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

Supreme Court of South Carolina

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

823 S.E.2d 697, 425 S.C. 556

CourtSupreme Court of South Carolina

DecidedJanuary 23, 2019

DocketAppellate Case No. 2015-002439

StatusPublished

This text of 823 S.E.2d 697 (In re Expansion of Elec. Filing Pilot Program - Court of Common Pleas) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Supreme Court of South Carolina primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

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In re Expansion of Elec. Filing Pilot Program - Court of Common Pleas, 823 S.E.2d 697, 425 S.C. 556 (S.C. 2019).

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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 Darlington County. Effective February 5, 2019, all filings in all common pleas cases commenced or pending in Darlington 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 **557review, the training materials available on the E-Filing Portal page.

/s/ Donald W. Beatty

Donald W. Beatty

Chief Justice of South Carolina

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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 Darlington County. Effective February 5, 2019, all filings in all common pleas cases commenced or pending in Darlington 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 **557review, the training materials available on the E-Filing Portal page.

/s/ Donald W. Beatty

Donald W. Beatty

Chief Justice of South Carolina

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823 S.E.2d 697, 425 S.C. 556, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/in-re-expansion-of-elec-filing-pilot-program-court-of-common-pleas-sc-2019.