Western District: File skinny PDFs, please 
By Deborah Elkins
Published: May 6, 2011
Tags: E-filing, Federal Courts, Technology
Put your fat electronic files on a diet, caution the federal courts of the Western District.
New electronic filing rules discourage oversized files created by scanning hard copies to make PDFs for filing with the court.
Staffers say the system gets bogged down with unwieldy scanned exhibits that occupy far too many megabytes on the courts’ computers. [...]
SCC takes first step into electronic filing 
By Peter Vieth
Published: February 3, 2010
Tags: E-filing, State Corporation Commission, Technology
The State Corporation Commission has rolled out the first wave of its planned suite of electronic filing capabilities, with the promise of more to come.
Businesses now can change registered agent information without requesting a paper form and mailing it back to the SCC. The relatively easy-to-use format will come as a refreshing surprise for those [...]


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