The file review area is open to the public from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday and is located in the Clerk's Office lobby, Room 4290, in the Federal Building at 880 Front Street, San Diego.

The Clerk's Office allows customers to print their own copy work at a computer work station for a fee of $.10 per page. Copies provided by Clerk's Office personnel are $.50 per page. To receive a certified copy of a document, the Clerk's Office must make the copies and perform the certification. The fee to certify a document is $11.00 plus the cost of the copies.

Records can be accessed in several ways:

  • View the docket and images of filed documents on the Internet or in the Clerk's Office Lobby via CM/ECF PACER
  • Request the file from File Review in the Clerk's Office Lobby
  • Request an archived file from the Federal Records Center