BNC Notice & Service Disruption

HISTORY & STATUS: 

The Bankruptcy Noticing Center (BNC) began experiencing a nationwide outage affecting all U.S. Bankruptcy Courts on or about October 9, 2026. As a result, the BNC was unable to process and deliver notices and orders issued by the Court. Notices and orders issued on or after 6PM on October 6, 2026, were affected by this outage.

The Court has been advised that as of October 26, 2026, BNC resumed normal operations and reopened access to the National Creditor Registration Service (NCRS), along with the preferred-address functionality associated with 11 U.S.C. § 342(f).  BNC will begin processing certificates of notice for notices and orders issued on October 7th will and resume mailings for notices and orders issued on October 8th, while also processing newly received work from the courts.  The implementation plan will process backlog printing in parallel with newly received work until normal operating conditions are restored. Courts will be notified once the backlog is completed. 

AFFECTED CASES:

For cases filed between October 6th and October 14, 2026, Section 341 Meetings of Creditors have been scheduled, but notices of those meetings were not sent by the BNC. In these cases, the Court issued orders on October 23rd assigning responsibility for providing notice to debtor’s attorneys or, if the debtor is unrepresented, the debtor. The resumption of BNC operations will likely result in duplicative notices in those cases.

For cases filed on or after October 15, 2026, the Court has paused issuance of Section 341 Meeting of Creditors notices while awaiting full restoration of BNC service. The Court expects to resume issuing these notices shortly and will work with the Office of the U.S. Trustee to set meeting dates and times.  Further updates on this process will be posted on this page.

BANKRUPTCY RULES EMERGENCY / FED. R. BANKR. P. 9038:

Separately, on October 22, 2026, the Judicial Conference of the United States declared a “Bankruptcy Rules emergency” under Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure 9038.  The declaration is based on a finding that the nationwide disruption of BNC services substantially impairs the courts’ ability to perform their functions in compliance with the Bankruptcy Rules.  It applies to all bankruptcy courts and to district courts that process bankruptcy cases, and it grants authority for 90 days, from October 9, 2026, through January 7, 2027. Under Bankruptcy Rule 9038(c), the chief bankruptcy judge may extend or toll deadlines set by the Bankruptcy Rules, local rules, or orders on a district or division-wide basis.  A presiding judge may do so in specific cases or proceedings. The Court is considering the declaration and its implementation. No deadlines have been extended or tolled on a district-wide basis at this time, and any such order will be posted on the Court’s website.  The full notice of the declaration is available here.