Certificates of services are required for almost every court filings. Attorneys generally copy-paste some perfunctory prose for decades without ever revising the text for ongoing changes to state and federal rules of procedure. I offer these suggestions for modernizing certificates of service. Here is my omnibus modernization.
Alabama Courts (not efiled)
[_________________] affirms that on the same day which he transmits these papers to The Court, he also transmits a copy of the same with appropriate expediency to the entities stated below by personal delivery to a responsible party at the location stated (when convenient), by placement in a recipient’s courthouse receptacle (when available), by facsimile transmission (when appropriate), by electronic mail (when consented), by electronic filing (when permitted), and/or by conveying the same through, and in the manner required by, the United States Postal Service, addressed as stated.
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_____________________, Ala _________
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(____) _____-_______
So Affirmed,
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Alabama Courts (efiled)
____________ invokes the rules providing for service of efilings by and through The Court’s case management system and affirms that upon electronically filing these papers, a copy of the same will be electronically transmitted to…
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______________________, Ala _________
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The following parties not served by and through The Court’s system are this day served a copy of the same with appropriate expediency by personal delivery to a responsible party at the location stated (when convenient), by placement in a recipient’s courthouse receptacle (when available), by facsimile transmission (when appropriate), by electronic mail (when consented), by electronic filing (when permitted), and/or by conveying the same through, and in the manner required by, the United States Postal Service, addressed as stated to
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_____________________, Ala _________
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(____) _____-_______
So affirmed,
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N. D. Ala. (efiled)
N. D. Ala. (not efiled)
Eleventh Circuit (efiled)
Eleventh Circuit (not efiled)