Local Rule RULE 5.9: COURT RECORD AND ORDERS
C.D. Ill. — Civil rule
RULE 5.9 COURT RECORD AND ORDERS
(A) Official Court Record.
The Clerk's Office will not maintain a paper court file except as otherwise provided in these Rules. The official court record is the electronic file maintained by the court, supplemented with any documents or exhibits conventionally filed in accordance with these Rules.
(B) Orders
(1) Judges' Signatures The assigned judge or the Clerk's Office will electronically file all signed orders. Any order signed electronically has the same force and effect as if the judge had affixed the judge's signature to a paper copy of the order and it had been entered on the docket conventionally.
(2) Proposed Orders.
Proposed orders must be submitted as attachments to motions. The presiding judge may request a copy of the proposed order be sent in Word or Word Perfect format (i.e., not .pdf) to the chambers e-mail address.
(3) Text-Only Orders The assigned judge may grant routine orders by a text-only entry upon the docket. When text-only entries are made, no separate .pdf document will issue; the text-only entry will constitute the Court's only order on the matter. The System will generate a "Notice of Electronic Filing."