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Court Fees

All fees incurred in the electronic filing system (CM/ECF) are payable by credit card or direct debit through the pay.gov system. These include appeal fees, pro hac vice application fees, and case initiating fees.

Acceptable Forms of Payment

Domestic money orders, a bank cashier’s check, and cash (exact change only) are acceptable forms of payment. A credit/debit card will be accepted for payment, with proper identification, when the request is made in person at the public filing counter of any division. Personal and/or business checks will be accepted only from current members of the bar of this Court in good standing.

 

Filing Fees

$405.00

Civil Filing fee

$405.00

Writ of Mandamus

$605.00

Appeal Fee

$41.00

Appeal to a district judge from a judgment or conviction by a magistrate in a misdemeanor case

$5.00

Writ of Habeas Corpus

 

 

Miscellaneous Filing Fees

$52.00

Registering a judgment from another district (28 U.S.C. § 1963)

$52.00

Miscellaneous Cases

 

  • For filing or indexing any paper not in a case or proceeding for which a filing fee has been paid

  • Petition to perpetuate testimony (Fed. R. Civ. P. 27(a))

  • Filing of papers by trustees under 28 U.S.C. § 754

  • Filing of letters rogatory

  • Letters of Request

  • Notice to Take Deposition (case pending in another District Court/ request for this District to issue subpoena)

  • Motion to enforce IRS summons

 

 

Miscellaneous Fees

$70.00

Retrieval of a record from Federal Records Center (for the first box)

$43.00

Retrieval of a record from Federal Records Center (for each additional box shipped per case)

$20.90

Retrieval of an electronic record using SmartScan (plus an additional $.65 per page)

$53.00

Payment returned or denied for insufficient funds, or reversed due to a chargeback

$52.00

Power of Attorney - per person - per division

$34.00

Clearance Letter - per name (plus $.50 for each non-certified copy requested)

$34.00

Record Search (per name or item searched)

$34.00

Reproduction of an audio recording of a court proceeding

$33.00

Reproduction of records in electronic form not available on PACER or CM/ECF

$24.00

Exemplification certificate - (in addition $.50 for copy, $11.00 for certifying)

$21.00

Certificate of Good Standing

$21.00

Certificate of Admission (duplicate)

$50.00

Issuance of an apostille

$12.00

Certification of any document

$0.50

Per page for reproducing any record or paper (from original document or microfiche reproductions of the original record)