Delaware County Court of Common Pleas, General Division Document Format Requirements

Format

PDF

All documents submitted to the court must be in PDF format.

Documents must be submitted in Portable Document Format (PDF).

Every facsimile filing must include a cover page and comply with the applicable Civil and Criminal Rules.

All facsimile transmissions tendered to the clerk for filing under this rule must comply with the applicable Civil Rules and Criminal Rules and include a cover page containing the following information:

The facsimile cover page must state the attorney’s identifying and contact information, transmission date and time, and total page count.

Name of attorney; Address of attorney; Ohio Supreme Court registration number of attorney; Telephone number of attorney; Facsimile number of attorney; Email address of attorney; Date and time of facsimile transmission; and Number of pages of facsimile transmission.

Every pleading, motion, and memorandum must be legibly typed or printed in at least 12-point font on 8.5-by-11-inch paper and paginated at the bottom of each page.

Every pleading, motion, and memorandum filed must be legibly typed or printed using a minimum font size of 12 points on 8.5-inch by 11-inch paper, paginated at the bottom of each page, and have typed or printed the case name, the case number, and the name of the judge.

Format

DOCX

The proposed entry must be submitted in Word format by email to the assigned judge’s chambers using the applicable listed address.

The Word format of the entries must be submitted to the email address [either HemmeterCourt@co.delaware.oh.us or SchuckCourt@co.delaware.oh.us] for the assigned judge’s chambers.

A motion or memorandum exceeding 20 pages must include a table of contents and table of authorities identifying sections, principal arguments, primary-authority citations, and page locations.

Any motion or memorandum exceeding 20 pages must include a table of contents and table of authorities, including reference to the main sections of the memorandum and the principal arguments and citations to primary authority made in each section, as well as the pages on which each section and any sub-sections may be found.

The clerk will not accept a deposition envelope containing more than one deposition.

The clerk will not accept for filing an envelope containing more than one deposition.

Counsel must arrange for appropriate redactions to a pre-recorded deposition before trial begins.

(4) Counsel must arrange to have the appropriate redactions on the pre-recorded deposition made prior to the start of trial.

Counsel must mark all exhibits as ordered in the scheduling entry.

All exhibits must be marked by counsel, as ordered in the scheduling entry.

The jury-service summons must be presented in a single document using readily understandable language.

The notice summoning a person to jury service will be set forth in a single document that is phrased in a manner that is readily understood by an individual unfamiliar with the legal and jury systems.