La. R. Sup. Ct. 5

As amended through October 31, 2024
Section 5

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

(a) A chronological index by date, item, and page of all filings in the entire record;
(b) An alphabetical index by item and page of all filings in the entire record;
(c) A chronological or numerical index of the documents and exhibits introduced in evidence;
(d) Typed copies of the minutes showing the date of each entry;
(e) All pleadings, together with documents and exhibits annexed, and orders of court with respect thereto, in the order in which they are made and filed except that answers to interrogatories or to similar inquiries shall immediately follow the interrogatories;
(f) 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;
(g) Reasons for judgment and judgments, both interlocutory and final;
(h) Petition or motion, and order and bond for appeal;
(i) The transcript of oral testimony in the order in which it is taken, preceded by 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 by an alphabetical index of the witnesses called by the respective litigants and the page at which their testimony commenced on each occasion they testified.

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

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

(j) Where documents or exhibits are too bulky or it is otherwise not feasible to bind them, they may be included in an exhibit envelope or envelopes, with a list and identification of the enclosed exhibits attached to the envelope(s). The duplicate record need not reproduce such exhibits. Depositions introduced into evidence, however, must be made part of the original and duplicate records.

La. R. Sup. Ct. 5