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CM/ECF (Case Management/Electronic Case Files) is the case management and electronic court filing system for most of the United States federal courts. PACER , an acronym for Public Access to Court Electronic Records , is an interface to the same system for public use.
PACER (acronym for Public Access to Court Electronic Records) is an electronic public access service for United States federal court documents. It allows authorized users to obtain case and docket information from the United States district courts , United States courts of appeals , and United States bankruptcy courts .
The central source for information regarding NEFs remains in CM/ECF manuals. [2] [3] [4] [5]For example, the most explicit definition of the power and effect of NEF in the Central District of California, one of the most populous in the U.S., including Los Angeles County, remained in the "Unofficial Manual" of CM/ECF as follows (Rev 07, 2008, page 13): [2]
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (in case citations, E.D.N.Y.) is the federal district court whose territorial jurisdiction spans five counties in New York State: the four Long Island counties of Nassau, Suffolk, Kings (Brooklyn), and Queens, as well as Richmond (Staten Island), the latter three being among New York City's five boroughs.
These Districts were later further subdivided with the creation of the Eastern District on February 25, 1865 by 13 Stat. 438, [14] and the Western District on May 12, 1900, by 31 Stat. 175. [14] Public Law 95-408 (enacted October 2, 1978) transferred Columbia, Greene, and Ulster counties from the Southern to the Northern district. [15]
Unlike the Supreme Court, where one justice is specifically nominated to be chief, the office of chief judge rotates among the district court judges. To be chief, a judge must have been in active service on the court for at least one year, be under the age of 65, and have not previously served as chief judge.
Electronic court filing (ECF), or e-filing, is the automated transmission of legal documents from an attorney, party, or self-represented litigant to a court, from a court to an attorney, and from an attorney or other user to another attorney or other user of legal documents. [1]
The case number does not contain any type of court identifier, so a two-letter state abbreviation is needed, and when a state has multiple Federal districts, a two-letter abbreviation is needed to further disambiguate which court the case is in. The CM/ECF database system assigns a unique number to cases in each court, and it is this pacer ...