Electronic Filing in Civil Cases

Throughout these Local Rules, the terms “electronic filing,” “electronically filed,” and “filed electronically” refer to the submission of documents for filing through the Court’s CM/ECF System. Except as provided in L.R. 5-4.2, all documents filed in civil cases must be filed electronically. Neither sending a document to the Court by email nor submitting a document through the Court’s Electronic Document Submission System constitutes an electronic filing. To file documents using the CM/ECF System, an attorney must obtain an individual account login and password from the federal judiciary’s national Public Access to Court Electronic Records (“PACER”) system (www.pacer.gov) and link this account to the Court’s CM/ECF System.

After the attorney’s PACER account has been linked to the Court’s CM/ECF System, the attorney must use the PACER-issued login and password to file documents through the Court’s CM/ECF System.