Paper Is Required in Department 27 and Banned in Department 32
One judge in Clark County, Nevada requires paper courtesy copies. The judge down the hall refuses them. Here is what that looks like on Court Rules, and how much of the country we cover.
Two judges in the same Las Vegas courthouse publish opposite rules about the same thing. Both are in the Eighth Judicial District Court in Clark County, Nevada, which lists 58 judges on Court Rules, and 55 of them have rules of their own. Judge Erika Mendoza's Department 27 wants paper:
Counsel for the moving party is required to submit physical, paper courtesy copies of all related briefing, affidavits, and exhibits, including those filed by other parties at least five judicial days prior to the scheduled hearing pursuant EDCR 2.20(g) and 7.26(d).
Judge Christy Craig's Department 32 will not take them:
Department 32 does not accept paper Courtesy Copies. If a Courtesy Copy is to be provided, please email the document to the JEA and Law Clerk for Department 32 and include the case number, name, and date of hearing in the subject line.
A firm that files in both departments needs both answers, and the court's general rules give neither. Putting each judge's answer on that judge's page, next to the sentence it came from, is what Court Rules is for. Check your assigned department and case type before you print anything.
Page limits and holidays vary too
In the Circuit Court of Cook County, where 100 of 400 listed judges have individual rules, Judge Caroline Kate Moreland allows 15 pages for motions and responses and 10 for replies, and going over takes leave of court on a written motion with good cause. Judge Michael F. Otto's Law Division calendar allows 15 pages for initial and opposition briefs and 7 for replies.
Closures differ as well. Clark County's 2026 list includes Nevada Day on Friday, October 30, and Cook County's includes Lincoln's Birthday and Casimir Pulaski Day, neither of which is a federal holiday. In the deadline calculator, pick the court by name. Ten court days after Monday, October 26, 2026 end on Tuesday, November 10 in Clark County, because the count skips weekends and Nevada Day. Use the counting method your rule or order requires.
What we cover
As of October 5, 2026, Court Rules has at least one extracted rule for 138 state trial-court listings in 27 states, up from 27 when we announced the first state courts on August 21. Those listings serve 155 counties. The counties hold 143.2 million of the 331.4 million residents counted in the 2020 Census, or 43.2 percent, because we started with the big ones: 46 of the 50 most populous counties are in, and so are 76 of the top 100.
On the federal side, individual judges' rules are on the site for 19 of the 94 district courts, and every district page links to that district's own local rules. A link is not the same as having the rules on the site.
The gaps are easy to name. Among the 50 largest counties we are missing Middlesex County in Massachusetts, Salt Lake County in Utah, and Wake and Mecklenburg counties in North Carolina. No state trial-court listing has rules in 23 states or DC. Depth varies inside the courts we have: 54 of the 138 listings have court-wide rules and nothing from individual judges, and 9 have fewer than 50 rules. A county with some rules here may still lack your court, division or judge.
See state trial-court listings and counties with at least one rule, by state
| State | Listings | Counties covered |
|---|---|---|
| California | 28 | 28 of 58 |
| Texas | 28 | 28 of 254 |
| Ohio | 17 | 17 of 88 |
| Florida | 9 | 21 of 67 |
| New York | 9 | 9 of 62 |
| Illinois | 5 | 8 of 102 |
| Colorado | 4 | 6 of 64 |
| Georgia | 4 | 4 of 159 |
| Maryland | 4 | 4 of 24 |
| Michigan | 3 | 3 of 83 |
| Pennsylvania | 3 | 3 of 67 |
| Washington | 3 | 3 of 39 |
| Arizona | 2 | 2 of 15 |
| Missouri | 2 | 2 of 115 |
| Oklahoma | 2 | 2 of 77 |
| Oregon | 2 | 2 of 36 |
| Tennessee | 2 | 2 of 95 |
| Wisconsin | 2 | 2 of 72 |
| Delaware | 1 | 1 of 3 |
| Hawaii | 1 | 1 of 5 |
| Indiana | 1 | 1 of 92 |
| Kentucky | 1 | 1 of 120 |
| Louisiana | 1 | 1 of 64 |
| Minnesota | 1 | 1 of 87 |
| Nevada | 1 | 1 of 17 |
| Rhode Island | 1 | 1 of 5 |
| Virginia | 1 | 1 of 133 |
| All 27 states | 138 | 155 of 3,143 |
County boundaries follow the 2020 Census. Its list of 3,143 counties and county equivalents includes Louisiana's parishes, Virginia's independent cities and Baltimore City. Five of Florida's circuits, two Colorado districts and the Fourteenth Circuit in Illinois each serve several counties.
How we counted
- A listing is a court page on Court Rules. It counts when it has at least one extracted rule from an active source document. Statewide rule sets do not count.
- Each county counts once, however many listings serve it. Multi-county circuits and districts use the county lists in Fla. Stat. 26.021, 705 ILCS 35/1 and the Colorado courts' own pages. Where a court's name gives one county and it also sits for others, as in Providence County, Rhode Island, we count only the named county.
- People are 2020 Census residents of the 50 states and DC, from the Census Bureau's county population file. The county list is the 2020 one, with Connecticut's eight former counties.
- Federal shares use the county lists in 28 U.S.C. 81 to 131 and cover the districts with individual judges' rules, except the Eastern District of Virginia.
- Download the table of listings and counties (CSV), with the source for each county.
How to read a rule
Every rule on a judge page shows the judge's wording, a link to the document and a status line. Two lines are warnings: "Not confirmed. Read the court's wording below" and "We could not find this wording in the court's document. Open the source before relying on it." Rules that passed our automated check say so and give a date, and a rule with no check yet is labeled "Machine summary. Not checked yet." We wrote about how the checker works in September. It compares our summary with the judge's sentence and does not tell you whether the rule applies to your case, so read the source before you rely on it.
Each court also has a changes page, and an Atom feed covers every court. They list PDF revisions we detected in the last 180 days, with the new copy and the one it replaced. We check about once a month, so a court may have posted a change before the date we show.
Why adding a court takes a while
The slow part is people. Legal experts check the quality of the rules we extract and help break apart conflicts between them. That human review takes longer than the collecting.
Collecting is quicker but never routine. Every court site is built differently, so each one gets its own collector. Our Rock Island collector reads a shared judges' directory. Our Colorado 18th District collector reads judge contact cards. Some judge pages in Florida's Fifth Circuit label their documents "CLICK HERE," so that collector reads the file names to tell what each one is. A site redesign can break any of them.
Next
Courts are queued by population, search demand and page use. The courts' own local rules for Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Harris, Maricopa, St. Louis County and Wayne are configured and wait for the next monthly state run. Nine more federal districts are configured for their local rules: M.D. Fla., E.D. Mich., D. Mass., D. Ariz., E.D. La., N.D. Ohio, N.D. Ga., D. Md. and S.D. Ohio. Email alerts for detected changes are planned, and the 2027 court calendars are not in the data yet, so check a court's own 2027 schedule before you calculate a deadline.
Look up your court in the state court directory or the federal court directory. Developers can pull the same rules and source links through the API. To ask for a court, email us the court's name and county.