Local Rule Rule 2002-1: Notice to Creditors and Other Interested Parties
Bankr. N.D. Iowa — General rule
Rule 2002‐1 Notice to Creditors and Other Interested Parties
(a) In cases under chapter 7, 11, 12 or 13 , the meeting of creditors under 11 U.S.C. § 341 may be set on 14 days' notice.
(b) Request for Notices
(1) A creditor, equity security holder, or other entity may file a document entitled "Request for Notices." A Request for Notices must be served on the following parties, and a proof of service must be filed with the Clerk:
(A) the United States Trustee;
(B) any case or standing trustee;
(C) any committee elected or appointed in the case or the committee's attorney if one has been employed; and
(D) the debtor's attorney, or debtor if debtor is pro se.
(2) The Clerk shall not add an entity to the list of entities requesting notices unless the entity has complied with the service and proof of service requirements.
(3) A creditor who files and serves a Request for Notices shall thereafter be entitled to all limited notices which may be served in the case. Such notices are in addition to those notices for which the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure require service on all creditors and in addition to those notices which must be served on the creditor as a party against whom relief is sought.
(4) Any entity who is not a creditor, a debtor, or an indenture trustee, and who files and serves a Request for Notices shall thereafter be entitled to all notices for which the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure require service on all creditors and to all limited notices which may be served in the case.
(5) For purposes of this Rule, the term "limited notices" means any notices which the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure require to be served pursuant to Court direction by the following or similar language: "such other entity as may be designated by the Court," "on notice as the Court may direct," to "any entity as the Court may direct," to "other party as the Court may direct," to "entities designated by the Court," to "other entities as directed by the Court," to "other parties in interest as the Court directs," or to "other parties in interest as the Court may designate."
"Limited notices" also means any notices which pursuant to the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure are required to be served on all creditors but for which the Court enters an order directing service on fewer than all creditors.
(6) An entity entitled to limited notices shall be entitled to such notice regardless of whether the Court directs notice to that entity unless the Court specifically directs otherwise.
(7) An entity who by court order under the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure or these Local Rules is required to serve a notice shall be responsible for serving the notice in accordance with this Rule.
(8) A list of entities that file Requests for Notices in a case is available via CM/ECF.
(9) Filing a Request for Notices does not effectuate a change in the address of a creditor, equity security holder or indenture trustee as it was originally shown in the creditor list or schedules and as shown in the mailing matrix. The service address of a scheduled or listed creditor, equity security holder or indenture trustee is changed only pursuant to Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure 2002(g).