Rule 21.070.Special Filing Requirements

Copies come first. The court may require a filer to submit a copy of a document that was filed electronically together with a copy of the submission or acceptance email, in the manner and time the court specifies. Otherwise a filer submits one copy, paper or electronic, and no extras unless the court asks. The court may also, on a party's motion or on its own, order a party not already required to do so to file or serve all documents electronically, after finding the order would cause no undue hardship or significant prejudice to any party. Documents requiring service under ORCP 7, and documents requiring personal service, stay outside such an order.

Section (3) is the paper list. Criminal accusatory instruments and juvenile delinquency petitions start cases conventionally, as do extradition documents, the initiating instrument in a contempt proceeding seeking remedial or punitive sanctions, and a notice of appeal from a justice or municipal court. A foreign subpoena under UTCR 5.140 arrives with an original subpoena and two copies. Anything filed under seal or subject to in camera inspection goes in on paper, including the motion asking for that treatment, though a document in an adoption case may be filed electronically. Physical items stay physical: a negotiable instrument tendered under UTCR 2.060, an undertaking accompanied by a security deposit, a demonstrative or oversized exhibit, trial exhibits under UTCR 6.050, a nondocumentary exhibit, and a document delivered to the court under ORCP 55. The list also reaches an extreme risk protection order petition filed by a family or household member, a victim's request for immigration certification, the petition or motion to waive mandatory eFiling, and the stipulated or ex parte matters a judicial district lists in SLR 2.501 — with filings under the abuse prevention statutes and the sexual abuse restraining order statutes allowed through the electronic forms system where those forms exist. Section (8) is the release valve: the paper list gives way where a Chief Justice Order, or a Presiding Judge Order issued under one, authorizes electronic filing of the document.

Original documents get a workaround. A document the law requires to be filed in original form — an original will, a certified document, a document under official seal — goes in conventionally. But if the law requires the original to be filed at the same time as a document being filed electronically, the filer must file an image of the original with that document and then deliver the original conventionally within seven business days. The original is then deemed filed on the date the image was. Two housekeeping steps go with it: say in the Filing Comments field that the submission includes an image of an original and that the original will follow within seven business days, and tell the court, when the paper arrives, that the image went in first.

The rest of the rule sorts filings by treatment. Confidential designation follows the case type: in a case that is confidential by statute or rule, do not mark the document confidential, because the case already carries the designation, unless the document type is separately confidential within that case type, in which case mark it; in a case that is not confidential, mark a confidential document confidential, and mark nothing that is not. For an expedited filing, put the words EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION REQUESTED in the Filing Comments field, and you may also notify the court by email or telephone at the contact on the judicial district website — a district may adopt a supplementary local rule requiring that separate notice. A document applicable to more than one case file gets filed in each case under the existing case numbers and captions, unless a court order or a supplementary local rule adopted under UTCR 2.090 says otherwise. Adoption filings go in as unified single PDFs: the petition or initiating document with its exhibits in one file, not designated confidential because the case type already is, and the Adoption Summary and Segregated Information Statement with its exhibits as a separate unified PDF designated confidential, because that document is segregated from the rest of the file.