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LR 5.4 Service Of Documents Through The Court's Electronic Transmission Facilities
A party may serve a paper under Fed. R. Civ. P. 5(b)(2)(E) by using the court's electronic transmission facilities in accordance with the court's most recent ECF Guides. If a document is served electronically, the notice of electronic filing generated by the court's electronic transmission facilities constitutes a certificate of service with respect to those persons to whom electronic notice of the filing is sent, and no separate certificate of service need be filed with respect to those persons.
[Adopted effective May 17, 2004; amended January 31, 2011]
2011 Advisory Committee's Note to LR 5.4
The language of LR 5.4 has been amended as part of the general restyling of the Local Rules to make them more easily understood and internally consistent. These changes are intended to be stylistic only.
Local Rule 5.4 is amended to no longer require the filing of a separate certificate of service if service was conducted electronically through the court's electronic transmission facilities (ECF). When service is conducted electronically, the notice of electronic filing (NEF) may serve as the certificate of service to comply with Fed. R. Civ. P. 5(d)(1).
2004 Advisory Committee Note to LR 5.4
The 2001 Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure permitted district courts to authorize service by electronic means "through the court's transmission facilities." Fed.R.Civ.P. 5(b)(2)(D). Accordingly, new Local Rule 5.4 explicitly authorizes service by electronic means via the court's electronic filing facilities.
The 2001 Amendments also provided that the additional three days established in Rule 6(e) for service by mail applies to service by electronic means. Fed.R.Civ.P. 6(e).
Counsel are encouraged to consult the electronic service provisions of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedures, as amended in 2001. LR 5.4 does not modify the Federal Rules in any way. Counsel are encouraged, further, to consult the most recently adopted version of the Electronic Filing Procedures for the District of Minnesota for further clarification on administrative procedures for filing and serving by electronic means.