Notice of Financial System (JIFMS) Upgrade and Downtime: The national Judiciary Integrated Financial Management System (JIFMS) will be temporarily unavailable from Wednesday, June 11, 2025, through Thursday, June 26, 2025, due to essential system upgrades.

During this period, financial operations of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts (AO), courts, and judicial agencies will be impacted. Specifically, Treasury-issued checks and Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) disbursements originating in JIFMS—including jury disbursements, restitution payments, eVoucher payments, and judiciary travel reimbursements—will be delayed until the upgraded system goes live on Friday, June 27, 2025.

Additionally, while JIFMS is offline, the Court will be unable to process transactions supporting the deposit and withdrawal of funds in the Court Registry Investment System (CRIS). As a result, registry funds collected during this time cannot be invested, which may affect earned interest.

For vendors supporting court administration, the Court is proactively managing this downtime by issuing solicitations, awards, and procurement obligations either before or after the outage. During the system downtime, purchase and award activities will be limited to emergency or critical procurements only. Invoices or vouchers submitted after June 4, 2025, should expect payment no earlier than July 7, 2025.

The Court remains committed to financial integrity and fulfilling its obligations promptly. We appreciate your patience and sincerely regret any inconvenience this temporary disruption may cause.

ATTN COUNSEL: Please see the 2025 Virtual POWER ACT event being held June 24 @ 1:00pm EST. It is "AN ACT TO PROMOTE PRO BONO LEGAL SERVICES AS A CRITICAL WAY IN WHICH TO EMPOWER SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE". Link to Registration.

MFA coming to CM/ECF: In mid-May, the U.S. Courts will begin implementing Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) to enhance system security for Case Management/Electronic Case Files (CM/ECF) and Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER). MFA provides an added layer of security to accounts by helping protect against cyberattacks that steal passwords, significantly reducing the risk of unauthorized access.
IMPACT: After implementation, all CM/ECF users with filing and/or other types of CM/ECF-level access will be required to enroll in MFA. Users with PACER-only access will have the option to enroll.
From mid-May to the end of 2025, users with any type of CM/ECF-level access who do not voluntarily enroll will be randomly selected to do so. These randomly selected CM/ECF users will be notified of the MFA requirement during login. By the end of 2025, everyone with CM/ECF-level access will be required to use MFA when logging in.

TELEPHONE and EMAIL SCAMS: Attorney's offices from around the country are reporting emails and calls that have spoofed US District Court phone numbers and email addresses. Please be aware that this activity is NOT from the Court, but rather bad actors wishing to cause disruption. Please ignore the calls/emails that fall outside normal business practices from this Court.
Additionally, we are being contacted by people who say the US Courts are calling them about paying a fine for different fake violations. These calls are NOT coming from the US Courts - please do NOT pay them and do not give out any person information. This is a scam. Just hang up.

CM FILERS: CM/ECF filers should be aware of the potential to inadvertently share restricted documents when using third-party services or software.
Sharing your PACER account credentials with a third-party service provider or designating that provider as a secondary recipient of a Notice of Electronic Filing or Notice of Docket Activity (NEF/NDA) will give it access to sealed or restricted case information and documents in violation of court order. You are urged to use caution in your computer security practices to ensure that sealed or restricted documents to which you have access are not disclosed.