3/30/2020: Please see the attached General Order 04-20 Re Hearings by Video or Telephone as Authorized by the CARES Act.
3/25/2020: ...
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03/26/2020
Public Access to Criminal Hearings
For all necessary criminal hearings set...
03/10/2020
Per General Order 02-20 all hearings scheduled for March – May have been canceled and will be rescheduled. The Court is still formulating a plan to reschedule these matters. Once a final plan is in place, you will be notified. Please make sure...
02/25/2020
Please submit the completed DREAM Application form and any pertinent supplemental materials to the DREAM program committee via...
02/02/2020
THE NEXT GENERATION OF CM/ECF IS HERE
The United States District Court for the Western District of Washington upgraded its CM/ECF software to the Next Generation (NextGen) of CM/ECF on January 27, 2020. Now that the court...
01/27/2020
Due to concerns related to the Coronavirus, training classes are cancelled until further notice.
The Western District of Washington Clerk's Office trainers have regularly scheduled Introduction to Electronic Case Filing...
01/25/2020
If you are called by someone who says there is a warrant for your arrest related to missed federal jury duty or other offenses, do not make any payments to them. Neither the U.S. Marshals Service, nor the U.S. District Court,...
01/22/2020
Please see the attached order, dated December 18, 2019, reappointing Part-Time Magistrate Judge Paula L. McCandlis.
01/21/2020
CM/ECF will be unavailable from 5:00 PM PDT on Friday, January 24, 2020 until 7:00 AM PDT on Monday, January 27, 2020.
During this maintenance window, the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington...
01/10/2020
Local Criminal Rules Correction
Due to a typograhical error, an intended change to Appendix A of the Local Criminal Rules did not appear in the redlined version of the Rules posted for...