Guide § 13: Filing Deadlines; Technical Failures
Rules and Internal Operating Procedures of the Sixth Circuit — Sixth Circuit Guide to Electronic Filing
13.1. Filing documents electronically does not in any way alter any filing deadlines.
Where a specific time of day deadline is set by court order or stipulation, the electronic filing must be completed by that time. An electronically filed document is deemed filed upon completion of the transmission and issuance by the court's system of an NDA.
13.2. The clerk shall deem the court's website to be subject to a technical failure on a given day if the site is unable to accept filings continuously or intermittently over the course of any period of time greater than one hour after 12:00 noon (Eastern time) that day, in which case, filings due that day which were not filed due solely to such technical failures shall become due the next business day. Such delayed filings must be accompanied by a declaration or affidavit attesting to the filer's failed attempts to file electronically at least two times after 12:00 noon separated by at least one hour on each day of delay because of such technical failure. The initial point of contact for any practitioner experiencing difficulty filing a document electronically shall be the ECF Help Desk, available by phone at (513) 564-7000 during the hours 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Eastern time, Monday though Friday, or by e-mail at [email protected].