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Chief Bankruptcy Judge
Hon. Albert S. Dabrowski
Clerk of Court
Deborah S. Hunt
Clerk's Office
ABRAHAM RIBICOFF FEDERAL BUILDING
450 Main Street
Hartford, CT 06103
(860) 240-3675
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| 11/05/09 |
CM/ECF
Release 3.3.3
The
CM/ECF system is expecting to go live with Release 3.3.3
on Saturday, November 7, 2009. This release will change
the login page so that the following message will
display when FILERS attempt to log into CM/ECF:
IMPORTANT:
All filings with the court - including attachments -
must comply with Fed. R. Bankr. P. 9037: Social Security
or taxpayer-identification numbers; dates of birth;
names of minor children; and financial account numbers
may not appear, except as allowed by the rule.
All filers will have to check the following box which
appears under the message:
I
understand that, if I file, I must comply with the
redaction rules. I have read this notice. Filers must
check this box and will not be able to continue logging
in until it is checked.
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| 8/26/09 |
Reaffirmation
Agreement Filing Deadline, effective 8/31/09
By amendments effective December 1, 2008,
Bankruptcy Rule 4008 (a) established the deadline
for the filing of objections to discharge as the
deadline for the filing of Reaffirmation Agreements,
subject to extension by the court. While most
Reaffirmation Agreements are timely filed, a
substantial number are not. The court has adopted a
new procedure addressing untimely filed agreements.
Effective August 31, 2009, any Reaffirmation
Agreement filed after the deadline for the filing
Reaffirmation Agreements will result in a deficiency
notice, and the matter will be set for hearing. The
court may, in its discretion, extend the time at the
hearing, or may strike the agreement. Additionally,
the Court’s Notice of § 341 Meeting will also
contain the deadline for filing a Reaffirmation
Agreement.
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| 7/17/09 |
National
Archives and Records Administration Acceptable Image
Quality Specifications:
The
Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts has been
working with the National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA), regarding archival preservation
and continued use of the scanned images in the
Judiciary's Case Management/Electronic Case File System
(CM/ECF). There is a need to have a scanning resolution
that produces a high quality document with a file size
that will not hamper the length of time it takes to
scan, load and retrieve documents.
In
the past, the recommendation from NARA was set at 200
dots per inch (dpi). Since that time, however, NARA has
published higher standards for scanning resolution,
which better support archival preservation. In efforts
to assist NARA in preserving and continuing the use of
scanned images in the Judiciary's Case
Management/Electronic Case File System, we are asking
for your assistance in this effort. It is strongly
recommended (although not required) that scanner
settings of 300 pixels per inch (ppi) or higher be used
for any scanned documents submitted to the court on CM/ECF.
See guidance below.
NARA
's Acceptable Image Quality Specifications:
3.2.1
Bitonal (1-bit) scanned at 300 - 600 ppi
This
is appropriate for documents that consist exclusively of
clean printed type possessing high inherent contrast
(e.g., laser printed or typeset on a white background
Scanning at 600 ppi is recommended.
3.2.2
Gray sale (8-bit) scanned at 300 - 400 ppi
This
is appropriate for textual documents of poor legibility
because of low inherent contrast, staining or fading
(e.g., carbon copies, thermofax, or documents with
handwritten annotations or other markings), or that
contain halftone illustrations or photographs. Scanning
at 400 ppi is recommended.
We
appreciate your cooperation in this matter. If you have
any questions about this, please feel free to contact
our ECF Help Desk.
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| 6/23/09 |
Chapter
13 Discharge Procedure goes into Effect, effective
6/22/09-
additions added, see below*
Pursuant
to 11 USC sec. 1328 (a) and (h) and 522(q), new Standing
Order 14 provides that in order for a debtor to receive
a discharge, the debtor must first file an Application
for Entry of Chapter 13 Discharge , Please note that
this a locally created form, and not the optional AO
form.
This
form will be sent to the debtors and their counsel by
the Standing Chapter 13 Trustee upon filing of the
Chapter 13 Final Report. The debtor must file the
Application within 20 days of filing of the Final
Account. The form is also available at the clerk's
offices and in the Forms section of our website.
The
clerk's office, upon receipt of the Application, will
issue a Notice of Filing of Application for Entry of
Chapter 13 Discharge. This notice will carry a 14
day bar date for the filing of any objections. If any
objections are filed, a hearing will be scheduled. If no
objections are filed and the debtor is otherwise
eligible a discharge will enter. If the Application is
not filed, the case may be closed without a discharge
after notice and hearing.
*In
addition to the Application for the Entry of
Discharge, the debtor must also, in order to receive
a discharge, file a Debtor’s Certification of
Financial Management (official form B23), and
a Financial Management Certificate (from agency)
Obtain the application here.
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| 2/26/09 |
CM/ECF
Release 3.2 and 3.3
The CM/ECF system is expecting to go live with Release
3.2 and 3.3 on March 2, 2009. In preparation for
these releases, please review Bankruptcy CM/ECF 3.2
Release notes by clicking on the link here.
and Bankruptcy CM/ECF 3.3 Release Notes by clicking on
the link. here
*Note... this can take a few minutes depending on the
speed of your connection.
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| 12/16/08 |
Pending
Change in the Bankruptcy Official Forms Effective
12/19/08
B 22A Statement of Current Monthly Income and Means Test
Calculation (Chapter 7) (12/08) - Effective 12/19/2008
Form | Committee
Note (Approved by the Judicial Conference on
11.18.08) |
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| 12/01/08 |
Amendment to Director's Procedural Form B201 (Effective 12/01/08)
B 201
Notice to Individual Consumer Debtor (12/08)
Form
| Committee note
Director's
Procedural Form B 201 has been amended to advise debtors
that Rule 4002 requires the debtor to notify the court
of any changes in the debtor's address. As revised, Form
B 201 also states that joint debtors who list the same
mailing address on the bankruptcy petition, will
generally receive a single copy of each notice mailed
from the bankruptcy court in a jointly-addressed
envelope. The revised form is effective on December 1,
2008. |
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| 11/18/08 |
PLEASE
TAKE NOTICE THAT LOCAL RULE OF BANKRUPTCY PROCEDURE
1073-1 HAS BEEN AMENDED AS FOLLOWS, Effective December
1, 2008
Local Bankruptcy
Rule 1073-1.
(A) All cases
shall be assigned by the clerk to a bankruptcy judge as
follows:
(i) those cases
in which the debtor resides or has its principal place
of business in Fairfield or Litchfield Counties shall be
assigned to the Bridgeport Division;
(ii) those cases
in which the debtor resides or has its principal place
of business in Middlesex or New Haven Counties shall be
assigned to the New Haven Division; and
(iii) those cases
in which the debtor resides or has its principal place
of business in Hartford, New London, Tolland or Windham
Counties shall be assigned to the Hartford Division.
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| 11/18/08 |
CHANGES
IN BANKRUPTCY FORMS - Effective December 1, 2008
Form B 1
- Exhibit D - Individual Debtor's Statement of
Compliance with Credit Counseling Requirement
Form | Committee
Note
Form B 8 - Chapter 7 Individual Debtor's
Statement of Intention
Form
| Committee
Note
Form B 23 -
Debtor's Certification of Completion of Postpetition
Instructional Course Concerning Financial Management
Form
No committee note. The paragraph
describing Filing Deadlines at the bottom of the form
was revised to include a reference to
1141(d)(5)(B). |
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| 10/23/08 |
Clerk's
Notice:
Contested
Matters Procedure
Please notice that the Contested Matters
procedures previously applicable in the
Bridgeport and New Haven divisions are now
available in the Hartford division as well. The
procedures differ from those enacted in 2005
only by the inclusion of the Hartford division.
All forms remain the same. |
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| 10/08/08 |
Clerk's
Notice:
NOTICE
AND REQUEST FOR COMMENT - PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO
LOCAL BANKRUPTCY RULE 1073-1
Please take notice that the judges of the
United States Bankruptcy Court for the District
of Connecticut propose that the following
changes to the assignment of cases within the
district take effect on December 1, 2008. The
changes are designed to effectuate the equitable
distribution of cases amongst the divisions in
light of the retirement of Judge Robert L.
Krechevsky. Please submit any comments to Clerk
of Court, Deborah S. Hunt, no later than
November 15, 2008. See here
for the complete notice. |
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| 10/07/08 |
Clerk's
Notice:
CM/ECF
Release 3.2 Postponed
POSTPONED until further notice
due to programming issues. The CM/ECF system is expecting to go live with
Release 3.2 on October 24, 2008. In
preparation for this release, please review CM/ECF
3.2 Bankruptcy Release notes by clicking on the
link here.
*Note... this can take a few minutes depending
on the speed of your connection. |
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| 10/01/08 |
Clerk's
Notice:
Notice
of Fees change.
There has been a change in fees
for splitting a Chapter 7, 11, 12 and 13 case
effective 10/01/2008 (Click here.) |
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| 9/04/08 |
Clerk's Notice:
Transferred Cases
Judge Robert L. Krechevsky retired from the bench as of August 31, 2008. His pending cases were transferred to Judge Albert S. Dabrowski who will hear the transferred cases in Hartford, unless otherwise ordered. Judge Dabrowski's New Haven cases will be heard in New Haven, unless otherwise ordered. |
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| 8/20/08 |
Clerk's
Notice:
NOTICE
OF FRAUDULENT ACTIVITY
(Click here.) |
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| 6/11/08 |
The
CM/ECF upgrade scheduled for June 28-29, 2008
has been postponed.
When the upgrade is
rescheduled the new date will be posted here.
Please continue to check back. |
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| 5/21/08 |
Note:
this has been postponed see above, During the
upgrade the system will not be available for
electronic filing. There will be several changes
to the way CM/ECF looks and works once the
release has been loaded. Please review the
attached Release Notes Here
and the learning module below
which highlight the major changes you, as a
PACER and ECF user, will notice once this
release is installed. Monday June 30th is the
anticipated live date of the new release.
For the Learning Module Click Here
Note this can take a few minutes depending
on the speed of your connection. |
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| 11/29/07 |
Clerk's
Notice:
Effective
December 1, 2007 the following forms will be
amended:
B l,
Voluntary Petition,
B 3A, Application and Order to
Pay Filing Fee in Installments
B 3B, Application for Waiver
of Chapter 7 Filing Fee
B 4, List of
Creditors Holding 20 Largest Unsecured Claims
B 5,
Involuntary Petition
B 6, Cover Sheet
for Schedules
B6,
Summary of Schedules (Includes Statistical
Summary of Certain Liabilities)
B6A-J, Schedules A-J -
B 6, Declaration
Concerning Debtor's Schedules
B 7, Statement of
Financial Affairs
B9, Notices
of Commencement of Case under the Bankruptcy
Code, Meeting of Creditors, and Deadlines
B9A-I, Notices
B 10, Proof Of Claim
B 16A, Caption
B 18, Discharge of
Debtor
B 19, Declaration and
Signature of Non-Attorney Bankruptcy Petition
Preparer
B 21, Statement of
Social Security Number
B 23, Debtor's
Certification of Completion of Instructional
Course Concerning Financial Management
B 24, Certification to
Court of Appeals
The new forms are available at the Federal
Judiciary's website by following this link: http://www.uscourts.gov/bankform/index.html#amendbk
The Court's website will not have the amended
forms available locally until mid-December.
Please use the link above to ensure you are
using the correct forms. |
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| 7/17/07 |
Clerk's
Notice:
Please take Notice that pursuant to 28 U.S.C.
�2071; Fed. R. Bankr. P. 9029; and Fed.
R. Civ. Proc. 83, the United States Bankruptcy
Court for the District of Connecticut proposes
to amend Local Bankruptcy Rules 5010-1, 7041-1
and 9010-1 and herewith seeks comments from the
bar and public thereon. Click
here to view the proposed rule amendments or
copies can be obtained at http://www.ctb.uscourts.gov
or the Clerk's offices in Hartford, New
Haven and Bridgeport.
Comments
should be submitted no later than August 15,
2007 to Deborah S. Hunt, Clerk of Court, 450
Main Street, Hartford, CT 06103
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| 3/28/07 |
Clerk's
Notice:
Please
be advised that several automatic adjustments to
amounts referred to in the Bankruptcy Act and
Title 28 will take effect on April 1. As a
consequence thereof various official bankruptcy
forms will also be modified. Please see the
attached memorandum for further information. The
amended forms should be available as of April 1,
2007 on the Court's website. Click
here to see notice: |
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| 1/23/07 |
Clerk's
Notice:
Adding, or modifying creditors is
permissible ONLY when being done in connection
with the filing of other matters. For example
creditors may be added or modified when filing a
Claim, filing a Notice of Appearance and Request
for Notice, Amending a Claim, or when filing
another creditor related ECF event. Any addition
or modification made without using an event will
be deleted by the clerk's office. In the event
creditor information should be changed without
an event, please contact the clerk's office. |
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| 1/23/07 |
Clerk's
Notice:
Please note that the Bankruptcy Subpoena Forms
B-254, B-255, and B-256 have been changed. For
further information please see click
here. The new forms supersede any previous
forms. |
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| 01/09/07 |
Clerk's
Notice:
Pay.gov
Change Effective February 1, 2007 Effective
February 1, 2007, all district and bankruptcy
court CM/ECF users that pay fees through the
Pay.gov system will be required to complete the
security code field to complete the transaction. |
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| 01/03/07 |
Clerk's
Notice:
Please
Note that certain fees have been modified
effective January 1, 2007. The new fees are
posted here
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| 12/10/2006
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Clerk's
Notice:
Effective December 11, 2006, when you file a
Proof of Claim or Amendment to Schedules, and
the creditor is not listed or listed
incorrectly, you will be given the opportunity
to add or modify the creditor during the process
of filing your claim and/or amendment. Please refer to our online tutorial on Adding
Creditors for instructions on how to add
creditors in this instance. |
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| 10/10/2006 |
Clerk's
Notice:
Effective
10/15/06 the Bankruptcy Court will be live on
Release 3.1 of CM/ECF. Release 3.1 is designed
primarily to facilitate new data collection and
statistical analysis as required by the
Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer
Protection Act of 2005. Docket event codes have
either been created or modified to allow for the
transmission of the data. Please refer to the
List of Changes created for Release 3.1 posted here. |
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| 02/05/2006 |
Clerk's
Notice:
Quick
Guide to Procedural Changes Brought About by the
Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer
Protection Act of 2005 (Click here.) |
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| 10/21/2005 |
Clerk's
Notice:
Interim
Bankruptcy Rules Adopted effective October 17,
2005 (Click here.) |
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| 10/03/2005 |
Implementation
of Bankruptcy Reform and Consumer Protection Act
of 2005
(Click here.) |
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| 07/22/2005 |
Clerk's
Notice:
Court's
Notice Re: Adopting CM/ECF (Click here.) |
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| 07/14/2005 |
Clerk's
Notice:
Notice
Re: Training (Click here.) |
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