No Hard Copies for UMC — E-Courtesy 3 and 5 Days Out — Division AF

Source of truth

"The Court does not accept hard copies or courtesy emails of documents for UMC hearings, other than those presented for in camera review" / "At least three (3) days before each hearing, please upload in E-Courtesy copies" / "All materials, both E-Courtesy and hard copies, should be submitted at least five (5) days before each hearing"

Official source

15th Cir. — Division AF Instructions (Judge Bell)

Source health

Healthy · checked October 23, 2026

Effective date

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Last verified

September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (live text containment) | prior: benchpath-cw-2026-08-04

Reviewer note: Verified against the live official page on 2026-07-05. 30-day recheck scheduled. | 2026-08-03: the source (rendered DOM (headless Chromium)) no longer contains this rule's quoted text; dropped to medium pending re-composition against the current version. | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-af-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation). [MEDIUM CONFIRMED 2026-08-03 (paraphrase-class): source re-fetched live (sha256 6d5b998177dd6dde7e1b921f77c4d927bfe09640db78e0ebd7a1e78da9637187); all 3 quoted source fragment(s) verified live. Text remains a summary — verbatim recomposition queued.] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, fully-anchored): 3 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 d52cca5a1442fb3f6bb08df6069341c2b5173ed392b696f48940af880d59ca47; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/af/instructions), harvested 2026-08-04; each bullet is quoted whole from the page, whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]