§1.A: Except as otherwise provided below, communications with the Court shall be by letter, which shall be filed electronically on ECF. (See SDNY Electronic Case Filing Rules & Instructions, Section 13.1.) i. Absent prior permission, letters -- inclusive of attached exhibits -- may not exceed 5 pages in length. ii. Letters between or among parties or their counsel or otherwise not addressed to the Court may not be filed on ECF or sent to the Court (except as exhibits to an otherwise properly filed document). iii. In civil and miscellaneous cases, letters to be filed under seal or containing sensitive or confidential information shall be filed in accordance with Paragraph 3 below...If a party wishes to fax or email a document to the Court, it must obtain prior permission to do so. The fax or email must indicate who in Chambers provided such permission, and must be copied to all counsel and unrepresented parties. §1.D: Please do NOT provide courtesy copies of letters and letter-motions filed on ECF. §1.E: Telephone calls to Chambers are permitted only in situations requiring immediate attention. In such situations, call Chambers at (914) 390-4166. §1.F: Docketing, Scheduling, and Calendar Matters. Please call Yadira Fuschillo, Courtroom Deputy Clerk, at (914) 390-4167, during regular business hours.

§3.A: Sealing/Redactions Not Requiring Court Approval. Fed. R. Civ. P. 5.2 describes sensitive information that must be redacted from public court filings without seeking prior permission from the Court. Such sensitive information includes: Social Security numbers; names of minor children; dates of birth; and financial account numbers. §3.B: Sealing/Redaction Requiring Court Approval. Motions or letter-motions for approval of sealed or redacted filings, and the subject documents, including the proposed sealed document(s), must be filed electronically through the Court's ECF system in conformity with the Court's standing order, 19-mc-00583, and SDNY Electronic Case Filing Rules & Instructions, Section 6. The motion must be filed in public view, must explain the reasons for seeking to file that information under seal, and should not include confidential information sought to be filed under seal. The proposed sealed document must be contemporaneously filed, under seal, in the ECF system, as electronically related to the motion. To be approved, any redaction or sealing of a court filing must be narrowly tailored to serve whatever purpose justifies the redaction or sealing and must be otherwise consistent with the presumption in favor of public access to judicial documents. See Lugosch v. Pyramid Co. of Onondaga, 435 F.3d 110, 119-20 (2d Cir. 2006). In general, the parties' consent or the fact that information is subject to a confidentiality agreement between litigants is not, by itself, a valid basis to overcome the presumption in favor of public access to judicial documents. See In re Gen. Motors LLC Ignition Switch Litig., No. 14-MD-2543 (JMF), 2015 WL 4750774, at *4 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 11, 2015).

§2.B.i: For discovery motions, follow Local Civil Rule 37.2, which requires the moving party to request an informal conference with the Court before the filing of any such motion. Strict adherence to Fed. R. Civ. P. 37(a)(1), the 'meet and confer' rule, is required. The parties should be prepared to describe the time, place, and duration of the meeting, and to identify the counsel involved.