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

CRITICAL

Filed pleadings, motions, briefs, and similar documents must be typewritten or printed on 8½-by-11-inch paper, sequentially paginated, and filed without backing or cover, while original attached or offered exhibits are exempt.

All pleadings, motions, briefs and other similar documents that are filed with the Clerk shall be typewritten or printed on 8-1/2" x 11" paper, paginated sequentially and filed without backing or cover. Original documents attached or offered as exhibits thereto are exempt from this requirement.

CRITICAL

Every filing must leave at least 2½ inches of blank space at the top of its first page for endorsements.

In all filings, a blank space of at least two and one-half inches shall be left at the top of the first page for endorsements thereon.

CRITICAL

Format

PAPER

Proposed orders must be forwarded in hard-copy form to the assigned judge or magistrate.

i. No proposed orders shall be submitted electronically. Any proposed orders must be forwarded in hard-copy to the assigned Judge or magistrate.

WARNING

Each electronic file is subject to a size limit, and the filer must compress the file as necessary to file it electronically.

k. There is a size limit to each file and it is the filer's duty to compress the file as necessary to file electronically.

WARNING

Proposed jury instructions must be provided in hard copy and on a disc.

10. Proposed jury instructions (Hard Copy and Disc).

WARNING

Memoranda must be submitted in double-spaced format; noncompliant briefs may be returned for reformation.

All memorandums shall: 3. Be submitted in double space format. Any brief that fails to comply with this rule may be returned by the Clerk for reformation.