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Digital images of case documents filed with the Supreme Court of Ohio will be available starting Friday, Dec. 1, on the Supreme Court of Ohio's Web site. This new feature is accessible through the Clerk of Court's online case docket search.
All case documents filed with the Court as of Dec. 1 will be available online, however, some case filings from earlier dates also will be online as they were scanned in the last month while the software was being tested. Case documents are expected to be posted within one business day of being filed with the Court. To view case documents online, visit the Clerk of Court's Web page (www.supremecourtofohio.gov/Clerk_of_Court) and search the case docket. Filings can be accessed by clicking on an icon next to a docket entry, which denotes that a corresponding digital document is available to view as a PDF file.
“Scanning will allow for quick and easy access to public case filings,” said Marcia Mengel, Supreme Court Clerk of Court, who estimates about 14,000 pages will be scanned per month. “Once a case filing is scanned into our system, it can be viewed on the Internet by anyone, anywhere, anytime day or night. Accessing documents online will also facilitate research that could be done in the past only by coming to the Clerk's office and poring through paper files.”
Earlier this month the Supreme Court announced a new Case Activity Notification Service that makes for easier tracking of developments in cases pending before the Supreme Court. The service can be accessed by subscribing 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.
These new services, which are the result of a collaborative effort by the Court's Office of the Clerk and Office of Information Technology, including its director Robert Stuart, 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: Andrea M. Strle at 614.387.9250.