C.D. Ill. Civil LR 5.3

(A) “Case Management/Electronic Case Filing System,” also referred to as “the System”

or “CM/ECF,” means the Internet-based system for filing documents and

maintaining Court files in the District Court for the Central District of Illinois.

(B) “Conventional filing” means submitting a paper to the Clerk in a non-electronic,

tangible format. The Clerk will scan the paper submitted conventionally and file it

with CM/ECF.

(C) “Non-registered pro se party” means a person who is not registered to file papers or

receive notices by way of CM/ECF.

(D) “Electronic filing” means uploading a paper directly from the registered user’s

computer in Adobe PDF format, using CM/ECF, to file that paper in the Court’s case

file.

(E) “Notice of Electronic Filing” (or “NEF”) refers to the notice that is generated

automatically by the CM/ECF System at the time a paper is filed with the System,

setting forth the time of filing, the name of the party and attorney filing the paper, the

type of paper, the text of the docket entry, and an electronic link (hyperlink) to the

filed document, which allows recipients to retrieve the document automatically.

(F) “PACER” (“Public Access to Court Electronic Records”) is the automated system

that allows an individual to view, print, and download Court docket information via

the Internet.

(G) “PDF” refers to a document that exists in Portable Document Format. A document

file created with a word processor, or a paper document that has been scanned, must

be converted to portable document format before it can be electronically filed.

Converted files contain the extension “.pdf.”