The Clerk’s Office provides the Guidelines to assist parties in properly filing Bills of Costs with this Court. Litigants are encouraged to review this document thoroughly. They are subject to exception and modification as needed in the interests of justice, and nothing in the Guidelines is meant to expand or limit the authority of this Court or the Clerk to tax costs under 28 U.S.C. § 1920. Please use the Guidelines in conjunction with the Federal Rules of Civil and Appellate Procedure, and the Local Rules of this Court.