Mercer County Circuit Court, Kentucky Electronic Filing Rules

CRITICAL

Applies to

Motion

Parties may file motions under the e-filing system, and motions filed in compliance with its protocol are deemed properly filed.

This Rule in no way precludes a party from filing motions in compliance with the e-filing system. Motions filed in compliance with the e-filing protocol shall be deemed properly filed.

CRITICAL

Applies to

Proposed orders or judgments

When the Court directs parties in matters taken under advisement to submit proposed orders or judgments, they must email them to the Court in Word or compatible format, submit a hard copy to the Clerk, and transmit a courtesy copy to opposing counsel.

5.4 In all matters taken under advisement, the Court may in its discretion direct the parties to submit proposed orders or judgments for consideration. All such proposed orders or judgments shall be submitted via e-mail to the Court in a Word (or compatible) document format, with a hard copy submitted to the Clerk. Counsel shall transmit a courtesy copy to opposing counsel.

WARNING

Applies to

Discovery requests and responses

Unless the Court directs otherwise, parties must not file discovery requests or responses in the record when exchanging them.

3.3 Unless directed by the Court, the parties shall not file discovery requests or discovery responses in the record when exchanging the same.

INFO

Applies to

Proposed orders

Once the Court can sign orders electronically, it may direct parties to submit proposed orders electronically.

At such time that the Court becomes able to sign orders electronically, the Court may direct parties to submit proposed orders in that fashion.