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

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Pleadings, motions, and other filings must be legibly typewritten or printed, double-spaced, single-sided, on 8½-by-11-inch paper, with specified top margins.

All pleadings, motions and other court filings shall be legibly typewritten or printed and be double spaced on a single-sided 8 ½” x 11” paper and shall have a 2” top margin on the first page and a 1” top margin on subsequent pages.

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Motions must be stapled without dividers or tabs, which the clerk may remove if submitted.

Motions must be bound only by a staple and free of dividers or tabs. If dividers or tabs are submitted, the clerk of courts is authorized to remove them prior to filing, docketing and scanning.

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Format

PDF

Every source document submitted by email must be in PDF format.

All source documents emailed shall be in the form of a pdf file.

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Format

PDF

The Court will not consider email subject-line or body contents, and emailed documents must be submitted in PDF format.

The Court will not consider the contents of the subject line or body of an email or any documents that are not submitted in a pdf format.

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Format

PDF

All e-filed documents must be PDFs except proposed orders.

2. Portable Document Format. With the exception of proposed orders, all e-filed documents must be filed as a portable document format (PDF) file.

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Format

DOCX

Proposed orders must be submitted in Microsoft Word format, identify the specific motion, and be served on all parties contemporaneously.

3. Proposed Orders. Proposed orders must be submitted in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) format, must reference the specific motion to which they apply, and must be contemporaneously served on all parties.

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A submission or combined PDFs in one transmission may not exceed 20 MB; oversized filings are rejected and must be filed on paper or divided into additional PDFs of 20 MB or less.

4. Size of Filing. Submissions are limited to twenty megabytes in size. No combination of PDF files in one transmission may aggregate to more than twenty megabytes in size. Filings that exceed this size limit will be rejected by the Clerk and must be filed as a paper document. Larger submissions must be broken down in additional PDF’s of 20 MB or less.

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Format

PDF

Documents bearing another person’s signature may be e-filed only as a scanned PDF containing a holographic signature.

Documents containing signatures of someone other than the party filing the document (such as: affidavits, depositions, etc.) may be e-filed only as a scanned PDF document containing a holographic signature.

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Margins

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Pleadings, motions, and other filings must be legibly typewritten or printed, double-spaced, single-sided, on 8½-by-11-inch paper, with specified top margins.

All pleadings, motions and other court filings shall be legibly typewritten or printed and be double spaced on a single-sided 8 ½” x 11” paper and shall have a 2” top margin on the first page and a 1” top margin on subsequent pages.

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Motions must be bound only with a staple.

Motions must be bound only by a staple

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Format

PDF

Every source document sent by email must be a PDF file.

All source documents emailed shall be in the form of a pdf file.

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Format

PDF

The Court disregards email subject lines and bodies and will not consider emailed documents unless they are submitted in PDF format.

The Court will not consider the contents of the subject line or body of an email or any documents that are not submitted in a pdf format. If a document is not submitted in a pdf format, the clerk of courts will not open, print or maintain the document in the Court’s file.

WARNING

E-filed documents must follow Local Rules to the extent practicable; internal links are barred unless incorporated into the document, and external links are prohibited.

1. Format. All e-filed documents must, to the extent practicable, be formatted in accordance with Local Rules. A filed document may not contain internal links to other documents or references in the court’s case management system, unless the links are incorporated into the filed document. External links are prohibited.

WARNING

Motions must not include dividers or tabs, which the clerk may remove before filing, docketing, and scanning.

and free of dividers or tabs. If dividers or tabs are submitted, the clerk of courts is authorized to remove them prior to filing, docketing and scanning.

WARNING

Case numbers on pleadings, motions, and other filings must use the stated year, court, month, and case designations in the specified sequence.

All case numbers on pleadings, motions and other court filings shall appear as follows: Supreme 4 digit year 2 digit month 4 digit case space Court space space designation designation designation designation 2001 CR 03 0042 Examples: 2001 CR 03 0042 1998 TC 06 0166 1997 CV 12 0876