Iraheta v. Equifax Information Services LLC et al

Filing 9

ORDER denying without prejudice 6 Motion Court Approval to File Case Documents via CM/ECF System. Signed by Magistrate Judge Amanda Arnold Sansone on 6/2/2017. (BEE)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA
TAMPA DIVISION

JOSE IRAHETA,
Plaintiff,
v.

Case No.: 8:17-cv-1303-T-36AAS

EQUIFAX INFORMATION SERVICES LLC,
et al.,
Defendants.
______________________________________/
ORDER
Before the Court is Plaintiff’s Motion for Court Approval to File Case Documents via
CM/ECF System (Doc. 6). Plaintiff, who is proceeding pro se, requests to be granted access to
the Electronic Case Filing (“ECF”) system for the purpose of filing documents electronically in
this case.
Pro se litigants are not permitted to file electronically and must file all pleadings and
documents in paper format with the appropriate divisional Clerk’s Office, unless granted
authorization to file electronically by the Court. Administrative Procedures for Electronic Filing
2, 7 (2015), http://www.flmd.uscourts.gov/CMECF/. Public access to documents filed through
the Court’s electronic filing system is established through the Public Access to Court Electronic
Records (“PACER”) website, http://www.pacer.gov.

PACER “is available to anyone who

registers for an account including attorneys, law firms, pro se litigants, government agencies, data
collectors, the media, and the general public.” Id. at 15.
Plaintiff has not stated whether he has obtained a PACER account, whether he has access
to the electronic equipment needed to utilize the PACER and ECF systems, or whether he has
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reviewed the Administrative Procedures for Electronic Filing (2015), which he is required to
follow if authorized to file electronically. See In Re: Administrative Procedures for Electronic
Filing in Civil and Criminal Cases, 6:07-MC-0027-ORL-19, at III(C) (M.D. Fla. Feb. 28, 2007),
http://www.flmd.uscourts.gov/CMECF/.
Accordingly and upon consideration, it is ORDERED that Plaintiff’s Motion for Court
Approval to File Case Documents via CM/ECF System (Doc. 6) is DENIED without prejudice.
DONE AND ORDERED in Tampa, Florida on this 2nd day of June, 2017.

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