RULE 2.245. CASE REPORTING SYSTEM FOR TRIAL COURTS

(a) Reporting. The clerk of the circuit court shall report the
activity of all cases before all courts within the clerk’s jurisdiction to
the supreme court in the manner and on the forms established by
the office of the state courts administrator and approved by order of
the court. In those jurisdictions where separate offices of the clerk
of the circuit court and clerk of the county court have been
established by law, the clerk of the circuit court shall report the
activity of all cases before the circuit court, and the clerk of the
county court shall report the activity of all cases before the county
court.

(b) Uniform Case Numbering System.

(1) The clerk of the circuit court and the clerk of the
county court, where that separate office exists, shall use the
Uniform Case Numbering System. The uniform case number shall
appear upon the case file, the docket and minute books (or their
electronic equivalent), and the complaint.

(2) The office of the state courts administrator shall
distribute to the respective clerks of the circuit and county courts
appropriate instructions regarding the nature and use of the
Uniform Case Numbering System.