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E-Filing Bulletin Board

Description Date Information Status
Scheduled Maintenance 04/13/2026 There is scheduled maintenance between 7:45 PM and 8:00 PM Monday, April 13, 2026. The E-Filing system will be unavailable during this maintenance window. Resolved
Tip 04/14/2026 Lake County Justice Court (Court ID 495) is enabled for E-Filing on CV, CR, and TK cases.
Scheduled Maintenance 04/10/2026 There is scheduled maintenance between 7:00 AM and 7:30 AM Friday, April 10, 2026. The E-Filing system will be unavailable during this maintenance window. Resolved
System Outage 04/07/2026

3:30 PM - The E-Filing system will go offline for approximately 10 minutes to resolve a lock in the system.

Resolved at 3:00 PM - This has been resolved. You should be able to search for and file on cases again.

We are aware users are experiencing issues searching for and filing on cases at the District Courts. IT is currently working on resolving the issue.

Resolved
Court(s) Outage 04/02/2026 The clerks case management system will be down for scheduled maintenance between 7:00 PM and 8:00 PM Thursday, April 2, 2026. You may not be able to view or e-file on District Court and Limited Jurisdiction Court cases during this time. Supreme Court cases will still be available. Resolved
Scheduled Maintenance 04/02/2026 There is scheduled maintenance between 7:00 AM and 7:30 AM Thursday, April 2, 2026. The E-Filing system will be unavailable during this maintenance window. Resolved
Scheduled Maintenance 04/01/2026 There is scheduled maintenance between 7:00 AM and 7:30 AM Wednesday, April 1, 2026. The E-Filing system will be unavailable during this maintenance window. Resolved
Tip 03/31/2026 Carter County District Court (Court ID 6) is enabled for E-Filing on DC, DJ, DN, DD, DI, DR, DA, DF, DG, DP, DV, IS, and SL cases.
Tip 03/27/2026 Powder River County District Court (Court ID 38) is enabled for E-Filing on DC, DJ, DN, DD, DI, DR, DA, DF, DG, DP, DV, IS, and SL cases.
Scheduled Maintenance 03/26/2026 There is scheduled maintenance between 7:00 AM and 7:30 AM Thursday, March 26, 2026. The E-Filing system will be unavailable during this maintenance window. Resolved
Tip 03/24/2026 Lake County District Court (Court ID 24) is enabled for E-Filing on DC, DJ, DN, DD, DI, DR, DA, DF, DG, DP, DV, IS, and SL cases.
Scheduled Maintenance 03/23/2026 There is scheduled maintenance between 7:00 AM and 7:30 AM Monday, March 23, 2026. The E-Filing system will be unavailable during this maintenance window. Resolved
Maintenance Weekend 03/21/2026

State ITSD will be conducting maintenance activities beginning Saturday, March 21, 2026 at 5:00 a.m. until Sunday, March 22, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. During this time, e-filing interruptions will happen as servers and software are updated and rebooted. Please avoid e-filing during this maintenance window.

Note: During the maintenance weekend, users may be unable to view cases or submit e-filings, even outside of the active maintenance window. Please make any necessary arrangements in anticipation of upcoming system unavailability.

Resolved
Scheduled Maintenance 03/20/2026 There is scheduled maintenance between 7:00 AM and 7:30 AM Friday, March 20, 2026. The E-Filing system will be unavailable during this maintenance window. This is rescheduled for Monday, March 23. Resolved
Scheduled Maintenance 03/16/2026 There is scheduled maintenance between 7:00 PM and 8:00 PM Monday, March 16, 2026. The E-Filing system will be unavailable during this maintenance window. Resolved
Scheduled Maintenance 03/13/2026 There is scheduled maintenance between 7:00 PM and 7:30 PM Friday, March 13, 2026. You may not be able to view or file on District Court and Limited Jurisdiction Court cases during this time. Supreme Court cases will still be available. Resolved
Tip 03/10/2026 Garfield County District Court (Court ID 17) is enabled for E-Filing on DC, DJ, DN, DD, DI, DR, DA, DF, DG, DP, DV, IS, and SL cases.
Scheduled Maintenance 03/09/2026 There is scheduled maintenance between 7:45 PM and 8:00 PM Monday, March 9, 2026. The E-Filing system will be unavailable during this maintenance window. Resolved
Court(s) Outage 03/06/2026

The Supreme Court case management system will be down between 6:30 AM and 8:00 AM Friday, March 6. During this time Supreme Court cases will not be available to view or file on in E-Filing.

This only applies to Supreme Court cases. District Court and Limited Jurisdiction Court cases will still be available.

Resolved
Tip 03/05/2026 Golden Valley County Justice Court (Court ID 425) is enabled for E-Filing on CV, CR, and TK cases.
Scheduled Maintenance 03/03/2026 There is scheduled maintenance between 7:00 AM and 7:30 AM Tuesday, March 3, 2026. The E-Filing system will be unavailable during this maintenance window. Resolved
Maintenance Weekend 02/21/2026

State ITSD will be conducting maintenance activities beginning Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 5:00 a.m. until Sunday, February 22, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. During this time, e-filing interruptions will happen as servers and software are updated and rebooted. Please avoid e-filing during this maintenance window.

Note: During the maintenance weekend, users may be unable to view cases or submit e-filings, even outside of the active maintenance window. Please make any necessary arrangements in anticipation of upcoming system unavailability.

Resolved
Scheduled Maintenance 02/17/2026 12:00PM - At 12:00PM, the E-Filing system will go offline for approximately 10 minutes to improve E-Filing speeds. Resolved
System Outage 02/16/2026

The E-Filing system was experiencing issues Sunday, February 15 and Monday, February 16. The system is back up and running.

If you received an error notification, please resubmit your filing.

If you paid a fee with an errored filing please DO NOT PAY AGAIN. Use a fee waiver. Instructions to resubmit errored filings are available here.

Resolved
Other 02/16/2026 The Office of the Court Administrator is closed Monday, February 16, 2026 for Presidents Day
System Outage 02/11/2026 9:30AM- The E-Filing system will go offline for approximately 10 minutes to resolve a lock in the system. Resolved
System Outage 02/10/2026

Resolved at 4:30 PM - This has been resolved. You should be able to search for and file on cases again.

4:00 PM  - We are aware users are experiencing issues searching for and filing on cases at the District and Limited Courts. IT is currently working on resolving the issue.

Resolved
Scheduled Maintenance 02/06/2026 There is scheduled maintenance between 7:00 AM and 7:30 AM Friday, February 6, 2026. The E-Filing system will be unavailable during this maintenance window. Resolved
Tip 02/04/2026 Miles City Court (Court ID 315) is enabled for E-Filing on TK and CR cases.
System Outage 02/04/2026

Resolved at 7:45 AM - This has been resolved. You should be able to search for and file on cases again.

7:35 AM- We are aware users are experiencing issues searching for and filing on cases at the District and Limited Courts. IT is currently working on resolving the issue.

Resolved
Scheduled Maintenance 01/30/2026 There is scheduled maintenance between 7:00 AM and 7:30 AM Friday, January 30, 2026. The E-Filing system will be unavailable during this maintenance window. Resolved
System Outage 01/29/2026

Resolved as of 9:51 AM - You should be able to search for and file on cases again at the District Courts and Limited Jurisdiction Courts.


8:36 AM- We are aware users are experiencing issues searching for and filing on District Court cases. IT is currently working on resolving the issue.

Limited Courts and the Supreme Court are working.

Resolved
System Outage 01/27/2026

RESOLVED 2PM - All Filings submitted to Missoula County District Court were successfully sent to the clerks office. Filings are now submitting successfully again.


Since approximately 3pm 1/26/25, E-Filings submitted to Missoula County District Court are not arriving at the clerks office. We are working on resolving the issue.

Resolved
Maintenance Weekend 01/24/2026

State ITSD will be conducting maintenance activities beginning Saturday, January 24, 2026 at 4:00 a.m. until Sunday, January 25, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. During this time, e-filing interruptions will happen as servers and software are updated and rebooted. Please avoid e-filing during this maintenance window.

Note: During the maintenance weekend, users may be unable to view cases or submit e-filings, even outside of the active maintenance window. Please make any necessary arrangements in anticipation of upcoming system unavailability.

Resolved
System Outage 01/23/2026

2:00 PM - The system is processing any submissions that were stuck due to the lock. 

If your filing timed out and you receive an error notification, please resubmit your filing.

If you paid a fee with an errored filing please DO NOT PAY AGAIN. Use a fee waiver. Instructions to resubmit errored filings are available here.


Due to a lock in the system, the E-Filing system will be offline for 5-10 minutes starting at 1:45PM.

Resolved
Scheduled Maintenance 01/23/2026 There is scheduled maintenance between 7:00 AM and 7:30 AM Friday, January 23, 2026. The E-Filing system will be unavailable during this maintenance window. Resolved
Other 01/22/2026 Microsoft has reported a worldwide outage that is affecting our ability to send or receive emails. While some emails are still sending and receiving, many are not getting through.

We anticipate that once they have resolved the issue all emails will be sent or received.

Resolved
Scheduled Maintenance 01/22/2026 There is scheduled maintenance between 7:00 PM and 7:15 PM Thursday, January 22, 2026. The E-Filing system will be unavailable during this maintenance window. Resolved
System Outage 01/22/2026

12:30 PM - You may resume filing again. We will continue to monitor the system and post any updates. You may still experience random errors but majority of the submissions as of now are submitting successfully.

If you receive an error notification, please resubmit your filing.

If you paid a fee with an errored filing please DO NOT PAY AGAIN. Use a fee waiver. Instructions to resubmit errored filings are available here.


11:30 AM - Due to the number of filings being submitted currently the system is struggling to keep up with the submissions and is resulting in errors. 

We recommend temporarily halting attempts to resubmit filings at this time as our document processor catches up.


10:45 AM- E-Filing users are still experiencing intermittent errors with submissions. The system will be shut down at 10:45AM for approximately 10 minutes to try and resolve the issues.

Resolved
System Outage 01/21/2026

Update 9:20 AM 1/22/26 - The E-Filing system is continuing to experience intermittent issues with the document processor resulting in filing errors and delays with uploading documents. We have reported this to our vendor to look into further.

 If you receive an error notification, please resubmit your filing. 


Update 1:45 PM - E-Filing users are still experiencing intermittent errors with submissions. If you receive an error notification, please resubmit your filing. Majority of the submissions are successfully submitting.

If you paid a fee with an errored filing please DO NOT PAY AGAIN. Use a fee waiver. Instructions to resubmit errored filings are available here.


11 AM - E-Filing users are still experiencing intermittent errors with submissions. The system will be shut down at 12pm for approximately 10 minutes to try and resolve the issues.


E-Filing users experienced intermittent errors for approximately 10 minutes from 8:40-9:50am. If you received an error notification around that time period, you may resubmit your filing.

Resolved
Scheduled Maintenance 01/20/2026 There is scheduled maintenance between 7:00 PM and 7:10 PM Tuesday, January 20, 2026. The E-Filing system will be unavailable during this maintenance window. Resolved
Scheduled Maintenance 01/20/2026 There is scheduled maintenance between 7:00 AM and 8:00 AM Tuesday, January 20, 2026. The E-Filing system will be unavailable during this maintenance window. Resolved
Other 01/19/2026 The Office of the Court Administrator is closed Monday, January 19, 2026 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Scheduled Maintenance 01/16/2026 There is scheduled maintenance between 7:00 AM and 7:30 AM Friday, January 16, 2026. The E-Filing system will be unavailable during this maintenance window. Resolved
Scheduled Maintenance 01/15/2026 There is scheduled maintenance between 7:00 AM and 7:30 AM Thursday, January 15, 2026. The E-Filing system will be unavailable during this maintenance window. Resolved
Scheduled Maintenance 01/13/2026 There is scheduled maintenance between 7:00 AM and 7:30 AM Tuesday, January 13, 2026. The E-Filing system will be unavailable during this maintenance window. Resolved
Scheduled Maintenance 01/06/2026 There is scheduled maintenance between 7:00 AM and 7:30 AM Tuesday, January 6, 2026. The E-Filing system will be unavailable during this maintenance window. Resolved
Other 01/01/2026 The Office of the Court Administrator is closed Thursday, January 1, 2026 for New Years Day.
Please email efilingtechsupport@mt.gov with e-filing questions.