Sheridan County District Court, Montana Document Format Requirements

CRITICAL

Applies to

Electronically submitted document

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

Proposed orders must omit submitting counsel's name and address from the top left-hand 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.

CRITICAL

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

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

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

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

Briefs should be concise but sufficiently thorough, and the Court may strike rambling, verbose, inflammatory, or unintelligible briefs or pleadings; the Clerk will return noncompliant documents.

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.

WARNING

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.

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.

WARNING

Counsel should make reasonable efforts to pre-label trial exhibits; plaintiffs should use numbers, defendants letters, and multiple defendants different initials.

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.