Vernon oliver judge biography

To safeguard the rule against ex parte communications, and to further the public’s interest in pending court proceedings, Judge Oliver prefers parties and their counsel to communicate case-related inquiries through the docket, rather than through phone calls or emails to chambers, regardless of the nature of the inquiry.

To that end, Judge Oliver does not accept informal letters or communications from litigants (or from others, pertaining to any case), and asks that the Clerk’s Office return such submissions to the sender, without review thereof.

Standing Order to Litigants, Regarding Letters to the Court

Chambers copies for civil case filings by counsel in excess of 25 pages

For any case in which a party is represented by counsel, counsel must promptly mail or deliver to chambers a single courtesy hard copy of any filing, including exhibits, attachments, or supporting memoranda of law, if the filing (taken together with those exhibits, attac