Local Rule Rule 2002-2: Notice to United States or Federal Agency

Rule 2002‐2 Notice to United States or Federal Agency

(a) The Clerk shall cooperate with the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa in compiling a list of agencies, departments, administrations, and services of the United States which are commonly scheduled as creditors in bankruptcies filed in this district. The Clerk shall keep a permanent record of the list's addresses and their effective dates. The current list is available on the Court's website.

(b) The list will be used by the debtor to provide the addresses of the United States as creditor in the debtor's schedules, statements, lists and the matrix filed in the case.

Service on the United States using an address from the then‐current list creates a presumption of proper service on the governmental unit for notices served pursuant to Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure 2002, Local Rule 2002-1 and for notices served by Court direction. The presumption does not apply to notices required to be given to the United States as a party against whom relief is sought in any contested matter or adversary proceeding.

(c) In addition to the specific agencies, departments, administrations and services of the United States, the matrix of creditors shall also include the current address of the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa, whose address shall be available on the Court's website. A matrix listing for the United States Attorney must include a designation of each scheduled agency, department, administration or service using its initials, e.g. "United States Attorney (FSA)."

(d) A debtor is not excused from scheduling and listing a United States governmental unit merely because the debtor's creditor is not included in the Clerk's list.