Effective Date: September 23, 2016 Supersedes: August 23, 2008 and March 2, 2009
The Notice of Electronic Filing has an electronic file stamp that confirms the filing of your document and it is your receipt for the filing. At this point the entry on the court’s docket is official. Print or save a copy of the Notice of Electronic Filing.
All registered participants of the CM/ECF system who are a party in the case or request receipt of information on a particular case receive a Notice of Electronic Filing automatically each time a docket entry is made on the case.
The Notice of Electronic Filing contains a hypertext link under the document number to take you directly to the document. If a docket entry is a docket text only event there will be no document to display and no hypertext link.
The Notice of Electronic Filing provides electronic participants of CM/ECF “One Free Look” at the documents for 15 days that you and others file in a case via your email.
Exception: If the referenced document is a transcript, the free copy and 30-page limit do not apply.
If an attorney does not have a CM/ECF password and login, they do not have the ability to access the Notice of Electronic Filing (NOEF). They cannot access the NOEF via PACER.
You can select, if you prefer, to receive the Notice of Electronic Filing on an:
Individual basis – one email for each filing issued when the document is docketed.
Summary Report – one email listing all of the filings in the attorney/trustee cases for the day.
Select Individual basis or Summary Report using Utilities/Maintain Your ECF Email.
Attorneys receiving email Notice of Electronic Filings from CM/ECF do not receive a paper notice from the Bankruptcy Noticing Center (BNC) with the exception of the following docket events. Paper notices are sent in addition to the CM/ECF email Notice of Electronic Filing for these documents:
Notice of Meeting of Creditors.
Amended Notice of Meeting of Creditors.
Attorneys who elected to receive email or fax from the Bankruptcy Noticing Center, will not receive the email or fax if they are an e-filer with CM/ECF.
SPAM blocking software can prevent you from receiving the CM/ECF NOEF. Make sure you allow mail from the following email address: CM_ECF@iasb.uscourts.gov.
Do not reply to the Notice of Electronic Filing you receive via email. Call a court employee or email an individual at the court if you have any questions. Click here for Court Contacts.
Notice of Electronic Filing for some of the trustee docket events can be very long; do not print this email. Docket events generating long Notice of Electronic Filing email messages are:
Report of 341 Meeting.
Trustee's Report of No Distribution.
Continued 341 Meeting.