Stillwater County District Court, Montana Document Format Requirements

CRITICAL

Stipulations and agreements between the parties or their attorneys must be made on the record, reduced to writing, or both.

Stipulations and Agreements between the parties or their attorneys shall be made on the record and/or reduced to writing.

CRITICAL

Briefs must comply with Local Rule 10-2 and may be stricken and not considered if they do not.

All briefs shall comply with Local Rule 10-2, infra. Failure to comply with Local Rule 10-2 may subject an offending brief to being stricken from the record and not being considered by the Court.

CRITICAL

Briefs must use Times New Roman or Arial font at a minimum size of 12 points.

B. Acceptable Fonts: All briefs shall be written in either Times New Roman or Arial font, no smaller than 12 pt.

CRITICAL

Counsel must present an order, judgment, or decree in written form for the judge’s signature when applying for it.

It shall be the duty of counsel obtaining any order, judgment or decree to present the same in written form for the signature of the judge at the time of applying for the order, judgment or decree.

CRITICAL

Format

DOCX

The electronic copy of the proposed order provided to the Court Administrator must be in Word format.

Counsel shall provide an electronic copy of the proposed Order in Word format to the Court Administrator.

WARNING

Interrogatories should be custom prepared for the case; absent extraordinary circumstances, the Court will sustain a motion to quash all interrogatories if numerous frivolous interrogatories are asked.

B. The Court will, except in extraordinary circumstances, sustain a motion to quash all interrogatories if it appears that numerous frivolous interrogatories are asked therein. (Comment: This rule is intended to require the interrogator to custom prepare his/her interrogatories to the case at hand.)

WARNING

Proposed orders submitted through the electronic filing system must be in Word format.

Registered users shall submit all proposed orders in the electronic filing system in Word format so they may be edited as necessary by Chambers.

WARNING

Electronic copies of proposed jury instructions and verdict forms must be in Word format.

Electronic copies of the proposed instructions and verdict forms shall be provided to the Court in Word format, via email, CD, or other electronic media.

WARNING

Every specific reference to a statement from a cited case must include a pinpoint citation.

D. Case Citations: Every specific reference to a statement from a cited case shall contain a pinpoint citation.

WARNING

Interrogatories and answers must conform to the requirements of Rule 33, M.R.Civ.P.

A. The form of interrogatories and answers thereto shall conform to the requirements of Rule 33, M.R.Civ.P.

WARNING

All briefs must comply with Rule 1, U.D.C.R., including its restrictions on pagination, spacing, and page numbering.

A. Form of Briefs: All briefs shall comply with Rule 1, U.D.C.R., including but not limited to its restrictions on pagination, spacing, page numbering, etc.