’s previously entered Standing Order. Counsel are directed in particular to Sections VII(1), X, and XVI, which contain significant changes to provisions concerning...
December 4, 2018
In observance of the National Day of Mourning for President George H. W. Bush, and as being observed by the United States Supreme Court, all Courthouses in the Central District of Illinois will be closed except for the Springfield Courthouse. ...
April 3, 2018
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Judicial Conference of the United States Courts has authorized new transcript fee rates and the Central District of Illinois adopts these rates as the appropriate fee to be charged for the production and delivery of...
January 17, 2018
PUBLIC NOTICE FOR APPOINTMENT OF NEW MAGISTRATE JUDGES
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
(TWO POSITIONS)
(Available January 2019 and March 2019)
The United States District Court for the Southern...
November 14, 2017
On December 3, 1842, young Abraham Lincoln was admitted to practice before the federal court by U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Pope. Celebrating the 175th Anniversary of that event, U.S. District Judge Richard Mills and U.S. District Judge Sue E....
August 22, 2017
The Seventh Circuit's committee on Pattern Civil Jury Instructions has, with the permission of the Circuit counsil, revised parts 6 and 7 of the attached instructions.
June 13, 2017
The court has proposed local rule changes that will be posted for 30 day comment.