Pro-Tip on E-Filing at the Georgia Supreme Court

Every now and then, I e-file things at the Supreme Court that require me to attach a set of exhibits. There are a few categories of things that require you to petition for the Court to take your appeal. And when you do that, you have to put together your own record into a sort of proffer of what the record would show if the appeal were granted.

In a way it’s much easier now than ever. There was a time, when this activity meant a trip to a copy shop or printer to make a huge set of binders with copies for each justice. Many trees died. Today, you e-file your exhibits.

E-filing the exhibits brings its own challenge. The Court prefers that you upload one big exhibit with internal tabs. Though the system is set up to take individually numbered exhibits. The problem there is that the numbers only go to ten, and sometimes there are more than ten exhibits. Another problem is that a multi-volume transcript may exceed the upload data cap. Then you must subdivide the exhibit. And it all gets confusing. pdfs, beyond a certain length, get kicked out of the system.

I learned yesterday from someone that you can e-file the discretionary application, await docketing, then log back in. At this point, when you upload your exhibit, the data cap goes away.

Today, as I nervously watched the status bar on my web browser go, I prayed. And voila. The Court took my 1,700-page exhibit packet.