New CAED

PAYMENT CHANGE

As of January 1, 2022, the Clerk's Office no longer accepts cash for payments of any kind.

For further information, please visit our Paying Fees and Finacial Information page.

As the Senate Judiciary Committee meets Tuesday, June 30, 2020 to address the Judicial Conference’s recommendation for more judgeships, the Eastern District of California continues to experience a long-standing judicial emergency now exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic...

On February 24, 2021 the U.S. House of Representatives Subommittee on the Judiciary held a hearing in order to consider judicial crisis being experienced in Courts and Circuits across the United States.

All Social Security Practitioners

In cases filed after June 15, 2021, or as otherwise ordered by the court, the Eastern District of California will be adopting new procedures in Social Security Cases.

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California issues General Order 631 providing notice of planned reopening of courthouses on June 14, 2021

Amendments to the Federal Rules of Practice and Procedure 

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Changes to Miscellaneous Fee Schedules

New PACER Website

Check out PACER’s newly redesigned, informational and resource website, https://pacer.uscourts.gov.

Retired U.S. Magistrate Judge John F. Moulds III, who served the Eastern District of California with great distinction for thirty years and is remembered as the Dean of the Magistrate Judge bench, nationally and locally, died peacefully Friday morning, May 29, 2020. He had just recently turned 82 years old....

An Important Letter to Congress from the Judges
of the Eastern District of California Regarding Our Caseload Crisis

It has been four decades since the last judgeship was created in the Eastern District of California. In that period of time the population of the district has grown 220%. The judges of the Eastern District routinely carry one of the heaviest caseloads in the country....