Superior Court of Arizona in Maricopa County Document Format Requirements

Format

DOCX

Proposed orders must be submitted in WORD format.

Please provide a proposed order, when applicable, in WORD format.

Each audio/video clip must be on a separate flash drive submitted to the Clerk for marking five court days before trial.

The Court REQUIRES each audio/video clip to be on a separate flash drive ONLY if you are submitting physical copies of your exhibits. THESE MUST BE SUBMITTED FIVE COURT DAYS PRIOR TO YOUR TRIAL TO THE CLERK FOR MARKING.

Required

Always

Page limits are enforced and may not be exceeded without leave of court.

Page limits are enforced and should not be exceeded without leave of court.

Audio/video evidence must be on a thumb drive and played on a device brought to the hearing; cell phone playback is not permitted.

If you intend to present audio or video recordings, such evidence must be uploaded on a thumb drive and you must bring to the hearing a device that will allow you to play or show the content of the thumb drive. You will not be permitted to play or show recordings or information from a cell phone.

E-filed pleadings with more than 5 exhibits must include PDF bookmarks for all exhibits; noncompliance results in rejection with a 14-day re-filing window.

All e-filed pleadings, including, but not limited to, summary judgment pleadings, that contain more than 5 exhibits shall contain bookmarks to all exhibits attached to your pleading(s). All bookmarks must be contained in your e-filed pleading in pdf format. The bookmarking to exhibits is crucial, so that the Court can readily locate an exhibit without undue delay. The Court does not want hard copies of the exhibits, and the Court does not want the materials on thumb drive or email. DO NOT bookmark case citations. Any hyperlinks to any websites or the internet (e.g., Westlaw) will not work. Failure to provide the bookmarks as required above will result in the issuance of a Minute Entry rejecting the pleading. The party will be required to efile a new pleading with proper bookmarking no later than 14 days after the filing of the Minute Entry rejecting the original pleading. The Court reserves the right to disallow any pleadings that are not re-efiled within 5 days.

Single PDF e-filings in Turbo Court are limited to 9.5 MB; parties should submit only cited excerpts and condensed transcripts.

(4) A single PDF may be e-filed in Turbo Court with a file size of up to 9.5 MB. To accommodate these file size limitations, this Court encourages parties to submit only cited excerpts from lengthy depositions, contracts, or other documents and to submit a condensed copy of any cited transcript. No word indexes or unnecessary documents or pages should be included.

Format

DOCX

Proposed orders must be in Word format, must not use the heading 'proposed', and must not use strikethrough format because they should be in final form.

Provide a proposed order, when applicable, in WORD format. Do not use the heading "proposed" in your order. Do not use strikethrough format for the Orders - they should be in final form.

Format

DOCX

Proposed orders must be submitted in WORD format.

All motions need to be submitted with a proposed order, when applicable, in WORD format.

Orders must be in final format without strikethrough.

Do not use strikethrough format for the Orders - they should be in final format.

Format

DOCX

Proposed jury instructions and verdict forms should be in Word format and may be emailed directly to the Court.

The Court prefers to receive proposed jury instructions and verdict forms in Word format. These may be directly e-mailed to the Court.

The Statement of Discovery Dispute must be in Times New Roman 13 point font.

The Statement of Discovery Dispute must be in Times New Roman 13 point font.

All pages must be Bates numbered if more than 20 pages of documents are to be admitted.

If more than 20 pages of documents are to be admitted, all pages must be Bates numbered.

Format

DOCX

Proposed orders must be emailed in MS Word or PDF format 72 hours before the hearing.

If are lodging any other proposed orders, please do so 72 hours before the hearing. Please email it, in MS Word format, if possible, to cvj23@jbazmc.maricopa.gov. We can also receive .pdf formatted orders.

Format

DOCX

Proposed orders must be submitted in WORD format.

Provide a proposed order, when applicable, in WORD format.

Each video, audio, or other digital evidence file must be provided on its own separate flash drive.

For video, audio, or other digital evidence, please have each digital file on its own singular flash drive.

Signature pages must contain at least two lines of text, including a form of order.

Please remember you need at least two lines of text on a signature page, including a form of order.

Format

PDF

Proposed orders must be submitted as separate PDFs from the motion.

Proposed orders should be submitted in separate PDFs from the motion.

Primary motion and all cited exhibits must be filed as a single PDF with slip sheets separating each exhibit.

(1) Your primary motion or fact statement and all of your cited exhibits must be filed as a single PDF, with slip sheets separating and identifying each exhibit.

Each exhibit in the PDF must be bookmarked and named by exhibit number/letter with a short description.

(2) Each Exhibit in your PDF should be bookmarked. Your exhibit bookmarks should be named by Exhibit number/letter and a short description of what it is. For example, "Exhibit A – Cited Excerpts from Plaintiff's Deposition."

Exhibits must not be uploaded as 'supporting' documents in Turbo Court because bookmarks will not be usable.

(3) You should not upload your exhibits as "supporting" documents to your motion or fact statement when filing in Turbo Court as any bookmarks will not be usable if the exhibits are separated from the main document.

If a filing exceeds 9.5 MB, exhibits may be filed separately as a supporting document in a single internally bookmarked PDF, up to 100 MB total.

(6) If after these measures, your file still exceeds 9.5 MB, you may file your exhibits separately as a "supporting document," but then all of your exhibits should be combined into a single PDF and should be separated with slip sheets identifying each exhibit and the Exhibit PDF should be internally bookmarked. TurboCourt accepts file sizes of up to 100 MB total for both the main and supporting documents filed together.

Only cited excerpts from lengthy documents should be included; condensed transcripts are preferred over full-size transcripts.

Please only include cited excerpts from lengthy documents (i.e., deposition transcripts). This Court prefers condensed transcripts to be attached to motions or fact statements rather than the full-size transcripts.

All citations must be in the body of the brief, not in footnotes.

All citations shall be included in the body of the brief and not in footnotes.

Motions must be double-spaced.

Please double space your motions.

Format

DOCX

Proposed orders must be lodged in Word format.

E-file all pleadings and lodge a proposed order, when applicable, in Word.

Required

Always

Citations to Arizona case law need only include the official Arizona reporter volume and page; parallel citations are unnecessary.

This Division adheres to ARCAP Rule 13(f) regarding citation to case law and encourages counsel to save space by omitting parallel citations – citation to the volume and page number(s) of the official Arizona reporter, only, is sufficient.

Motions must be double-spaced; handwriting should be avoided if possible.

Motion Practice: Please double space your motions and avoid handwriting them if possible.

Required

Always

Appropriate attire is required for all proceedings, including virtual hearings and conferences.

Appropriate attire is expected for all proceedings, including virtual hearings and conferences.

Citations must follow ARCAP Rule 13(f): omit parallel citations and cite the official Arizona reporter volume, page, and paragraph.

This Division adheres to ARCAP Rule 13(f) regarding citation to case law and encourages counsel to save space by omitting parallel citations – citation to the volume, page number(s) and paragraph(s) of the official Arizona reporter, only, is sufficient.

Format

DOCX

Forms of Orders must be submitted in WORD format, not PDF or other document types.

Forms of Orders should be submitted in WORD format, instead of pdf or other document type.

Motions must be double-spaced and should not be handwritten if avoidable.

Please double space your motions and avoid handwriting motions if possible.

Only internal hyperlinks and bookmarks within the single e-filed PDF will remain usable after filing in TurboCourt.

(7) Please note that hyperlinks and bookmarks to websites or to separate documents will not work once your document is e-filed in TurboCourt. Only internal hyperlinks and bookmarks to pages within the single PDF e-filed with the Court will remain usable after e-filing.