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

CRITICAL

Bulk combined PDFs are prohibited, subject to a law-enforcement citation exception; different case numbers require separate transactions, while individually 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

A supporting brief for a dispositive motion must be filed with the motion.

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

WARNING

Exhibits should be filed with the motion, but parties 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

Motion exhibits should be filed with the motion, but parties are discouraged from attaching pleadings already filed.

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.