Urgent Notice: Outlook Outage Nov. 12, 2026

Date: 11/12/2026

As of about 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 12, 2026, the Judicial Branch began experiencing an email outage. The outage is part of a Microsoft Outlook outage that is spread throughout North America. As of 4:30 p.m., the outage has not been resolved, nor do we have an estimated time for a resolution from Microsoft.

For anyone who filed a request for a protection order by email after 12:30 p.m. today, your request may not have been received by the courts. Please consider filing a paper copy of the request with the court tomorrow morning.