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COURT ALSO INTENDS TO PROVIDE DIGITIZED CASE DOCUMENTS ON THE WEB
It is now easier to track the developments in cases pending before the Supreme Court of Ohio thanks to a new service launched on the Court's Web site, Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer announced today at a workshop for Ohio judges and journalists at the Ohio Judicial Center.
“This latest enhancement to the Supreme Court's Web site is part of the Court's ongoing commitment to use technology to facilitate public understanding of the courts,” Chief Justice Moyer said, commending the efforts of the Court's Office of Information Technology and Office of the Clerk for the new capability.
To access the Court's Case Activity Notification Service, simply subscribe to the case tracking system through the Court's Web site (www.supremecourtofohio.gov/rss/subscription) using an e-mail address and creating a password. Searching is simple – by case name, case number or more generally by the year the case was filed.
Once subscribers have identified the case they want to track, they choose whether to be notified of any case activity, such as a new filing, through e-mail or RSS (Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary), or both. For more information about RSS feeds, visit www.supremecourtofohio.gov/RSS.
In addition to the new case notification service, digital images of case documents soon will be available on the Court's Web site through case dockets. An icon next to a docket entry will denote that the corresponding digital document is available to view as a PDF file. The clerk's office will scan case documents when they are filed to make them available to the public no later than the end of the next business day. The Court intends ultimately to provide users with the capability to do text searches of all scanned case documents for research purposes.
These new services join a list of resources the Supreme Court provides on its Web site, including previews of all oral arguments before the Court, access to all of the Court's rulings and opinions, summaries of the Court's merit decisions with opinions, as well as streaming live video and archived video of all oral arguments before the Court.
For more information about the Supreme Court visit www.supremecourtofohio.gov.
Contact: Chris Davey or Andrea M. Strle at 614.387.9250.