(a) A supreme court case concerning a proposed rule or rule amendment pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 51 shall be opened by the supreme court, and not initiated by an interested person through the electronic filing system. However, all filings subsequent to the court’s case initiation shall be governed by these rules.
(b) A document that is submitted through the electronic filing system must be in one of the following formats only: .doc; .docx; or .pdf. Accordingly, any material for filing in a case that cannot reasonably be submitted through the electronic filing system as a .doc, .docx. or .pdf document, such as physical exhibits, demonstrative evidence, and video or audio recordings, must be conventionally filed.
(c) A document that is submitted for in camera review