Boone Circuit Court Document Format Requirements

CRITICAL

Only original briefs, pleadings, and memoranda may be filed in the court record, except by court order or a party agreement filed in the record; noncompliant documents may be stricken.

Only originals of briefs, pleadings and memoranda shall be filed in the court record, except upon order of the Court or by agreement of the parties filed in the court record. Failure to provide original briefs, pleadings and memoranda for the court record may result in them being stricken from the record.

CRITICAL

Exhibits and other material intended for use at a civil trial must be clearly and concisely marked for identification without obscuring or hindering relevant information.

All exhibits and material intended to be used during a civil trial shall be marked for identification purposes in a clear and concise fashion as herein described and additionally said markings shall not obscure nor hinder any relevant written or pictographic information contained on the exhibit itself.

CRITICAL

Pleadings, briefs, motions, and judgments must use the specified court, division, and action-number style.

All pleadings, briefs, motions and judgments shall be styled as follows: COURT OF JUSTICE – [Insert appropriate county] DISTRICT COURT CIVIL DIVISION ACTION NO. _____

CRITICAL

Pleadings and other papers presented at the hearing must be written, typewritten in black type, and at least 12-point.

All pleadings and other paper shall be presented to the Court at the scheduled hearing date and shall be in writing, typewritten in black type not smaller than 12 point pursuant to CR 7.02.

CRITICAL

Proposed exhibits, including those appended to discovery materials and those intended for trial, must be identified uniformly throughout all phases of the case.

Proposed exhibits, including those appended to requests for admission, interrogatories and depositions, as well as those to be utilized during trial, shall be uniformly identified during all phases of the case.

CRITICAL

Unless the Court orders or directs otherwise, exhibits must use the specified party-based prefixes and sequential numbering, with the relevant individual’s surname or corporate name included in cases involving multiple plaintiffs or defendants.

Unless otherwise ordered or directed by the Court, all exhibits shall be marked for identification purposes as follows: - 1. Joint exhibits shall be identified by the prefix (JX) and shall be sequentially numbered; - 2. Plaintiff's exhibits shall be identified by the prefix (PX) and shall be sequentially numbered; - 3. Defendants exhibits shall be identified by the prefix (DX) and shall be sequentially numbered; - 4. Third-party exhibits shall be identified by the prefix (TPX) and shall be sequentially numbered; - 5. In all proceedings involving multiple plaintiffs or multiple defendants, the identification assigned each exhibit shall contain the surname of the individual plaintiff or defendant or the corporate name of the plaintiff or defendant.

WARNING

Filed originals of briefs, pleadings, and memoranda may not be withdrawn from the Court's files without a court order.

Original of briefs, pleadings and memoranda filed in the Court shall not be withdrawn from the files, except upon order of the Court.

WARNING

As many vouchers, etc., as are possible shall be placed on a single page so that the volume of these items may be kept to a minimum. - F. The foregoing subsections of this Rule shall not apply in an estate in which an informal settlement shall be filed in keeping with the provisions of KRS 395.605.

As many vouchers, etc., as are possible shall be placed on a single page so that the volume of these items may be kept to a minimum. - F. The foregoing subsections of this Rule shall not apply in an estate in which an informal settlement shall be filed in keeping with the provisions of KRS 395.605.

WARNING

Interrogatories and requests for production or inspection must leave adequate space between questions or requests for the responses.

When propounding Interrogatories or Requests for Production or Inspection, the propounder shall leave adequate room for reply between questions or requests.