Completed but Defective Electronic Filings

The Clerk’s Office will examine most electronic filings as part of the ECF quality control process. If a completed filing is defective for any reason, the E-Filer will receive an automated Deficiency Notice describing the nature of the deficiency. Examples of deficient filings might include a garbled or incomplete Internet transmission, receipt of a document that on inspection is not what it was purported to be, an electronic document that is missing a required signature, or a motion with an attached proposed order. After the E-Filer receives a Notice of Deficiency, he or she will have twenty-four (24) hours from the date and time of the original filing to file a corrected document in order to preserve the date and time stamp of the original, deficient filing.

If the deficient filing is not corrected within this 24-hour period, the original filing is no longer in effect for any reason and can no longer be used to preserve its date and time stamp. Basically, no document will have been filed relative to the subject matter of the first, deficient, filing.