Several documents submitted through the court system’s statewide electronic filing portal on Friday morning, September 18, were bounced back to their filers due to a temporary glitch in the system.

Submissions that required paying a filing fee or other statutory cost were not accepted for about four hours, and instead were returned to filers’ “work bench” section of their filing accounts. The work bench is where a user – and the vast majority are lawyers – can store unfinished submissions for later completion.

According to portal records, there were 161 rejected submissions, which can contain up to 50 MB of data and more than one document.