Case Name: RE: EXPANSION OF ELECTRONIC FILING PILOT PROGRAM-COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
Court: Supreme Court of South Carolina
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 2017-09-27
Citations: 421 S.C. 139
Docket Number: Appellate Case No. 2015-002439
Parties: RE: EXPANSION OF ELECTRONIC FILING PILOT PROGRAM-COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
Judges: 
Reporter: South Carolina Reports
Volume: 421
Pages: 139–139

Head Matter:
805 S.E.2d 577
RE: EXPANSION OF ELECTRONIC FILING PILOT PROGRAM-COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
Appellate Case No. 2015-002439
Supreme Court of South Carolina.
September 27, 2017

Opinion:
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 Edgefield and McCormick Counties. Effective October 10, 2017, all filings in all common pleas cases commenced or pending in Edgefield and McCormick Counties 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 mandatory E-Filing are as follows: designated for
Aiken Allendale Anderson Bamberg
Barnwell Beaufort Cherokee Clarendon
Colleton Georgetown Greenville Hampton
Horry Jasper Lee Oconee
Pickens Spartanburg Sumter Williamsburg
Lexington Saluda
Edgefield and McCormick—Effective October 10, 2017
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