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• Proposed Changes to RAP 9.7 - Preparing Clerk's Papers and Exhibits for Appellate Court (in Word Format)
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Purpose: WALA has proposed amendments to RAP 9.7 to allow electronic reproduction and transmission of the clerk’s papers. With electronic filing and scanning, many superior court clerks reproduce the clerk’s papers in electronic format, and appellate court clerks store and disseminate clerk’s papers electronically. This amendment allows the superior court clerk to transmit clerk’s papers electronically, as an alternative to sending hard copies to the appellate court.

The clerks have proposed changing the time within which the clerk’s papers must be delivered to the appellate court to 14 days, from the current wording, which requires transmission “upon receipt.”