15th Judicial Circuit Court, Lee County, Illinois Filing Bundling Requirements

CRITICAL

Combined PDFs and multi-case bulk filings are prohibited, subject to the law-enforcement citation exception; documents for different cases require separate transactions, while separately uploaded and titled documents in one case may share a transaction.

Bulk filings of multiple cases or multiple documents combined into one PDF document shall not be accepted by the Clerk; however, multiple citations being electronically filed may be transmitted to the Clerk as a single transaction directly from a law enforcement agency. Documents with different case numbers must be filed individually in separate transactions. Filing of individual documents within a case shall be accepted in a single Electronic Filing transaction; however, each individual document must be uploaded and titled individually.

CRITICAL

Briefs supporting dispositive motions must be filed with the motion.

Briefs in support of dispositive motions shall be filed with the motion.

CRITICAL

The Clerk will not accept bulk filings that combine multiple cases or documents into one PDF, but a law enforcement agency may transmit multiple citations as one transaction.

Bulk filings of multiple cases or multiple documents combined into one PDF document shall not be accepted by the Clerk; however, multiple citations being electronically filed may be transmitted to the Clerk as a single transaction directly from a law enforcement agency.

CRITICAL

Documents bearing different case numbers must be filed individually in separate transactions.

Documents with different case numbers must be filed individually in separate transactions.

WARNING

Parties should file motion exhibits with the motion and are discouraged from attaching previously filed pleadings as exhibits.

All exhibits to a motion should be filed with the motion; provided, however, that parties are discouraged from attaching previously filed pleadings as exhibits to motions.

WARNING

Exhibits should be filed with the motion, but parties are discouraged from reattaching previously filed pleadings.

All exhibits to a motion should be filed with the motion; provided, however, that parties are discouraged from attaching previously filed pleadings as exhibits to motions.

INFO

Individual documents within one case may be filed in a single Electronic Filing transaction.

Filing of individual documents within a case shall be accepted in a single Electronic Filing transaction;