Niles Municipal Court, Ohio Electronic Filing Rules

CRITICAL

Beginning October 1, 2025, civil filings must be e-filed, except for the listed filing types and any hardship exemption the Judge permits.

Beginning October 1, 2025, all civil filings must be e- filed with the exception of trusteeships, garnishments and rental escrow. Hardship exemptions will be permitted at the discretion of the Judge.

CRITICAL

No person may use, or allow another person to use, someone else’s password for electronic filing.

no person shall utilize, or allow another person to utilize, the password of another in connection with electronic filing.

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A filer must preregister for web portal access by creating an account through the case-management-system link.

Pre-registration for web portal access is required and is available by creating an account accessed by a link to our case management system.

CRITICAL

Applies to

Complaint

A complaint exceeding 50 pages, including attachments and exhibits, may not be e-filed and must instead be submitted in enough hard copies for the Clerk to serve all parties.

A complaint consisting of more than fifty (50) pages in length including attachments and exhibits shall not be accepted for electronic filing but must be submitted in hard copy in sufficient number for the clerk to serve a copy on all parties.

CRITICAL

An attorney may authorize only an employee to electronically file on the attorney’s behalf.

no attorney shall authorize any person to electronically file on that attorney’s behalf, other than his or her employee;

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Applies to

Motion to seal

A party seeking to file an unredacted document under seal must electronically file a motion to seal.

The party seeking to file an un-redacted document shall electronically file a motion to file the document under seal.

CRITICAL

Third-party electronic filing providers may not be used.

NOTE: third party electronic filing providers are not acceptable;

CRITICAL

A filer unable to file electronically because of a technical failure must file a hard copy with the Clerk of Court.

A filer who cannot file a document electronically because of technical failure must file a hard copy of the document with the Clerk of Court.

WARNING

The Clerk of Court may deny a party, firm, or agency access to e-filing for habitual nonconformance with the rules or uncorrected equipment incompatibility.

The Clerk of Court reserves the right to deny any party, firm, or agency the use of e-filing because of habitual nonconformance of these rules and/or equipment incompatibility issues that are not corrected.

WARNING

After an electronic filing is accepted and becomes part of the docket, only the Clerk of Courts may correct the docket; the filing party cannot change the document or docket entry through the system.

Once a document is electronically submitted and becomes part of the case docket, corrections to the docket are made only by the Clerk of Courts. The system does not permit a filing party to make changes to a document or docket entry once the transaction has been accepted.

INFO

Applies to

Traffic ticket

The Court permits the use and filing of tickets produced by computer or other electronic means.

The use and filing of a ticket that is produced by computer or other electronic means is hereby authorized in the Niles Municipal Court.

INFO

Criminal and traffic filings may be submitted through the Court’s web portal.

criminal and traffic filings may, be transmitted to the Court via the Court’s web portal.

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A person who files electronically is not required to file a hard copy with the Clerk.

The person filing electronically need not file a hard copy with the Clerk of Court but must maintain in his or her records and have available for production upon request by the Court, the Clerk of Court, or other counsel, the source document of any document electronically filed.

INFO

Complaints, pleadings, and other documents may be filed electronically with the Clerk, subject to the rule’s provisions.

Subject to the provisions of this rule, complaints, pleadings, and other documents may be filed with the Clerk of Court electronically via the Internet.