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In re Expansion of Elec. Filing Pilot Program - Court of Common Pleas

Supreme Court of South Carolina.
May 17, 2018
814 S.E.2d 496 (S.C. 2018)

Opinion

Appellate Case No. 2015-002439

05-17-2018

RE: EXPANSION OF ELECTRONIC FILING PILOT PROGRAM - COURT OF COMMON PLEAS


ORDER

Pursuant to the provisions of Article V, Section 4 of the South Carolina Constitution,

IT IS ORDERED that the Pilot Program for the Electronic Filing (E-Filing) of documents in the Court of Common Pleas, which was established by Order dated December 1, 2015, is expanded to include Dorchester County. Effective June 19, 2018, all filings in all common pleas cases commenced or pending in Dorchester County must be E-Filed if the party is represented by an attorney, unless the type of case or the type of filing is excluded from the Pilot Program. The counties currently designated for mandatory E-Filing are as follows:

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Attorneys should refer to the South Carolina Electronic Filing Policies and Guidelines, which were adopted by the Supreme Court on October 28, 2015, and the training materials available on the E-Filing Portal page at http://www.sccourts.org/efiling/ to determine whether any specific filings are exempted from the requirement that they be E-Filed. Attorneys who have cases pending in Pilot Counties are strongly encouraged to review, and to instruct their staff to review, the training materials available on the E-Filing Portal page.

/s/ Donald W. Beatty

Donald W. Beatty

Chief Justice of South Carolina


Summaries of

In re Expansion of Elec. Filing Pilot Program - Court of Common Pleas

Supreme Court of South Carolina.
May 17, 2018
814 S.E.2d 496 (S.C. 2018)
Case details for

In re Expansion of Elec. Filing Pilot Program - Court of Common Pleas

Case Details

Full title:RE: EXPANSION OF ELECTRONIC FILING PILOT PROGRAM - COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

Court:Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Date published: May 17, 2018

Citations

814 S.E.2d 496 (S.C. 2018)