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• California US District Court rule changes
• Washington Bankruptcy Court Pleading, Eastern District court rule changes
• Washington Superior Court Pleading for Thurston County rule changes

Northern District

Rule 3-4.c(2):  Font must be no smaller than 12 pt.
Rule 3.4.c(3):  Case number must be in the footer following the pleading title and separated with a space, dash, space.

Southern District

Rule 5.1.(a):  Font must be no smaller than 12 pt.
Rule 5.1.(b):  Case number must be in the lower right corner in the following format: year, case type, 4 digit case number with leading zeros if necessary.  So case number 98 in civil court in the year 2002 would look like the following: 02cv0098 (Case types are:  civil = cv; criminal = cr; magistrate = mg; miscellaneous = mc.)

Eastern District 

No changes at this time.

Please refer to the following link for more details:

http://www.uscourts.gov/

NOTE:  The US District Court Pleading you currently have may not comply with these rule changes. You may continue using the template and manually modify all documents based on the rules cited above.

If requested, KI Systems will update your template so that all future pleadings are in full compliance.  Any changes made to the template will not affect any pleadings or captions you have stored on your network.  Changes to existing files must be made manually.

Washington Bankruptcy Court Pleading, Eastern District

Rule 9004 - 1(3):  "All typed and printed matter must appear in either a proportionately spaced typeface of 14 points or more, or a mono-spaced typeface of no more than 10.5 characters per inch may be used in a brief."  Our pleading is currently in a 12 point font.

Rule 9004 - 1(10):  Any document requiring the signature of the Court shall provide as follows:

________________________________
United States Bankruptcy Judge

Please refer to:

http://www.waeb.uscourts.gov/

NOTE: The US Bankruptcy Court Pleading you currently have may not comply with these rule changes.  You may continue using the template and manually modify all documents based on the rules cited above.  

If requested, KI Systems will update your template so that all future pleadings are in full compliance.  Any changes made to the template will not affect any pleadings or captions you have stored on your network.  Changes to existing files must be made manually.

Washington Superior Court Pleading, Thurston County

According to the Thurston County Clerk's office, there is a change to pleadings submitted in Thurston County.

New Pleading Format - Local Civil Rule 10:

Effective September 1, 2002, pursuant to LCR 10, "every document filed shall contain the information in substantially the following format in the top left hand corner of the first page:

New Pleading Format - Local Civil Rule 10 (LCR 10)

Effective September 1, 2002, pursuant to LCR 10, "every document filed shall contain the following information in substantially the following format in the top left hand corner of the first page:"

o EXPEDITE
o Hearing is set:

Date: __________________
Time: __________________
Judge/Calendar: __________

This new rule requires the above box to be placed on the first page of all pleadings and the appropriate information completed. When filing a document within 5 court day of a hearing, please check the EXPEDITE box.

(Note: There is a check box in front of Expedite and Hearing is set and the information is surrounded by a text box.)

A sample on the web site shows this information starting at line 3 of the pleading, below the judge name.

Please refer to:

http://www.co.thurston.wa.us/

NOTE:  The Superior Court Pleading you currently have may not comply with these rule changes.  You may continue using the template and manually modify all documents based on the rules cited above.  

If requested, KI Systems will update your template so that all future pleadings are in full compliance.  Any changes made to the template will not affect any pleadings or captions you have stored on your network.  Changes to existing files must be made manually.