Form 4
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MONTANA
Supreme Court Cause No.__________
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Plaintiff/Petitioner and
☐ Appellant or ☐ Appellee,
v.NOTICE REQUIRING FILING
OF AMENDED NOTICE OF
APPEAL OR CROSS-APPEAL
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Defendant/Respondent and
☐ Appellant or ☐ Appellee.
NOTICE of ____Appeal/Cross-Appeal____ was filed on __________________, 20___, in that cause of action filed in the ____________ Judicial District, in and for the County of ________________, as Cause No. ______.
The notice does not contain the following required certification(s):
1. ___ That this matter ____is/is not____ subject to the mediation process required by M. R. App. P. 7. If subject to mediation, the money judgment being sought ___is/is not____ less than $5,000.
2. ____ That this matter _____is/is not_____ an appeal from an order certified as final under M. R. Civ. P. 54(b). If this is such an appeal, a true copy of the District Court's certification order is attached to the notice of appeal/cross-appeal as Exhibit "A."
3. ____ That all available transcripts of the proceedings in this cause involving the issue(s) appealed _____have been/have not been_____ ordered from the court reporter contemporaneously with the filing of the notice of appeal. If all available transcripts have not been ordered, that Appellant has complied with the provisions of M. R. App. P. 8(3) contemporaneously with the filing of this notice of appeal.
4. ____ That all available transcripts of the proceedings in this cause involving the issue(s) cross-appealed _____have been/have not been_____ ordered from the court reporter contemporaneously with the filing of the notice of cross-appeal. If all available transcripts have not been ordered, that Cross-Appellant has complied with the provisions of M. R. App. P. 8(3) contemporaneously with the filing of this notice of cross-appeal.
5. ____ That a copy of the notice of ____appeal/cross-appeal____ has been contemporaneously filed in the office of the Clerk of the District Court and served by mail on all attorneys of record and on all parties not represented by an attorney.
____ The notice of appeal/cross-appeal was not accompanied by the filing fee prescribed by statute or the affidavit to proceed without payment of the required filing fee prescribed in the Appendix of Forms as Form 3. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE NOTICE OF APPEAL/CROSS-APPEAL WILL NOT BE FILED UNTIL THE FILING FEE IS PAID OR THE AFFIDAVIT FILED.
You are hereby directed to correct the above-checked deficiencies within 11 days of the date of this notice and to bring the notice into compliance with M. R. App. P. 4.
True copies of this notice have been provided to all attorneys of record and to all parties not represented by an attorney.
Dated this ____ day of ___________, 20___.
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Clerk of the Supreme Court