Crawford County Courts, Indiana Document Format Requirements

Pleadings, motions, entries, orders, judgments, and other papers must be filed on letter-size paper.

B. PAPER SIZE. All pleadings, motions, entries, orders, judgments and other papers shall be filed on letter size [8 ½ x 11] paper.

Proposed final jury instructions must use letter-size paper, be double-spaced, and place all designations, including the Court’s disposition, in the bottom three inches.

Proposed final instructions, special or pattern, shall be submitted on letter size (8 ½ x 11) paper, double-spaced, with all designations including indications for the Court’s disposition placed on the bottom three (3) inches of the instruction.

Motions must be in writing, except motions made during a recorded proceeding.

A. GENERALLY. Except motions made during the course of a recorded proceeding, all motions shall be in writing.

Pleadings presented for filing with the Clerk or the Court must be flat and unfolded.

C. FLAT FILING. The files of the Clerk of the Court shall be kept under the flat filing system. All pleadings presented for filing with the Clerk or the Court shall be flat and unfolded.

A subpoena issued in blank must be signed and sealed, and the requesting party or attorney must fill it in before service.

A subpoena, or a subpoena for the production of documentary evidence, signed and sealed but otherwise in blank, to a party requesting it or his or her attorney, who shall fill it in before service.

A. USE OF FORM DISCOVERY. No “form” discovery shall be served upon a party unless all discovery requests on such forms are consecutively numbered and applicable to the case in which the same are utilized. The intent and purpose of this rule is to prohibit the use of form discovery unless applicable to the case at bar or where the nature of the case or the number of the parties makes the use of such forms necessary and appropriate.

A. USE OF FORM DISCOVERY. No “form” discovery shall be served upon a party unless all discovery requests on such forms are consecutively numbered and applicable to the case in which the same are utilized. The intent and purpose of this rule is to prohibit the use of form discovery unless applicable to the case at bar or where the nature of the case or the number of the parties makes the use of such forms necessary and appropriate.