Filing and Service (Rules 13 and 13-A, as amended; AM 10-3-7-SC, 11-9-4-SC, 25-01-13-SC, and 25-09-16-SC)

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1. Under Rule 13-A, Section 2, what is filing?
2. What did the February 4, 2025 amendment add expressly to Rule 13-A's coverage?
3. Which case category is expressly excluded from the Supreme Court's 2025 transitory electronic-filing rules?
4. In a covered trial-court civil case under Rule 13-A, a complaint is properly filed personally. By when must its require…
5. A covered non-initiatory pleading is emailed to the trial court but not emailed to the opposing party or counsel under …
6. In a covered Rule 13-A case, counsel sends the pleading from an email address not of record, although it reaches the co…
7. A lawyer uses the Supreme Court's 2025 platform rules to claim that a Rule 122 criminal appeal must follow exactly the …
8. Distinguish the primary filing of an initiatory pleading from filing a non-initiatory paper in a covered Rule 13-A tria…
9. Explain the current scope of Rule 13-A after A.M. 25-01-13-SC. May it automatically be applied as a suppletory rule to …
10. Under Rule 13-A's digital-format requirements, distinguish a discrepancy between a scanned page and its OCR text from a…
11. In a covered Rule13-A trial-court case, is failure to check counsel’s email-of-record inbox accepted as a general excus…
12. What Rule13-A deadline applies to promptly notifying and serving a justified change of email address?