III § 6 Civil Records

Records in civil cases shall include the following in the listed order:

A. Indices of filings, oral testimony, documents, and exhibits (as required by Section 4 of this Rule);

B. Typed copies of the minutes showing the date of each entry;

C. All pleadings, together with related documents, exhibits, and court rulings, in the chronological order in which they were filed. Answers to discovery requests shall immediately follow and be attached to the written requests;

D. Documents introduced (except those annexed to pleadings as above directed) in the order in which they are filed. No record of any other case shall be included in the transcript of the record of the case appealed, unless such other record shall have been formally offered and ordered filed in evidence in that cause; in such event, this other record may be included in the record as an exhibit;

E. Reasons for judgment and judgments, both interlocutory and final;

F. Petition or motion and order, and bond for appeal;

G. The transcript of oral testimony in the order in which it is taken, preceded by two indices:

1. an index setting forth the names of witnesses in the order called by the respective litigants and the transcript volume and page numbers of their examination on direct, cross-examination, etc.; and

2. an alphabetical index of the names of witnesses called by the respective litigants and the page number on which their testimony commenced on each occasion they testified.

These indices shall also list and identify the exhibits and show by whom presented and the page number where ordered filed.

The transcript of oral testimony shall indicate the party litigant on whose behalf each witness was sworn, whether in chief, on cross-examination, or in rebuttal, and by whom examined or cross-examined;

H. Where documents or exhibits are too bulky or it is otherwise not feasible to bind them, they may be included in one or more exhibit envelope, with a list and identification of the enclosed exhibits attached to the envelope(s). The duplicate record need not reproduce such exhibits. However, depositions introduced into evidence must be included in the original and duplicate records; and

I. In all cases appealed to this Court from a judgment rendered in a civil case by a parish, city or municipal court, wherein the testimony of witnesses was electronically recorded, such electronic recording shall, before lodging of the appeal in this Court, be transcribed, and a certified copy of the original transcription and either the one or two duplicates shall be prepared and filed in accordance with the foregoing sections of this Rule.