Clinton County Court of Common Pleas, Ohio Service and Proof of Service Rules

WARNING

Applies to

Trial brief

Trial briefs need not be filed or served if counsel agree they will not be exchanged.

Trial briefs need not be filed or served if it has been agreed by counsel that they shall not be exchanged.

WARNING

At mediation’s conclusion, the mediator must provide copies of the report to the parties and, if represented, their attorneys.

At the conclusion of mediation, the mediator shall submit a mediation report to the Court (which shall not be filed in the Court's case file) and provide copies to the parties and their attorneys if represented.

WARNING

If directed to prepare proposed findings, the requesting party must serve a copy on opposing counsel.

When a timely written request for findings of fact and conclusions of law is made pursuant to Ohio Civil Rule 52, the Judge or Magistrate may direct the party making the written request to prepare, within seven (7) days, proposed findings of facts and conclusions of law and file them with the Court serving a copy on the opposing counsel.

WARNING

For a case with no proceedings for six months, other than one awaiting trial assignment, the assigned judge must give counsel or an unrepresented party 14 days’ written notice before dismissal for want of prosecution, unless good cause is shown.

In the event a case has been on the docket for six (6) months without any proceeding taken therein, except cases awaiting trial assignments, it shall be the duty of the assigned judge, after fourteen (14) days' written notice to counsel or the unrepresented party, to dismiss it for want of prosecution, unless good cause is shown to the contrary.

WARNING

Applies to

Motion for hospital record reproduction

A party seeking an order for reproduction of pertinent, nonprivileged hospital records must move on good cause and give notice to all other parties; the Judge may grant the order.

Upon motion of any party showing good cause and upon notice to all other parties, the Judge may order a hospital, by any agent competent to act in its behalf, to reproduce (by photostating or other recognized method of facsimile reproduction) all or any portion of designated hospital records or x-rays, not privileged, which constitute or contain evidence pertinent to an action pending in this Court.

WARNING

The applicable victim-notification provisions of Revised Code Chapter 2930 must be followed.

The victim notification provision of Revised Code Chapter 2930 shall be followed where applicable.