(a) The clerk is authorized, without further direction by the court, to sign and enter
any order permitted to be signed by the clerk under the Federal Rules of Civil
Procedure and the following:
(1) Orders specially appointing persons to serve process;
(2) Orders withdrawing exhibits under LR 79-1;
(3) Orders on stipulations:
(A) Satisfying judgments;
(B) Noting satisfaction of orders for the payment of money;
(C) Withdrawing stipulations;
(D) Annulling bonds; or
(E) Exonerating sureties.
(b) The clerk must:
(1) Enter judgments on verdicts or decisions of the court in circumstances
authorized by Fed. R. Civ. P. 58(b)(1);
(2) Enter default for failure to plead or otherwise defend under Fed. R. Civ. P.
55(a);
(3) Enter judgments by default in the circumstances authorized by Fed. R.
Civ. P. 55(b)(1);
(4) Enter judgments after acceptance of an offer of judgment in the
circumstances authorized by Fed. R. Civ. P. 68(a);
(5) When ordered by the court in the particular case or in all cases assigned to
a particular judge, enter orders under LR IA 11-2 granting permission to
an attorney to practice in a particular case and orders under LR IA 11-6
granting leave of the court for substitution of counsel; and
(6) Enter any other order that, under Fed. R. Civ. P. 77(c)(2)(D), does not
require special direction by the court.
(c) For the purposes of subsection (b)(3), “sum certain or a sum that can be made
certain by computation” means an amount that appears in, or can be simply
calculated from, the complaint and supporting affidavits. If the complaint and
supporting affidavits leave doubt about the amount to which a plaintiff is entitled
as a result of the defendant’s default, the claim is not for a sum certain.
