2019 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 15 - Civil Procedure
Chapter 26C - Supreme Court Electronic Filing Rules
§ 15-26C-2 Electronic document formats.
15-26C-2. Electronic document formats. (1) All documents submitted to the Supreme Court in electronic form must be in portable document format (.pdf) except as follows:
(a) Parties must obtain permission from the Supreme Court Clerk in advance if they seek to submit documents in another format.
(b) Briefs shall comply with chapter 15-26A and shall consist of a single document submitted in pdf and an approved word processing format.
(c) When an appendix is filed, it shall be in .pdf format and shall be included as part of the brief document. Except for limited excerpts showing a court's reasoning, circuit court transcripts that have been filed electronically with the Supreme Court shall not be included in an appendix. A table of contents with page or paragraph reference as appropriate for each document must precede the appendix. Points of particular interest with page or paragraph reference may also be added to the table of contents. When feasible, electronic bookmarks shall be added to note the first page of each document in the appendix and may be added to note the location of points of particular interest.
Source: SL 2014, ch 253 (Supreme Court Rule 13-11), eff. Jan. 1, 2014; SL 2019, ch 223 (Supreme Court Rule 19-02), eff. upon further order of the Supreme Court entered after July 1, 2019.
