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Order Adopting Local Civil Rule 83.5, Transfer Orders

E.D. La. Standing Order — Order Adopting Local Civil Rule 83.5, Transfer Orders

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA ORDER Appropriate public notice and an opportunity for comment having been given, pursuant to a majority vote of the active judges of this court; IT IS ORDERED that effective February 4, 2025, the Local Civil Rules of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana are hereby amended to include the addition of the following rule: LR 83.5.1, Transfer Orders Unless all affected parties consent to the transfer, an order that transfers a case to a district court outside the Fifth Circuit is stayed for 21 days from the date the order is entered on the docket. This rule does not apply to transfer orders of the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. New Orleans, Louisiana, this ________ 4th day of February, 2025. ________________________________________ NANNETTE JOLIVETTE BROWN, CHIEF JUDGE 1
Official source: https://www.laed.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/general-orders/ORDER%20Adopting%2083.5.1 · retrieved 2026-07-23