Supreme Court Clerk's Office

Fax and Email Filing

Fax

Fax filings require prior permission from the Clerk. Permission will only be granted if a party is not able to use the web portal and has a deadline that cannot be met if the document is sent by U.S. mail. You may call the Clerk's Office at (360) 357-2077 for permission. You must give the case number, the name of the document and the amount of pages when calling for permission. There is no fee for filing by fax. If you are granted permission to file by fax, we will then provide the fax number to you. Any faxes sent without prior permission will not be accepted for filing.

Faxed documents should be sent on "high resolution." Please make sure to start your fax before 4:00 p.m. on the day the document is due.

The faxed copy constitutes the original in the court file. There is no need to send the original by mail. You should keep the original in your file.

Filing by Attachment to E-mail

We will continue to accept filings by e-mail through June 30, 2017. After that date, all electronic filing must be via the web portal.

You may file a document with the court by attaching it to an e-mail message. Any document may be filed as an attachment to e-mail as long as the following requirements are met:

1. The body of the e-mail message to which the document is attached should include the following information:
   • case name
   • case number
   • name, phone number, bar number (if applicable) and e-mail address of the person filing the document.

2. PDF format is preferred, but Microsoft WORD documents will also be accepted. If the document includes an appendix, please scan the document and the appendix as one document, rather than sending them as separate documents. This ensures that the document will be assembled in the order that you intend and facilitates filing the document in electronic form in our document depository.

After we have received an e-mail and printed the document that is being filed, we will send a reply to the e-mail stating "Received". If you do not receive this reply within 30 minutes of sending your e-mail filing, please contact our office at (360) 357-2077 to confirm receipt of your filing.