Guide § 10: Service of Documents

10.1. Registered attorneys must comply with Fed. R. App. P. 25 when filing electronically. The ECF system will automatically generate and send by e-mail an NDA to all registered attorneys participating in any case. This notice constitutes service on those registered attorneys. Registration for electronic filing by the ECF system constitutes consent to service through the NDA. Independent service, either by paper or otherwise, need not be made on any registered attorney. Pro se litigants and attorneys who are not registered for electronic filing must be served by the filing party through the conventional means of service set forth in Fed. R.

App. P. 25. When serving a party other than through the court’s electronic-filing system, a party must include a certificate of service required by Fed. R. App. P. 25(d).

10.2. Except as may be otherwise provided by local rule or order of the court, all orders, opinions, judgments and other court-issued documents in cases maintained in the ECF system will be filed electronically, which filing will constitute entry on the docket maintained by the clerk under Fed. R. App. P. 36 and 45(b).

Any order, opinion, judgment, or other court-issued document filed electronically without the signature of the judge, clerk, or authorized deputy clerk has the same effect as if the judge or clerk had signed a paper copy of the filing.