Supreme Judicial Court Rules Massachusetts Rules of Electronic Filing Rule 5: Rejection of electronic documents for technical nonconformance with the rules of court

Adopted Date:	06/07/2018
Effective Date:	09/01/2018
Updates:	Adopted June 7, 2018, effective September 1, 2018 (480 Mass. 1301)

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Rule 5

The clerk may reject any document filed electronically for any technical nonconformance with the Rules of Court and may identify the error to be corrected and may state a deadline for the party to resubmit the document in a conforming format. This rule shall not, however, extend the mandatory or statutory time, including any statute of limitations, for the filing of such document.