In Person by Default; Zoom Only With E-Mailed Approval — Division JL

Source of truth

"All hearings will be held IN PERSON, with the exception of special circumstances" / "counsel of record/pro se litigants may contact the Court for zoom approval by sending an e-mail" / "A notice of hearing involving any remote appearance must list the judge's insert remote platform credentials"

Official source

15th Cir. — Division JL Instructions (Judge Volker)

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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-jl-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation).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 b784048ee1bd24e902a23c39d27d88c178176b9549b0339642513c41190ce631); all 3 quoted source fragment(s) verified live. Text remains a summary — verbatim recomposition queued.] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, fully-anchored): 2 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 b784048ee1bd24e902a23c39d27d88c178176b9549b0339642513c41190ce631; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/jl/instructions), harvested 2026-08-04; each bullet is quoted whole from the page, whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]