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Supreme Court Updates Its Rules to Reflect Electronic Filing

The Supreme Court has adopted a revised version of its Rules to implement electronic filing. The revisions will take effect when the electronic filing system becomes operational on November 13, 2017. Highlights from the revisions are reproduced below,* in order of importance: Rule 29. Electronic Filing: “In addition to the filing requirements set forth in [...]

Electronic “Filing” and the Supreme Court

Mathew Planalp2019-03-18T18:47:21-05:00July 7th, 2016|Tags: electronic, filing, Legal Brief Printing, PDF, Supreme Court, transmission|

Courts “often choose to be late to the harvest of American ingenuity," wrote Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., in the Supreme Court's 2014 year-end report on the state of the federal judiciary. "Courts understandably proceed cautiously in introducing new information technology systems until they have fairly considered how to keep the information contained therein [...]