Warren County Court of Common Pleas, General Division Adjournment & Extension Requirements

A mediation continuance requires good cause and a mutually acceptable future date, may be granted by the referring judge or magistrate, generally cannot be justified solely by pending motions, and will not be granted unless the mediation can occur before the final pretrial.

Continuances of scheduled mediations shall be granted only for good cause shown after a mutually acceptable future date has been determined. The judge or magistrate who referred the case may continue the case. Except as authorized by the Court, the existence of pending motions shall not be good cause for a continuance and no continuance will be granted unless the mediation can be scheduled prior to the final pretrial.

A party seeking a continuance of a trial or hearing must file a written motion endorsed by the moving party and counsel.

No party shall be granted a continuance of a trial or hearing except upon written motion endorsed by the moving party and his or her counsel.

In civil cases, the continuance motion must be signed by both counsel and the party seeking the continuance.

In civil cases, the motion shall be signed by both counsel and the party on whose behalf the continuance is sought.

A continuance must include a contemporaneous new date for the matter.

No continuance shall be granted without contemporaneously setting the matter of a new date.

A continuance motion based on a conflicting trial assignment must attach documentation of the conflict and be filed at least 30 days before trial.

A motion to continue for the reason set forth above shall be accompanied by documentation of the conflicting trial assignment is attached thereto and the motion is filed not less than 30 days prior to trial.

Counsel may not request or receive a continuance because counsel was substituted.

(2) No continuance shall be requested or granted as a result of a substitution of counsel.

Additional time to answer or reply after the deadline may be obtained only under Civil Rule 6.

(2) Where the time for answer or reply has already expired, additional time for filing such answer or reply may be obtained only as provided in Civ.R. 6.

The Court may grant an ex parte extension of up to 30 days for filing a memorandum contra if no prior extension was granted; any later or longer extension requires written opposing-party approval or a noticed motion.

The Court may grant an ex parte extension of up to thirty (30) days for the filing of a memorandum contra provided that no prior extension has been granted. Any subsequent extension of time or any extension in excess of thirty (30) days may be granted only with written approval of the opposing party, or upon motion and notice to the opposing party.

A mediation continuance requires good cause and a mutually acceptable future date; pending motions generally are not good cause, and the mediation must be schedulable before the final pretrial unless the Court authorizes otherwise.

Continuances of scheduled mediations shall be granted only for good cause shown after a mutually acceptable future date has been determined. The judge or magistrate who referred the case may continue the case. Except as authorized by the Court, the existence of pending motions shall not be good cause for a continuance and no continuance will be granted unless the mediation can be scheduled prior to the final pretrial.

If a grand jury takes no final action within 60 days after bindover, the charge must be dismissed unless the prosecuting attorney obtains a continuance for good cause and for a definite period.

When an accused has been bound over to a grand jury and no final action is taken by the grand jury within 60 days after the date of the bindover, the Court or the administrative judge of the Court shall dismiss the charge unless for good cause shown the prosecuting attorney is granted a continuance for a definite period of time.

A scheduled mediation continuance may be granted only when good cause is shown and the parties have determined a mutually acceptable future date.

Continuances of scheduled mediations shall be granted only for good cause shown after a mutually acceptable future date has been determined.

Pending motions generally do not constitute good cause for a mediation continuance, and no continuance will be granted unless the mediation can occur before the final pretrial.

Except as authorized by the court, the existence of pending motions shall not be good cause for a continuance and no continuance will be granted unless the mediation can be scheduled prior to the final pretrial.

A continuance motion must state whether the opposing counsel or party supports or opposes it.

The motion for continuance shall indicate whether opposing counsel/party supports or opposes the motion.

When counsel has a conflicting trial assignment, the case set first for trial takes priority.

When the continuance of a trial or hearing is requested because counsel is scheduled to appear in another case assigned for trial on the same date in this or another court, the case that was set first for trial shall take priority.

The assigned trial judge may waive the continuance requirements upon a showing of good cause.

The assigned trial judge may waive any of the above requirements upon a showing of good cause.

The court may grant an ex parte 30-day extension to answer or reply to a counterclaim only before the original deadline expires and only if no prior extension was granted.

(A) Leave may be granted ex parte for an additional 30 days for filing of an answer or a reply to a counterclaim, provided that the time for filing of an answer or reply has not yet expired and no previous extension has been granted.

The response time periods may be extended by the Court upon application and a showing of good cause.

The time periods set forth in this section may be extended by the Court upon application and for good cause shown.

A party may request a continuance to obtain a lawyer.

You may ask for a continuance to obtain a lawyer per R.C. 2903.214(D)(2)(iii).