Rule 84.Uniform Paper Size

Rule 84 is a short, administrative rule with a single job: it standardizes the physical format of what gets filed in an Arkansas civil case. Every category of paper the civil rules touch -- pleadings, motions, interrogatories, requests for admission, discovery responses, depositions, briefs, findings, judgments, and orders -- has to be on the same 8 1/2 by 11 inch page. That consistency keeps case files, whether kept on paper or scanned, uniform for clerks, judges, and anyone reviewing the record later.

Because the rule has stood unchanged since it was adopted in 1989, it predates the shift toward electronic filing that now handles most Arkansas court records. The underlying requirement still shapes how documents are formatted before they're generated or scanned for the court system, even where the record itself lives electronically rather than on physical paper.