Filing and Entry of Orders

All orders, decrees and judgments of the court will be electronically entered into the case docket by the court or court personnel, and shall constitute an entry on the docket for any and all rules and purposes under the Federal Rules of Civil and Criminal Procedure. These orders, decrees and judgments may include electronically signed documents separate from their related docket entry text, and the filing of such orders, decrees, and judgments shall generate an NEF at the time of docketing. The court may also issue routine orders by a text-only docket entry for which an NEF will also be generated. In such routine orders, also referred to as “minute orders,” no separate PDF document will be issued, and the text-only entry shall constitute the court’s only order on the matter.

Such text-only docket orders are official and binding even without the production of any sort of separate signed, written, or electronic document.