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LCR 5. Service and Filing of Pleadings and Other Papers

Local Civil Rule

(a)-(c) (Reserved)

(d) Filing. No motion for any order shall be heard unless the original documents pertaining to it have been filed with the Clerk.

  (i) Discovery Material Not To Be Filed; Exceptions. Except documents admitted or filed in open court by order of the court, any filing that includes discovery material filed as permitted by CR 5(i) (as limited by CR 26(h)) or by CR 32 must identify in the caption the motion, hearing, or trial for which it will be used.

(k) Copies of Cases Not to be Filed. [Rescinded, see LCR 7(b)(5)(B)(v)]

[Amended effective September 1, 1994; September 1, 1999; September 1, 2002; June 1, 2009; September 2, 2013; September 1, 2026.]