The United States District Court for the District of Delaware has announced new procedures for assignment of cases to Senior Judge Gregory M. Sleet in light of Judge Sleet’s retirement from the bench during the fall of 2018 and two current District Judge vacancies on the Court. With respect to new civil cases, for the time being, Senior Judge Sleet will continue to draw a share of new civil cases equal to that of the Court’s active District Judges. The Court has begun the process of reassigning a portion of the civil cases currently on Judge Sleet’s docket – primarily those scheduled for trial in 2018. With respect to criminal cases, Judge Sleet will no longer be assigned new criminal matters beginning sometime in the spring of 2018. At and after that time, all new criminal cases will be assigned to the Court’s active District Judges.

In the announcement, the Court clarified that the procedures for the assignment of cases to the Vacant Judgeship docket (“VAC”) remain unchanged and no new visiting judges have been added to the list since the September 2017 announcement.

A copy of the Announcement is attached.

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