OCT 16 2025 At-110:2:B
FILED - USDG - BPT - CT
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT
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In Re:
STAY OF CERTAIN CIVIL CASES PENDING THE ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER
RESTORATION OF DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE NO. 2025- 22
FUNDING
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Federal funding for certain functions of the United States of America lapsed on October
1, 2025. Attorneys and staff members of the Civil Division of the United States Attorney's
Office for the District of Connecticut and other Department of Justice civil litigating
components are generally prohibited - with limited exceptions - from working, even on a
voluntary basis, during the lapse of appropriations. Upon request of the United States Attorney
for the District of Connecticut, in light of the lapse of funding to the United States Department
of Justice, and to facilitate the management of the Court's docket, it is hereby ordered as
follows:
1. Except as ordered otherwise by a judge presiding over a particular case, all civil
cases (other than civil forfeiture cases, immigration cases, habeas petitions, or cases
requesting temporary restraining orders or other emergency relief) in which the
United States Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut or the Department
of Justice has appeared as counsel of record for the United States, its agencies,
and/or its employees are hereby stayed until two businesses days after the date the
President signs into law a budget appropriation that restores Department of Justice
funding.
2. Except as ordered otherwise by a judge presiding over a particular case, all court
deadlines, including scheduling order deadlines and seal deadlines in qui tam cases,
in all civil cases (other than civil forfeiture cases, immigration cases, habeas
petitions, or cases requesting temporary restraining orders or other emergency
relief) in which the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut
or the Department of Justice has appeared as counsel of record for the United
States, its agencies, and/or its employees are hereby tolled during the duration of
the government shutdown and extended thereafter for a period of time equal to the
number of calendar days between October 1, 2025 and two business days after the
date the President signs into law a budget appropriation that restores Department
of Justice funding.
3. The United States Attorney's Office shall notify the Court immediately upon the
restoration of Department of Justice funding.
SO ORDERED:
Dated: October _ 16_ , 2025
Hartford, Connecticut
ls/Michael P. Shea
Michael P. Shea
Chief United States District Judge
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