Crawford County Court of Common Pleas, Ohio Document Format Requirements

CRITICAL

Trial exhibits must be marked before trial; copies must be provided to opposing counsel no later than five days before trial and to the Court on trial day, using numerical labels for plaintiffs and alphabetical labels for defendants.

All exhibits to be used during trial shall be marked before the commencement of the trial. Photocopies shall be made and given to opposite counsel preferably before the pre‑trial conference, however, in no event less than FIVE (5) days before trial. Photocopies also shall be provided to the Court on the day of trial. Plaintiffs shall use the numerical designation, while the Defendants shall use alphabetical designation.

CRITICAL

Pleadings and other filed papers must be legibly typewritten, have a legal caption, and be double-spaced, or the Court may strike them at the filer’s cost.

All pleadings and other papers filed in an action shall be neatly and plainly typewritten with legal caption and double spaced so that they can be easily read, or the Court may strike them from the files at the cost of the party filing them.

WARNING

A faxed signed document must be transmitted either with the signature or with “/s/” and the signer’s name in the signature location.

A sending party who wishes to file a signed source document by fax shall either fax a copy of the signed source document or fax a copy of the document without the signature but with the notation “/s/” followed by the name of the signing person where the signature appears in the signed source document.

WARNING

Margins

top 2.5 in

The Clerk requests that filers leave a 2.5-inch top margin on the cover page of every document, including appellate documents.

Effective immediately, that you leave a two and one-half (2½) inch margin at the top of the cover page of all documents, including Court of Appeals documents.

WARNING

Amended pleadings must not replace or obliterate the original or use interlineation or delineation unless the Court grants special leave and the proposed words are set out fully in the journal.

In no case where pleadings are amended, shall the original pleadings be withdrawn from the files or any part thereof obliterated; nor shall the amendment be made by interlineation or delineation, except by special leave of Court, and if such is granted, the words to be interlined and/or delineated shall be set forth in full on the journal.