Judith Basin County District Court, Montana Document Format Requirements

CRITICAL

Exhibits must be exchanged before trial and marked with numbers for Plaintiff/Petitioner and letters for Defendant/Respondent, unless the Court directs otherwise.

D. Exhibits are to be appropriately marked and exchanged prior to trial, with Plaintiff/Petitioner using numbers and Defendant/Respondent using letters—unless directed otherwise by the Court.

CRITICAL

Proposed orders must adhere to the formatting requirements set forth above.

Adhere to the formatting requirements as set forth above.

CRITICAL

Proposed orders submitted through e-filing or email must be in .doc or .docx format.

Be submitted via e-filing in .doc or .docx format. All proposed orders in cases that are not enabled for e-filing shall be emailed to the Court Administrator in .doc or .docx format;

CRITICAL

Margins

top 1 in, bottom 1 in, left 1 in, right 1 in

All papers shall be: (1) Typewritten or if handwritten in clear and legible handwriting; (2) Only on standard quality paper, 8 ½” x 11” in size with one inch margins on one side only; (3) Lines numbered consecutively from the top; (4) Spaced one and a half or double, except for quoted material and footnotes; (5) Numbered consecutively on the bottom left hand portion of the page. If the filing is more than one page, the page number should be in the format “x of x”; and (6) The title of the pleading shall not be listed in the bottom margin and must be left blank for the electronic signature of the Court.

All papers shall be: (1) Typewritten or if handwritten in clear and legible handwriting; (2) Only on standard quality paper, 8 ½” x 11” in size with one inch margins on one side only; (3) Lines numbered consecutively from the top; (4) Spaced one and a half or double, except for quoted material and footnotes; (5) Numbered consecutively on the bottom left hand portion of the page. If the filing is more than one page, the page number should be in the format “x of x”; and (6) The title of the pleading shall not be listed in the bottom margin and must be left blank for the electronic signature of the Court.

CRITICAL

Proposed orders must omit macros and special coding or formatting, except for appropriate citation formatting.

Omit macros or special coding or formatting other than appropriate citation format;

CRITICAL

Email-submitted clean proposed jury instructions and verdict forms must be in .doc or .docx format.

If the clean proposed jury instructions and verdict form are not submitted by e-filing the parties shall email them to the Court Administrator in .doc or .docx format.

CRITICAL

Any proposed documents must be emailed to the Court Administrator in .doc or .docx.

Any proposed documents must be emailed to the Court Administrator in .doc or .docx.

CRITICAL

The first page of every filing must follow the specified placement and content requirements; nonconforming pages require leave or may be rejected or stricken.

The first page of any filing shall conform to the following: (1) Commencing at line 1 at the left margin, single spaced, shall identify the name of the attorney or party responsible for the pleadings together with complete mailing address, telephone number and email address; (2) Lines 1 through 7 of the right one half of the page shall be left blank for the use of the Clerk of Court; (3) On or below line 8, the title of the Court; (4) Commencing at line 9 or below, on the left the title of the case; (5) On the right and opposite the title of the case, the case number and identification of the document; (6) Nonconforming pages may not be filed without leave of the Court and will either be rejected by the Clerk of Court or stricken from the record.

CRITICAL

Proposed orders must not have a footer or signature block for the Judge’s signature.

Be submitted as a separate document under the filing type “Proposed Document” and shall not have a footer or signature block for the Judge’s signature.

CRITICAL

A pleading that does not conform to MUDCR 1 will not be filed and must be returned to the submitting party.

Forms of Papers Presented for Filing. Any pleading filed in an action which does not conform to, MUDCR 1, will not be filed by the Clerk of Court and shall be returned to the party submitting it.

CRITICAL

A clean set of jury instructions must be e-filed in .doc or .docx format without citations.

A set of “clean” jury instructions shall also be e-filed in .doc or .docx format that does not contain the citations.

WARNING

Proposed orders for emergency filings should be properly filed with the Clerk of Court as well as emailed to the Court Administrator in .doc or .docx format.

Proposed orders for emergency filings should be properly filed with the Clerk of Court as well as emailed to the Court Administrator in .doc or .docx format.

WARNING

Attachments must not be larger than 8½ by 11 inches.

The total number of pages of attachments shall not exceed fifteen (15) except by leave of the Court and shall not be larger than 8 ½” x 11”.

WARNING

The document must use proportional spacing with its typeface and point size identified, or a monospaced typeface with the characters-per-inch count; a party may rely on the word processor's word count.

(i) The document is proportionally spaced, together with the typeface and point size; or (ii) The document uses a monospaced typeface, together with the number of characters per inch. A party may rely on the word count of the word processing system used to prepare the document.