Muskingum County Court, Ohio Adjournment & Extension Requirements

CRITICAL

A continuance of a trial or hearing requires a written motion from the party or counsel stating the reason.

No party shall be granted a continuance of a trial or a hearing without a written motion from the party or his counsel stating the reason for the continuance.

CRITICAL

If the subpoena-request rule is not followed, a witness’s failure to appear is not grounds for a continuance.

If this rule is not complied with, failure of a witness to appear shall not be grounds for a continuance.

CRITICAL

An application to continue a pretrial conference must be addressed to the Judge.

Any application for continuance of the conference shall be addressed to the Judge.

CRITICAL

A request to extend a prescribed period must be in writing and state its grounds.

G. EXTENSIONS: Requests for the extensions of the prescribed periods must be in writing and state the grounds therefore.

WARNING

An assigned civil trial will not be removed because an expert cannot attend; during trial, reasonable efforts will be made to accommodate the expert, but no unreasonable delay will be granted for that reason.

No civil action that has been assigned a trial date will be removed from the assignment because of the inability of a medical or other expert witness to be present to testify. After a trial has commenced, reasonable effort will be made to accommodate the medical or their expert witness as to his appearance, but no unreasonable delay during trial will be granted for this reason.

WARNING

Granting another request to continue a scheduled trial is within the trial Court’s discretion.

The granting of any other request for continuance of a scheduled trial is a matter within the discretion of the trial Court.