Ada County District Court, Idaho Document Filing Requirements
19 rules from official source documents
Required elements, certificates, and structural requirements for court documents.
CRITICAL
- Applies to
- Request for additional expenditures
If an order specifies an authorized amount, additional expenditures require prior court approval.
When an order specifies the amount authorized, additional expenditures must not be made without seeking prior approval of the court.
CRITICAL
- Applies to
- Supporting or opposing brief
Supporting and opposing memoranda or briefs must contain the party’s facts, reasons, points, and authorities, and must precisely cite any relied-upon record facts.
Any memorandum or brief, supporting or opposing a motion, shall contain a statement of facts and all of the reasons and points and authorities relied upon by that party. To the extent a party relies on facts in the record, the party must specifically cite to the precise place in the record, affidavits, or documentary evidence.
CRITICAL
- Applies to
- Payment documentation
Defense counsel must provide the Public Defender’s Office with the information and documentation needed to process authorized expenses, following applicable reasonable county guidelines.
Defense counsel must provide the necessary information and documentation to the Office of the Public Defender to process payment for authorized expenses as required by such reasonable guidelines as are or may be established by the county auditor or county commissioners.
CRITICAL
- Applies to
- Proposed order
A proposed order must be filed as a separate document.
Any proposed order must be filed as a separate document.
CRITICAL
- Applies to
- Consolidation notice
A copy of the notice concerning consolidation must be filed in each case involved.
Notice shall be given to all parties in each action involved and a copy filed in each case involved.
CRITICAL
- Applies to
- Motion
The movant must set a motion for public defense funds for hearing.
As additional rules, the movant must set the matter for hearing.
CRITICAL
- Applies to
- Motion to amend
A motion to amend must include an unsigned, complete proposed amended pleading and a redline or comparison showing changes to the current pleading.
A party who moves to amend a pleading must attach to the motion (i) the unsigned proposed amended pleading setting forth the entire pleading as amended without incorporating the prior pleading by reference and (ii) a “redline” or comparison version of the proposed amended pleading that shows the changes to the current pleading.
CRITICALCivil cases
- Applies to
- Expert disclosure
When disclosing an expert, a party must contemporaneously provide the information required by I.R.C.P. 26(b)(4)(A)(i) and (ii), whether or not an interrogatory is pending.
Contemporaneously with the deadline for disclosure for any expert witness, and regardless of whether there is a pending interrogatory seeking such information, the party disclosing any expert(s) must also provide all information concerning such expert as is required by I.R.C.P. 26(b)(4)(A)(i) and (ii).
CRITICALCivil cases
- Applies to
- Discovery motion
All discovery motions must include an affidavit describing efforts to resolve the dispute before filing.
In addition, all discovery motions (e.g., to compel, to quash, and for protective orders) must be accompanied by an affidavit showing the efforts made to resolve the dispute before the motion was filed.
CRITICALCivil cases
- Applies to
- Motion
Before scheduling a hearing on a summary-judgment or specified amendment motion, the party must file the motion and supporting memorandum.
Before scheduling a hearing for a motion for summary judgment or motion to amend the complaint or counterclaim, the party must file the motion and memorandum in support and then contact the Court’s clerk for a hearing date.
CRITICALCriminal cases
- Applies to
- Guilty plea advisory
The defendant must fill out the guilty plea advisory.
TO BE FILLED OUT BY THE DEFENDANT
CRITICALCriminal cases
- Applies to
- Plea advisory form
The plea advisory form must be completed by answering every question.
Please answer every question.
CRITICALCriminal cases
- Applies to
- Plea advisory form
If available, the written plea agreement must be attached to the plea advisory form as Addendum “A.”
(If available, a written plea agreement must be attached hereto as “Addendum ‘A’”)
CRITICALCriminal cases
- Applies to
- Plea advisory form
The person completing the plea advisory form must check the correct answer.
Please check the correct answer
CRITICALCriminal cases
- Applies to
- Guilty plea advisory
The defendant must initial each response in the statement of constitutional rights.
(Please initial each response)
WARNING
- Applies to
- Financial documentation
The court may, in its sole discretion, require the defendant to produce specified financial and other information for an indigency determination.
In the sole discretion of the court, it may require the defendant to produce (i) current state and federal tax returns for up to three years prior to the date of the filing of the charges against the defendant, (ii) business records, (iii) payroll and income distribution records, (iv) bank account statements, (v) financial and stock records, (vi) locations of real estate and other assets, (vii) the number and ages of any dependents, (viii) any outstanding financial obligations, and (ix) such other documentation as may be deemed necessary by the court to make the court’s indigency determination.
WARNING
- Applies to
- Motion
The court may require the movant to submit a proposed order on any other motions or matters, together with any other documents necessary to complete a case.
The court may require the movant to submit a proposed order on any other motions or matters, together with any other documents necessary to complete a case.
WARNINGCivil cases
- Applies to
- Case scheduling plan
Do not attach unavailable dates when requesting trial dates.
Do not attach “unavailable dates.”
INFO
- Applies to
- Proposed order
A proposed order for a routine or uncontested matter may be submitted when the motion is filed.
Proposed orders on routine or uncontested matters may be submitted at the time the motion is filed.
What must be included with request for additional expenditures filings in Ada County District Court, Idaho?
If an order specifies an authorized amount, additional expenditures require prior court approval.
What must be included with supporting or opposing brief filings in Ada County District Court, Idaho?
The rule requires legal argument and statement of facts. Supporting and opposing memoranda or briefs must contain the party’s facts, reasons, points, and authorities, and must precisely cite any relied-upon record facts.
What must be included with payment documentation filings in Ada County District Court, Idaho?
Defense counsel must provide the Public Defender’s Office with the information and documentation needed to process authorized expenses, following applicable reasonable county guidelines.
What must be included with proposed order filings in Ada County District Court, Idaho?
A proposed order must be filed as a separate document.
1 more rule answers this question.
What must be included with consolidation notice filings in Ada County District Court, Idaho?
A copy of the notice concerning consolidation must be filed in each case involved.
What must be included with motion filings in Ada County District Court, Idaho?
Ada County District Court, Idaho: The movant must set a motion for public defense funds for hearing.
Judge Cynthia Yee-Wallace: Before scheduling a hearing on a summary-judgment or specified amendment motion, the party must file the motion and supporting memorandum.
1 more rule answers this question.
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