Court of Common Pleas of Potter County, Pennsylvania Filing Rules

Motions other than continuance motions must include a statement of authority, which may be filed as a contemporaneous brief or memorandum or, for routine noncomplex motions, included in the motion.

A person making the required entry for real estate presented as bond must pay the Prothonotary’s customary fees.

Establishing a PACFile account constitutes consent to electronic filing and electronic service of PACFile documents in any judicial district that permits electronic filing.

The entry of appearance must be provided to the Magisterial District Judge or filed with the Clerk of Courts before the pending proceeding begins.

Parties who decline or are unable to use PACFile may file legal papers in paper format.

Expedited or rough-draft transcript requests must ordinarily be written and filed with the Senior Court Reporter at least 10 days before the proceeding, but an emergency request may be made by oral motion.

ADA Title II complaints may be filed under the UJS Grievance Procedure with the ADA Coordinator using the listed contact information.

A party seeking to continue a covered inactive criminal proceeding must show good cause at the general call or the proceeding will be dismissed.

Before submitting a motion or petition, the movant or counsel must confer with all counsel of record and unrepresented parties to determine their positions.

Counsel and unrepresented parties must follow the applicable public-access policy and must not include confidential information in legal papers filed electronically or on paper.

Briefs are limited to 25 double-spaced pages, excluding the table of contents, table of citations, addenda with opinions, and similar supplementary matter; the limit does not apply to post-trial-motion briefs, and a non-conforming brief requires prior Court permission or exemption.