Case Name: RE: EXPANSION OF ELECTRONIC FILING PILOT PROGRAM-COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
Court: Supreme Court of South Carolina
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 2016-11-15
Citations: 418 S.C. 363
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: 418
Pages: 363–364

Head Matter:
793 S.E.2d 296
RE: EXPANSION OF ELECTRONIC FILING PILOT PROGRAM—COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
Appellate Case No. 2015-002439
Supreme Court of South Carolina.
November 15, 2016

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 Beaufort County and Jasper County. Effective December 6, 2016, all filings in all common pleas cases commenced or pending in Beaufort County and Jasper 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:
Clarendon Lee Greenville
Sumter Williamsburg Pickens
Spartanburg Cherokee Anderson
Oconee Beaufort and Jasper—Effective December 6, 2016
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 at http://www.sccourts.org/efiIing/ 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.
s/Costa M. Pleicones
Costa M. Pleicones
Chief Justice of South Carolina