Clark County Court of Common Pleas, General Division Filing Timing and Cure Windows

An e-filing is filed on the date and time the Clerk's platform accepts it, and requests received by 4:00 p.m. during regular business hours are processed that same day.

j. The date and time an e-filing is "accepted" on the clerk's e-filing platform shall be the date and time of filing on the case record. The Clerk's office shall process all filing requests that are received on or before 4:00pm during regular business hours, that same day.

The Clerk may not accept or docket an entry until the appropriate judge approves it.

No entry shall be accepted or docketed by the Clerk until it is approved by the appropriate judge.

The pretrial statement must be filed at least one week before trial.

The Court may review and discuss with counsel their Pretrial Statements (to be filed at least one week prior to trial)

Deadline

14 calendar days

The opposition memorandum must be filed and served within 14 days after service of notice of the motion.

Be filed and served within fourteen (14) days from the time notice of the motion was served, pursuant to Ohio Civ. R. 6(E).

Deadline

10 calendar days

A moving party may file a reply memorandum, which must be filed within 10 days after service of notice of the opposition memorandum.

C. Moving parties may file a reply memorandum to the opposing party's memorandum in opposition to the motion. The reply brief must be filed within ten (10) days from the time notice of the opposing party's memorandum in opposition to the motion was served, pursuant to Ohio Civ. R. 6(E).

A termination entry must be presented for approval within 30 days after the case is settled.

Counsel shall notify the Court if a case is settled and present a termination entry for approval within thirty (30) days.

A request for a view made after pretrial will not be granted.

Requests made after pretrial will not be granted.

Except for the listed discovery materials, all papers required to be served after the complaint must be filed within three days after service.

In accordance with Ohio Civil Rule 5(D), all papers, after the complaint, required to be served upon a party shall be filed with the Court within three days after service, but depositions upon oral examination, interrogatories, requests for documents, requests for admission, and answers and responses thereto shall not be filed unless on order of the Court or for use as evidence or for consideration of a motion in the proceeding.

After a contested decision, counsel must prepare the final entry and submit it to opposing counsel for approval within fourteen days.

After a decision has been rendered by the Court or Jury in a contested matter, the Court will request that counsel prepare the final entry. Counsel shall have fourteen (14) days to submit the final entry to opposing counsel for approval.

An entry ordering consolidation must be filed with the Clerk of Courts within five days after the court grants consolidation.

When two or more cases are consolidated, an Entry ordering said consolidation shall be filed with the Clerk of Courts within five days of the Court granting the consolidation.

A court judgment becomes effective when its judgment entry is filed and journalized with the Clerk of Courts.

The judgment of the Court shall be effective upon the filing and journalization of a judgment entry with the Clerk of Courts.

After receiving the final entry, opposing counsel has seven days to submit it to the court for approval.

Opposing counsel shall have seven (7) days to submit the entry to the Court for approval.

At least 14 days before the scheduled sale date, requesting counsel must file a Certificate of Service of Notice of Sale Date with the Clerk identifying the service details and recipients; failure to do timely may result in denial of sale confirmation.

V. Not less than fourteen (14) days prior to the scheduled sale date, counsel for the party requesting the sale shall file with the Clerk of Courts a Certificate of Service of Notice of Sale Date specifying the date and manner of service and the names and addresses of all interested parties or their respective counsel of record who were sent notice. Failure to timely file the certificate of service required by this rule shall constitute grounds for denial of the confirmation of sale.

Deadline

10 calendar days

A motion to set aside a magistrate's pretrial order must state objections with particularity and be filed within ten days after the order is entered.

Any person may appeal to the Court from any order of a magistrate under division III (A) of this rule by filing a motion to set the order aside, stating the party's objections with particularity. The motion shall be filed no later than ten days after the magistrate's order is entered.

Deadline

14 calendar days

Any party may file objections to a magistrate's decision within fourteen days after the decision is filed.

Objections to the Magistrate's decision may be filed by any party within fourteen (14) days of the filing of the Magistrate's decision.

Deadline

10 calendar days

A party may file objections or a response within ten days after another party timely files objections.

If any party timely files objections, any other party may also file objections or a response not later than ten (10) days after the first objections are filed.

Deadline

30 calendar days

The moving party must file the transcript within thirty days after objections are filed, unless the magistrate extends the time in writing for reporter inability or waives the transcript requirement upon motion.

A transcript must be filed with the Court by the moving party within thirty (30) days after the filing of objections to the Magistrate's decision unless the Magistrate, in writing, extends the time for inability of the reporter to complete the transcript of the testimony, or, upon motion, waives the requirement for filing a transcript.

Deadline

3 calendar days

A transcript request must be submitted to the proper court reporter within three days after objections are filed.

The request for a transcript shall be submitted to the proper court reporter within three (3) days after filing of objections.

Deadline

20 calendar days

Unless the court grants an extension, the appellant must file the claim of error, brief, and other essential papers within 20 days after the later of the notice-of-appeal filing or transcript filing.

Unless the Court has authorized an extension of time, the appellant shall file a claim of error, brief, and all other essential papers within twenty (20) days after the notice of appeal has been filed or the filing of the transcript, whichever is later.

Deadline

15 calendar days

Appellee’s counsel must file the appellee’s brief within 15 days after service of the appellant’s brief.

Within fifteen (15) days after service of appellant's brief, counsel for appellee shall file his brief.

Deadline

10 calendar days

The appellant must file any reply brief within 10 days after the appellee’s brief is served.

All reply briefs shall be filed by appellants within ten (10) days after appellee's brief has been served.

The court will automatically set a non-oral hearing one day after the reply-brief filing deadline expires.

The motion will automatically receive a non oral hearing from the court (1) day after the deadline for moving parties to file their "reply memorandum to the opposing party's memorandum in opposition" has expired.

Deposition notices, interrogatories, discovery requests, requests for admission, and related answers and responses may not be filed absent a court order or specified use in the proceeding.

Depositions upon oral examination, interrogatories, requests for documents, requests for admission, and answers and responses thereto shall not be filed unless on order of the Court or for use as evidence or for consideration of a motion in the proceeding.

If counsel refuses to sign an entry and does not submit an alternative within seven days, the original entry must go to the court with a notation that it was not signed or returned.

If counsel refuses to sign an entry presented and does not present an alternative entry within seven (7) days, the original entry shall be presented to the Court for approval with a notation that the entry was submitted, was not signed or returned by counsel.

A receiver must file an affidavit stating that property was sold for the best price obtainable within ten days after any sale.

the receiver shall file an affidavit to that effect within ten (10) days after any sale.

A receiver must file a report of receipts and disbursements with the Clerk of Courts within 90 days after appointment and every 90 days thereafter.

Within ninety (90) days of the date of their appointment and every ninety (90) days thereafter receivers shall file a report of receipts and disbursements with the Clerk of Courts.

When a party requests findings of fact and conclusions of law, the objection-filing period begins when the magistrate files the decision containing those findings and conclusions.

If a party makes a request for findings of fact and conclusions of law, the time for filing objections begins to run when the Magistrate files a decision including findings of fact and conclusions of law.