DocketNumber： Appellate Case No. 2015-002439
Citation Numbers： 421 S.C. 336
Judges： Beatty, Carolina
Filed Date： 10/30/2017
Status： Precedential
Modified Date： 10/17/2022
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 Richland County. Effective November 14, 2017, all filings in all common pleas cases commenced or pending in Richland 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:
Aiken Allendale Anderson Bamberg
Barnwell Beaufort Cherokee Clarendon
Colleton Edgefield Georgetown Greenville
Hampton Horry Jasper Lee
Lexington McCormick Oconee Pickens
Saluda Spartanburg Sumter Williamsburg
Richland--Effective November 14,2017
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.