Re Expansion of Electronic Filing Pilot Program

Supreme Court of South Carolina

Re Expansion of Electronic Filing Pilot Program

790 S.E.2d 608, 417 S.C. 387, 2016 S.C. LEXIS 341

CourtSupreme Court of South Carolina

DecidedAugust 8, 2016

DocketAppellate Case No. 2015-002439

StatusPublished

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Re Expansion of Electronic Filing Pilot Program, 790 S.E.2d 608, 417 S.C. 387, 2016 S.C. LEXIS 341 (S.C. 2016).

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ORDER

Pursuant to the provisions of Article Y, 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 Spartanburg County. Effective August 23, 2016, all filings in all common pleas cases commenced or pending in Spartanburg 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:

[388]*388Clarendon Lee Greenville

Sumter Williamsburg Pickens

Spartanburg — Effective August 23,2016.

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 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.

s/Costa M. Pleicones

Costa M. Pleicones

Chief Justice of South Carolina

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ORDER

Pursuant to the provisions of Article Y, 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 Spartanburg County. Effective August 23, 2016, all filings in all common pleas cases commenced or pending in Spartanburg 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:

[388]*388Clarendon Lee Greenville

Sumter Williamsburg Pickens

Spartanburg — Effective August 23,2016.

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 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.

s/Costa M. Pleicones

Costa M. Pleicones

Chief Justice of South Carolina

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