1. Communications with Chambers A. Pro Se Litigants. Civil pro se litigants must send all communications with the Court to the Pro Se Intake Unit by mail to 500 Pearl Street, Room 205, New York, NY 10007 or by email to ProSe@nysd.uscourts.gov.

§5.B.i: The parties are referred to Rule 5.2 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the Southern District’s ECF Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”), and the Southern District’s September 24, 2025 Notice to the Bar announcing changes to electronic access to and service of sealed documents.0F1 There are two categories of information that may be redacted from public court filings without prior permission from the Court: “sensitive information” and information requiring “caution.” Parties should not include in their public filings, unless necessary, the five categories of “sensitive information” (i.e., social security numbers [use the last four digits only], names of minor children [use the initials only], dates of birth [use the year only], financial account numbers [use the last four digits only], and home addresses [use only the City and State]). Parties may also, without prior Court approval, redact from their public filings the six categories of information requiring caution described in the Privacy Policy (i.e., any personal identifying number, medical records [including information regarding treatment and diagnosis], employment history, individual financial information, proprietary or trade secret information, and information regarding an individual’s cooperation with the government). ii. Redactions and Sealed Filings Requiring Court Approval. Except for redactions permitted by the previous Paragraph, all redactions or sealing of public court filings require Court approval. To be approved, any redaction or sealing of a court filing must be narrowly tailored to serve whatever purpose justifies the redaction or 1 https://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/2025-09/Notice%20to%20Bar%20with%20Standing%20Order%20- %20Sealed%20Document%20Access.pdf. Judge Broderick Civil Rules & Practices 6 sealing and must be otherwise consistent with the presumption in favor of public access to judicial documents. See, e.g., 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, e.g., In re Gen. Motors LLC Ignition Switch Litig., No. 14-MD- 2543, 2015 WL 4750774, at *4 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 11, 2015). iii. Procedures for Filing Sealed or Redacted Documents. Any party seeking to file a document under seal or in redacted form shall proceed as follows: Meet and Confer. The party seeking leave to file sealed or redacted materials should meet and confer with any opposing party (or any third party seeking confidential treatment of the information) in advance to narrow the scope of the request. When a party seeks leave to file a document under seal or in redacted form on the ground that an opposing party or third party has requested it, the filing party shall notify the opposing party or third party that it must file, within three days, a letter explaining the need to seal or redact the document. Sealed documents can no longer be served through electronic filing in the ECF system. Accordingly, any method of service of sealed documents, other than those provided for in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (such as by email), must be discussed and agreed upon by the parties. Sealed Document(s). The party shall electronically file a letter motion seeking leave to file a document under seal on ECF in accordance with Standing Order 19-MC-583 and Section 6 of the S.D.N.Y. Electronic Case Filing Rules and Instructions. The letter motion itself shall be filed in public view, should explain the reasons for seeking to file the document under seal, and should not include confidential information. The proposed sealed document shall be separately and contemporaneously filed under seal on ECF (with the appropriate level of restriction) and electronically related to the motion (or to the relevant Court order if the Court pre

any contact information on ECF is up to date. 3. Discovery Disputes. Unless otherwise directed, counsel should describe their discovery disputes in a single letter, jointly composed, not to exceed five pages. Separate and successive letters will not be read. Strict adherence to Fed.