Local Rule Rule 5005-4: Electronic Filing

Rule 5005-4 Electronic Filing

(a) Electronic Filing

(1) Except as otherwise provided in these rules, or when exceptional circumstances prevent an entity from filing electronically, all papers required to be filed with the court shall be filed electronically.

(2) For each paper submitted for filing via conventional means that is required to be filed electronically pursuant to the Court's Administrative Procedures for Filing, Signing, Verifying, and Maintaining Pleadings and Other Papers in the Electronic Case Filing (ECF) System, an Order to Show Cause shall be entered, setting the matter for hearing at least 21 days after service of said Order. At this hearing, the attorney filer will be required to show cause as to why sanctions in the amount of $25.00 for each paper submitted to the Clerk for filing via conventional means should not be imposed. The Clerk shall issue a notice canceling said hearing, only upon the filing of a Consent to Order Imposing Sanctions, accepting the sanctions as defined, signed by the filing attorney within 14 days of the date of the original Order to Show Cause.

(3) The filing of a petition, pleading, motion or other paper in the Court's electronic filing system must comport with the requirements and procedures established through the Court's Administrative Procedures for Filing, Signing, Verifying, and Maintaining Pleadings and Other Papers in the Electronic Case Filing (ECF) System.

(4) A petition, pleading, motion, or other paper filed electronically by an attorney who is a registered participant in the Electronic Case Filing System shall be the equivalent of a filed paper containing the written signature of that attorney under Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure 9011.

(5) The electronic filing of a pleading or other paper in accordance with the Procedures shall constitute entry of that pleading or other paper on the docket kept by the Clerk under Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure 5003.

(6) The Clerk shall enter all orders, decrees, judgments, and proceedings of the court in accordance with the Procedures, and such entry shall be an entry on the docket under Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure 5003 and 9021.

(7) Notice of Electronic Filing

(A) Whenever a pleading or other paper is filed electronically, at the time of its docketing, the Electronic Case Filing System will automatically generate a Notice of Electronic Filing and serve it on all registered participants entitled to service of the notice.

(B) The filing party shall, under applicable rules, serve the pleading or other paper upon all entities entitled to service who are not registered participants in the Electronic Case Filing System.

(C) If the entity entitled to service is a registered participant in the Electronic Case Filing System, service of the Notice of Electronic Filing shall be the equivalent of service of the pleading or other paper by first-class mail, postage prepaid.

(b) Passwords

(1) Participation in the Electronic Case Filing System by registering with PACER and requesting permission to file shall constitute a request for service and notice electronically pursuant to Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure. 9036. Participants in the Electronic Case Filing System agree to receive notice and service by electronic means.

(2) An attorney shall not permit his or her password to be used by anyone other than an authorized employee of his or her law firm.

(3) No one shall intentionally use or cause another person to use the password of a registered attorney unless such person is an authorized employee of the law firm.