When is an Illinois original-date motion due after a qualifying e-filing system failure?

Identify the court-approved filing system and preserve evidence of its actual failure.

Establish that the failure prevented timely filing and identify the later-filed document.

Use the qualifying failure date, rather than a later clerk notice or earlier unrelated submission.

1. Identify the court-approved filing system and preserve evidence of its actual failure.
2. Exclude the actual triggering day. Count only court days, omitting intermediate Saturdays, Sundays, statutory holidays and any additional closure on the proper court’s actual calendar. The bundled Illinois calendar covers 2026 and 2027. Do not use ordinary calendar-day addition.
3. Check statutory holidays and the proper court’s actual calendar.
4. Complete the particular act in the proper court.

Section 1.11 excludes a final Saturday, Sunday or statutory holiday and consecutive excluded days. Section 17(a) of the Promissory Note and Bank Holiday Act includes Pulaski Day, Good Friday and the general election for members of the House of Representatives. Check proclamations, the proper court’s actual calendar and clerk access separately. The bundled Illinois calendar covers 2026 and 2027.

Fictitious example

Fictitious facts. A court-approved filing system failure prevents timely filing and the party has the later-filed document. The established event is August 2, 2027. No additional local closure or different court order is assumed.

Fictitious facts. The civil procedure classification and triggering event are independently established. No additional closure, court order or unmodeled restart is assumed.

A qualifying system failure must prevent timely filing

Rule 9(f)(2) applies to technical failure of a court-approved electronic filing system that makes the document untimely. A device problem or unsupported assertion does not itself establish this qualifying event.

State facts and attach the document

The motion must state the failure date and circumstances and include the document as an exhibit. Preserve the actual failure evidence and later filing.

The court establishes the effective date

Upon the required showing and a timely motion, Rule 9(f)(2)(B) directs the court to grant relief and enter an order establishing the effective filing date. Rule 9(f)(3) addresses jurisdiction over a timely motion.

• The calculator does not decide the applicable civil procedure, disputed facts, sufficiency of a filing or whether the court grants relief.
• Check the governing edition and actual orders. A current rule does not establish every historical case’s timetable.

• Identify the court-approved filing system and preserve evidence of its actual failure.
• Establish that the failure prevented timely filing and identify the later-filed document.
• Use the qualifying failure date, rather than a later clerk notice or earlier unrelated submission.
• Rule 9(f)(2) applies to technical failure of a court-approved electronic filing system that makes the document untimely. A device problem or unsupported assertion does not itself establish this qualifying event.
• The motion must state the failure date and circumstances and include the document as an exhibit. Preserve the actual failure evidence and later filing.
• Upon the required showing and a timely motion, Rule 9(f)(2)(B) directs the court to grant relief and enter an order establishing the effective filing date. Rule 9(f)(3) addresses jurisdiction over a timely motion.
• File a motion stating the failure date and circumstances and attach the document requested to receive the failure date. Preserve evidence supporting prevention of timely filing and the actual order establishing the effective date. File with the proper clerk in the required format. Rule 9 ordinarily requires civil electronic filing, subject to its exceptions and exemptions. Rule 9(f) ordinarily requires submission before midnight in the court time zone unless a statute, rule or actual order specifies a different time. A submission on a closed clerk day ordinarily receives the next open-day stamp. Preserve the actual electronic file mark, receipt and any filing-relief order. Filing and service are distinct acts.