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Electronic submission still involves uploading a PDF, which has to follow the court's rules for layout of printed pages. It just means it the file gets directl
by tjohns 4y ago
Electronic submission still involves uploading a PDF, which has to follow the court's rules for layout of printed pages.
It just means it the file gets directly added into the case's docket, rather than having to be manually scanned in by the clerks' office.
- KptMarchewa 4y agoYou'd think by using electronic submission they'd go with machine readable format.
- dragonwriter 4y agoThat would be a lot more work (because of the need to accept exceptional paper submissions, and get them into the required format) and cost for both the courts and every law office that might have need to file in federal court, for potentially very little benefit, since the processes filings support are human processes for the foreseeable future, independently of the data format.