KB article ID: 830 (permalink) Some EFSP's require the filer to
distinguish between a lead document and an attachment. Based on our
understanding (bearing in mind that we cannot give legal advice), our
understanding of which to use is found below. Lead documents- the only thing we've ever seen which seems to indicate what is a lead document is the list of statewide standard filing codes listed in the configuration standards available from http://efile.illinoiscourts.gov/ . Generally speaking, these are documents which:
Based on the above, each of the following pairs of documents would be separate lead documents in the same envelope:
Attachments- what documents could possibly be treated as attachments?
That said, Goodin recommends that courts consider telling filers to include the attachments in the same pdf as the lead document. Why? Because state policy says that e-filed documents can't be modified. So if the filer submits a filing with a lead document and two attachments, it will be three documents in Imaging... we can't combine them. Technical references Figure 2 in section 2.3.3 of the ECF spec- envelope message- document with id of D2 has two attachments (purple blocks A1 and A2), but only the filing code which guarantees us a meaningful record sheet entry is found in the document (see RegisterActionDescriptionText). |