{"id":5448,"date":"2015-08-05T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=5448"},"modified":"2015-08-02T21:28:50","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T02:28:50","slug":"u-s-court-of-appeals-reverses-dismissal-of-case-involving-electronic-filing-before-the-running-of-the-statute-of-limitations-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-of-appeals-reverses-dismissal-of-case-involving-electronic-filing-before-the-running-of-the-statute-of-limitations-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Court of Appeals Reverses Dismissal of Case Involving Electronic Filing Before the Running of the Statute of Limitations Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a civil rights lawsuit under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/42\/1983\">42 U.S.C. \u00a71983<\/a>, Danny Farley hired an attorney who began the process of filing the complaint in the Southern District of Illinois in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_St._Louis,_Illinois\">East St. Louis, Ill. <\/a>The local rules in the district require that documents be filed electronically through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacer.gov\/cmecf\/\">CM\/ECF system<\/a>. Attorneys must use this system to file documents unless they have received a special exemption.<\/p>\n<p>Under the rules in place at the time, e-filers could not open a new case in CM\/ECF on their own. Rather, they had to submit civil cases by e-mail in PDF form to the proper divisional mailbox. Upon receipt, the division clerk would open a new case in the CM\/ECF system and inform the attorney that they could proceed in filing further documents.<\/p>\n<p>On March 8, 2011 at 4:15 p.m., an assistant to Farley\u2019s attorney e-mailed the complaint and civil cover sheet to the proper e-mail address. The clerk\u2019s office responded at 5:11 p.m. with a notice stating that a new civil case had been opened, but the complaint was not being filed with the clerk until it was transmitted to the CM\/ECF system.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-of-appeals-reverses-dismissal-of-case-involving-electronic-filing-before-the-running-of-the-statute-of-limitations-deadline\/#more-5448\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a civil rights lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. \u00a71983, Danny Farley hired an attorney who began the process of filing the complaint in the Southern District of Illinois in East St. Louis, Ill. The local rules in the district require that documents be filed electronically through the CM\/ECF system. 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