Local Rule LR 5.02: ELECTRONIC FILING AND SERVICE

LR 5.02 – ELECTRONIC FILING AND SERVICE

(a) Electronic Service of Pleadings and Other Filed Documents. For all electronic filings not required to be served under Fed. R. Civ. P. 4, receipt of the Notice of Electronic Filing (NEF) generated by CM/ECF shall constitute service of the electronically filed document on persons registered as Electronic Filing Users. Electronic service is complete upon transmission.

(b) Electronic Service Upon Pro Se Parties. Except for documents required to be served pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 4, pro se parties may consent in writing to receive electronic service of documents from CM/ECF. A pro se party who consents to service via CM/ECF must complete and sign a Consent to Electronic Service form for each case in which the pro se party consents to electronic service. The Consent to Electronic Service form is available on the Court's website or from the Clerk's Office. Consent to electronic service will not be effective until the Clerk's Office dockets the signed consent form in the applicable case. Once a pro se party's consent to electronic service is docketed and effective, the pro se party may be served through CM/ECF. Absent consent under this rule, a pro se party can be served by any means authorized by Fed. R. Civ. P. 5(b)(2).

(c) Effect and Timing of Electronic Filing. Each electronically filed document, as stored by the Court, becomes a part of the Court's official record and the filing party is bound by the document as filed. An electronically filed document is deemed filed as of the date and time stated in the NEF generated by the CM/ECF system. Filing a document electronically does not alter the filing deadline for that document. For a document to be considered timely filed on a deadline date, the filing must be completed on the deadline date before midnight Central Time.