Providence County Superior Court Filing Bundling Requirements

An administrative-appeal assignment must be accompanied contemporaneously by each party's memorandum of law and the complete administrative-agency record.

No cause requiring the court to review the decision of a state or municipal agency shall be assigned to a justice or magistrate unless the assignment to the justice is accompanied contemporaneously by the memorandum of law of each party and the entire record of the proceedings before the state or municipal agency.

All case-initiating documents, required documents, attachments, and exhibits must be submitted individually as separate files in the same initial submission or filing.

(A) All Case Initiating Document(s), including any required documents, attachments, or exhibits, shall be submitted individually as separate files within the same initial submission or filing;

Subsequent pleadings, motions, and other papers must be submitted individually, with related documents filed as separate files in the same submission or filing.

(B) All subsequent pleadings, motions, and other papers, shall be submitted individually with related documents submitted as separate files within the same submission or filing (for example, a motion and memorandum or other supporting attachments or exhibits filed in support of a motion); and

The moving party is responsible for assembling all completed filings into one comprehensive package for submission to the court.

This task is assigned to the moving party to ensure that all filings, once complete, can be brought to the Court in a single comprehensive package to avoid papers being lost and to make it convenient for the Court.

Counsel should file memoranda for all parties simultaneously and as early as possible.

As the statutory structure will require that memoranda from all parties be filed within prompt, pre-set times, counsel should file memoranda simultaneously and at the earliest possible time.

Bills, receipts, invoices, photographs, and similar items may be combined into one attachment.

(C) Categories of items such as bills, receipts, invoices, photographs, etc. may be submitted in one attachment.

Bills, receipts, invoices, photographs, and similar items may be grouped into a single EFS attachment.

(B) Categories of items such as bills, receipts, invoices, photographs, etc. may be submitted in one attachment.

Bills, receipts, invoices, photographs, and similar items may be submitted together in one attachment.

(C) Categories of items such as bills, receipts, invoices, photographs, etc. may be submitted in one attachment.

A single discovery motion may address multiple parties and discovery requests, and one order may memorialize all resulting rulings.

4. Discovery motions may address multiple parties and multiple discovery requests in a single motion, and a single order may be presented to memorialize all rulings made on a discovery motion.