In Re UPDATE ON THE STATUS OF THE ELECTRONIC-APPEAL PILOT PROJECT
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Opinion
Cite as 2020 Ark. 248 SUPREME COURT OF ARKANSAS
IN RE UPDATE ON THE STATUS OF Opinion Delivered June 11, 2020 THE ELECTRONIC-APPEAL PILOT PROJECT
PER CURIAM
On June 6, 2019, we proposed amendments to court rules that, among other things,
authorized the filing of electronic-appeal records and eliminated the abstract and
addendum requirements for appellate briefs. See In re Acceptance of Records on Appeal in
Electronic Format & Elimination of the Abstract & Addendum Requirements, 2019 Ark. 213. At
that time, we also authorized parties to proceed under the proposed rules as a pilot project
to test the feasibility of the proposed amendments.
To date, there have been 121 electronic appeals filed in this court and the court of
appeals. However, many of those cases are still undergoing briefing. And electronic appeals,
like conventional appeals, are submitted according to the rules of case priority once they
have been fully briefed. Thus far, only two appeals have been fully briefed and submitted to
this court for a decision, and only five have been fully briefed and submitted to the court
of appeals. As more electronic appeals proceed through the appellate courts to final resolution this fall and winter, we will be able to assess the impact of, and take final action
on, the proposed amendments.
In the meantime, we thank everyone who has taken part in the pilot project,
including parties, attorneys, circuit court clerks and staff, court reporters, and appellate
court staff. We encourage anyone who has not participated to do so, and we encourage
those who have participated to share their comments on the experience. Comments should
be submitted in writing to Stacey Pectol, Clerk of the Arkansas Supreme Court and
Arkansas Court of Appeals, 625 Marshall Street, Suite 130, Little Rock, Arkansas, 72201,
or via email at eROAcomments@arcourts.gov.
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