First Cir. — Judge John L. Miller: Proposed orders (practice preferences)

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The Code of Judicial Conduct precludes judicial assistants from making substantive inquiries of the judge on behalf of any attorney or litigant involved in the action. The Code prohibits all judges from considering ex parte (one side only) communications. All correspondence to the judge, whether by email or letter, must be copied to opposing counsel (or party, if pro se) unless an ex parte communication is authorized by law.

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1st Circuit — official site

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Reviewer note: Harvested from the circuit's public Sanity dataset (project xf5z3ibd, dataset production), which is the same store the site itself renders from. Only mandatory-language sentences are reproduced. | 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. | 2026-08-03: source_url repaired from the site root to the judge's own page, whose route payload answered live. | 2026-08-03: quoted text verified present in the judge page route payload; high restored after the source_url repair.