Lewis and Clark County District Court, Montana Page & Word Limits

Limit

20 pages or 6500 words

Applies to

Pleading or brief

Except for initial pleadings, pleadings and briefs are limited to 20 pages excluding attachments, or may instead use the 6,500-word limit with the required certification; additional pages require court leave and good cause, and serial motions intended to evade the page limit may be summarily denied.

Pleadings/briefs, except initial pleadings, in all cases shall be limited to 20 pages, not including attachments. Additional pages may be filed only with leave of the court and with good cause showing. Serial motions filed for the purpose of evading the 20-page limitation may result in summary denial of all such motions. Filings may alternatively be limited to 6,500 words (excluding the caption, signature block, certificates of service or compliance, any tables of contents or authorities, and any appendices or exhibits) if accompanied by a certification of compliance which states the word count and the document’s line spacing and states either: (1) the document is proportionately spaced, together with the typeface and point size; or (2) 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 brief. The certification is not included in calculating the document’s length.