Local Rule RULE 5.4: DEFINITIONS FOR ELECTRONIC FILING
C.D. Ill. — Civil rule
RULE 5.4 DEFINITIONS FOR ELECTRONIC FILING
(A) "Case Management/Electronic Case Filing System," also referred to as "the System" or "CM/ECF," means the Internet-based system for filing documents and maintaining court files in the District Court for the Central District of Illinois.
(B) "Conventional filing" means submitting a document or pleading to the Court in paper or other non-electronic, tangible format. Documents submitted conventionally will be scanned, uploaded, filed and maintained in CM/ECF unless these Rules provide otherwise.
(C) "Electronic filing" means uploading a pleading or document directly from the registered user's computer in Adobe PDF format, using CM/ECF, to file that pleading or document in the Court's case file. Sending a document or pleading to the Court via e-mail does not constitute "electronic filing."
(D) "Notice of Electronic Filing" (or NEF) refers to the notice that is generated automatically by the CM/ECF System at the time a document is filed with the System, setting forth the time of filing, the name of the party and attorney filing the document, the type of document, the text of the docket entry, and an electronic link (hyperlink) to the filed document, which allows recipients to retrieve the document automatically.
(E) "PACER" (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) is the automated system that allows an individual to view, print, and download court docket information via the Internet.
(F) "PDF" refers to a document that exists in Portable Document Format. A document file created with a word processor, or a paper document that has been scanned, must be converted to portable document format before it can be electronically filed. Converted files contain the extension ".pdf".