Appellate court eFiling - Downloading case documents

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Purpose: This document provides instructions for electronic notice parties on how to access individual case documents and download all associated documents as a zip file. Once downloaded, these documents can be viewed, printed, or saved locally on the user's computer.

Applicable Users: Appellate eFilers

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eFiling documents on an existing appeals case

1. Visit the Wisconsin appellate court eFiling website at https://acefiling.wicourts.gov/ and log in. For more information see the article Logging into Wisconsin appellate court eFiling.
2. . Select the my cases menu option or the My cases hyperlink.
   
3. Use the filter options to locate the case you wish to view.
   Note: To view closed cases, select the Click here to search link near the top of the
   page.
   
4. Select the View documents link to view case documents.
   
   Documents that were eFiled, scanned, or uploaded to the case are listed on the Documents tab.
   
   
   • To change the number of documents displayed at a time, select the number of documents from the Show drop down menu.
   • Select the document name link to view and/or print the document.
   • Document names displayed in black text (not a hyperlink) are restricted; you do not have view access to them.
   • Documents, with Submitted in the Date column, are awaiting processing by the court and are not part of the court record yet.
5. To download all case documents, select the [Download all documents] button.
   
6. After selecting the [Download all documents] button, a .zip file displays in the bottom left-hand corner of your monitor. Documents are in Adobe PDF format. If you are unable to see the .zip file there, you can check your Downloads folder for it.
   
7. Selecting the .zip file opens the files in a new window. Documents in the file are listed by “DocNumber - Name" where Name is the first 80 characters from the name of the document and any non alpha numeric characters other than spaces or '-' are replaced with '_' (underscore character).
   
8. Documents may be selected and printed.

Notes:

• Submitted documents, not yet processed by the Clerk of Courts, are not included in the zip file.
• Sealed or confidential documents to which an eCourts user does not have access are not included in the zip file.