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South Carolina
Judicial Branch
2018-07-18-01

The Supreme Court of South Carolina

Re: Expansion of Electronic Filing Pilot Program - Court of Common Pleas

Appellate Case No. 2015-002439


ORDER


Pursuant to the provisions of Article V, Section 4 of the South Carolina Constitution,

IT IS ORDERED that the Pilot Program for the Electronic Filing (E-Filing) of documents in the Court of Common Pleas, which was established by Order dated December 1, 2015, is expanded to include Calhoun County.  Effective August 7, 2018, all filings in all common pleas cases commenced or pending in Calhoun County must be E-Filed if the party is represented by an attorney, unless the type of case or the type of filing is excluded from the Pilot Program.  The counties currently designated for mandatory E-Filing are as follows:  

Aiken Allendale Anderson Bamberg
Barnwell Beaufort Cherokee Chester
Clarendon Colleton Dorchester Edgefield
Fairfield Georgetown Greenville Greenwood
Hampton Horry Jasper Kershaw
Lancaster Laurens Lee Lexington
McCormick Newberry Oconee Orangeburg
Pickens Richland Saluda Spartanburg
Sumter Union Williamsburg York

Calhoun—Effective August 7, 2018

 

Attorneys should refer to the South Carolina Electronic Filing Policies and Guidelines, which were adopted by the Supreme Court on October 28, 2015, and the training materials available on the E-Filing Portal page at http://www.sccourts.org/efiling/ to determine whether any specific filings are exempted from the requirement that they be E-Filed. Attorneys who have cases pending in Pilot Counties are strongly encouraged to review, and to instruct their staff to review, the training materials available on the E-Filing Portal page.

 

s/Donald W. Beatty                     
Donald W. Beatty
Chief Justice of South Carolina

Columbia, South Carolina
July 18, 2018