The "Required Statement to Accompany Motions for Relief from Stay" form has been revised, effective August 18, 2009, which now requires post-petition payment history in Chapter 13 cases. Please begin using this new form immediately.

The court will be installing a new version of CM/ECF the weekend of August 21 - 22, Version 3.3.2. To accomplish this CM/ECF will be removed from service at 4:00 P.M., Friday, August 21st.  Service is expected to be restored by Saturday afternoon or evening the 22nd.
 
If you wish to try the new version of CM/ECF you may do so by visiting "https://ecf-test.ilnb.uscourts.gov/" and logging-in. The same login name and password you use in our Live area will work in the Test area. Please be certain you are in the Test area. Our test area will look like the image in the following link: CM/ECF Test Area image.  If it does not looks like this sample DO NOT perform any data entry.

If you or your organization have developed any automated processes used with CM/ECF we strongly urge you to test them in our Test area before you use them with this version of CM/ECF.  Additional information may be found by selecting this link.

We understand that many users of the court's electronic filing systems have experienced performance issues over the past months.

The court, working with elements of national system support, has developed a plan to move to a new processing platform. The new equipment will be a considerable step up in capability. The new equipment is on site and is undergoing setup, configuration and considerable testing.

Our move to the new equipment is predicated upon the court using CM/ECF v3.3.2. The final CM/ECF version of this software was released only within the past two weeks. It is being tested as of this writing and plans call for its installation, tentatively, the weekend of August 21, 2009 (more to follow under separate cover). We estimate the new system platform will come on-line during the first half of September.

We hope this information may assuage the frustration many are feeling as a result of poor system performance.

In an effort to cure performance issues encountered this week, CM/ECF will be stopped allowing certain configuration changes to be made. It is not certain that these changes will rectify all issues. We will continue to monitor and make other changes we feel may be of help.