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.