Rule 6 - Scope of Electronic Filing: Exceptions Based Upon Case Type or Document Type(a) A supreme court case concerning a proposed rule or rule amendment pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 51 shall be opened by the supreme court, and not initiated by an interested person through the electronic filing system. However, all filings subsequent to the court's case initiation shall be governed by these rules.(b) A document that is submitted through the electronic filing system must be in one of the following formats only: .doc; .docx; or .pdf. Accordingly, any material for filing in a case that cannot reasonably be submitted through the electronic filing system as a .doc, .docx. or .pdf document, such as physical exhibits, demonstrative evidence, and video or audio recordings, must be conventionally filed.(c) A document that is submitted for in camera review shall not be submitted through the electronic filing system. The document must be conventionally filed.(d) An ex parte document, as defined in Rule 3 of these rules, shall not be submitted through the electronic filing system. The document must be conventionally filed, and the title of the document must state that the document is filed ex parte.(e) A document submitted in a confidential case by a person who is not a party, an attorney of record to a party, or a court-authorized nonlawyer representative of a party shall not be submitted through the electronic filing system. The document must be conventionally submitted, following which a determination will be made as to whether to docket the document and to allow the person to file and receive documents electronically in the case.(f) A motion pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 21B to withdraw a criminal appeal shall not be submitted through the electronic filing system. The document must be conventionally filed.(g) The certified copy of the record in a municipal land-use appeal or in an appeal from an administrative agency may be conventionally filed.(h) A trial court's record or a portion thereof that is ordered to be transmitted pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 14(2) may be conventionally filed.(i) A Supreme Court Rule 9 interlocutory transfer statement may be conventionally filed by the trial court or administrative agency.(j) A certified question pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 34 may be conventionally filed by the Supreme Court of the United States, by a court of appeals of the United States, or of the District of Columbia, or by a United States district court.(k) A mediator's Appellate Mediation Report may be conventionally filed.Adopted March 29, 2018, effective 3/29/2018; amended effective 1/1/2020; amended effective 1/1/2020.