Daniels County District Court, Montana Document Format Requirements

CRITICAL

Applies to

Proposed order

Electronically submitted proposed orders must be in Microsoft Word format.

The required format for electronically submitted proposed orders is Microsoft Word.

CRITICAL

Applies to

Electronically submitted document other than proposed order

Format

PDF

Electronically submitted documents other than proposed orders must be in PDF format.

The required format for electronically submitted documents other than proposed orders is PDF.

CRITICAL

Format

DOCX

Proposed orders must omit submitting counsel’s name and address from the upper-left corner and, when e-filed, must be attached in Microsoft Word format.

All proposed Orders shall omit the submitting counsel's name and address from the top left-hand corner. If using e-filing, proposed orders shall be attached in Microsoft Word format. The Court will not act on Motions filed without proposed Orders and/or Orders submitted via e-filing in the incorrect format.

WARNING

Documents filed with the Clerk of Court must not be stapled.

To facilitate scanning into the Full Court case management system, parties shall not staple documents filed with the Clerk of Court.

WARNING

Parties must follow the most recent uniform system of citation.

Parties shall comply with the most recent uniform system of citation.

WARNING

Counsel should make reasonable efforts to pre-label trial exhibits, using numbers for plaintiffs and letters for defendants, with a different initial for each defendant.

Counsel shall make reasonable effort to pre-label all exhibits to be used at trial. In making trial exhibits, plaintiffs shall use numbers and defendants shall use letters. Multiple defendants should use a different initial before numbering of each exhibit.

WARNING

Briefs must be concise but sufficiently thorough; the Court may strike rambling, verbose, inflammatory, or unintelligible briefs or pleadings, and exceptions should be requested before filing.

Briefs shall be concise and to the point, but as thorough as the complexities of the issues demand. The Court may strike rambling, verbose, inflammatory, or unintelligible briefs or pleadings. The Clerk will return documents not meeting the above requirements. Those seeking an exception should request it before attempting to file a document.

WARNING

Papers presented for filing should conform to MUDCR 1 and Rules 10 and 11 of the Montana Rules of Civil Procedure; the Clerk should not file nonconforming papers, and the Court may strike them.

The Clerk of Court should not file, and the Court may strike, any papers presented for filing which do not conform to Montana Uniform District Court Rules (MUDCR) 1 and Rules 10 and 11 of the M. R. Civ. P.