Rule 84.25.Number of Copies to be Filed in This Court.

Filing in the Missouri Supreme Court under Rule 84.25 usually means filing more than one copy. Petitions for original writs, other than habeas corpus, require the original plus seven clearly legible copies of the petition and any suggestions in support, and the same number applies to suggestions in opposition if any are filed; copies that aren’t clearly legible won’t be filed. Applications for transfer, and suggestions in opposition to them under Rule 83, require the original plus seven legible copies, along with one copy of each brief filed in the court of appeals when a memorandum decision or written order was issued under Rule 30.25 or Rule 84.16 — otherwise briefs aren’t submitted with the application. Motions for rehearing follow the same pattern: the original plus seven copies of the motion and any suggestions in support, and the same number for suggestions in opposition. For most other pleadings and papers, only the original transcript, application, petition, motion, suggestions, stipulation, or other paper needs to be filed.

The rule, as written, also allows a person filing an application for transfer or a motion for rehearing to submit a floppy disk containing that document and its attachments in place of the paper copies otherwise required — a double-sided, high-density 1.44 MB, 3½-inch disk, labeled with the case caption, a disk number, and the word-processing format used, preferring Microsoft Word or, if unavailable, WordPerfect 5.x or higher.