A couple of procedural changes have been implemented in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Texas:

The paper reduction module has been implemented, which means all parties in a case that receive a notice of electronic filing (NEF) will no longer receive a paper notice from the Bankruptcy Noticing Center. All electronic filer’s email addresses need to be kept current for this reason. Parties in a case that do not receive an NEF will continue to receive the paper notice.  The exception to this is the 341 meeting notice; all parties receive a paper copy from BNC on this notice.

Transcripts received by the Court will now be held for seven days in order to allow persons involved in that particular hearing an opportunity to file a notice to redact any personal identifiers found within the transcript.  Those parties will be notified by email of the receipt of the transcript and the pertinent deadlines for requesting redaction.  Personal identifiers include social security numbers, dates of birth, names of minor children and financial account numbers (except for the last four digits of the SSN and the account number).  The event in CM/ECF to state the intent to redact can be found under Bankruptcy or Adversary/Notices/Notice of Intent to Redact Transcript Information.  If, after seven days following receipt of a transcript, the Court has not received this filed notice, the Clerk's office will docket the original transcript, in which the pdf will be sealed for a period of 90 days, per Judicial Conference policy.  If the notice of intent to redact is filed with the Court, the filing party has 21 days to review the transcript and submit to the transcriber a list of the information that needs to be redacted.  Once the Court receives the redacted transcript, the Clerk's office will docket that version and the pdf will be sealed for the 90 day period as mentioned above.

If you have any questions contact any TXEB Clerk's office.