Ohio S.Ct.Prac.R. 3.09

(A) Applicability to paper and electronic documents

The requirements of this rule apply to both paper documents and electronic documents

submitted through the E-Filing Portal, unless a provision is clearly inapplicable to

electronically filed documents.

(B) General

(1) Typeface; single-sided

(a) Every original document filed with the Supreme Court shall be single-sided,

shall be typewritten or prepared by computer, word processor, or other standard

typographic process, and shall comply with the requirements of this rule. The Clerk

of the Supreme Court shall scan and make part of the record only the single-sided

pages of a document.

(b) The text of all documents shall be at least 12 -point type and in one of the

following typefaces:

(i) Times New Roman;

(ii) Cambria;

(iii) Calibri;

(iv) Arial Standard (i.e., not Black, Rounded, Unicode, or Narrow);

(v) Palatino Linotype;

(vi) Century Schoolbook.

(c) If one of the typefaces specified by division (B)(1)(b) of this rule is not

available, the filing party shall use a typeface that is substantially equivalent to the

typefaces listed in that division and that has no more than eighty characters to a line

of text.

(d) Italic type may be used only for case citations and emphasis.

(e) The Clerk of the Supreme Court may accept a handwritten document for

filing only in an emergency, provided the document is legible.

(f) The text of all documents must be sufficiently dark to be legible when

scanned.

(2) Paper

(a) All documents shall be on opaque, unglazed, 20 to 22 -pound weight white

paper, 8 1/2 by 11 inches in size.

(b) The original shall not be stapled or otherwise bound and shall not contain

dividers or tabs.

(c) All margins shall be at least one inch, and the left margin shall be justified.

(d) Documents shall not be enclosed in notebooks or binders and shall not have

plastic cover pages.

(3) Spacing and footnotes

The text of all documents shall be double-spaced. Footnotes and quotations may

be single-spaced; however, they shall also be in 12-point type.

(C) Copy of an opinion or decision

(1) When these rules require that a copy of a court or agency opinion or decision be

attached to a document filed with the Supreme Court, the copy shall be either of the

following:

(a) A photocopy of the opinion or decision issued directly by the court or

agency;

(b) An electronically generated copy that meets the requirements of division

(B)(3) of this rule, except that an electronically generated copy of an opinion may

be single-spaced.

(2) Unless otherwise required by these rules or the Supreme Court Rules for the

Reporting of Opinions, parties are discouraged from attaching to briefs any legal decision

generally accessible through online legal-research databases.

(D) Supplements to briefs

Any supplement to the briefs filed pursuant to Rule 16.09 may be prepared and reproduced

by photocopying the relevant documents in the record, even if those documents do not

comply with the mechanical requirements of division (B) of this rule, provided that the

requirements as to paper size and paper type are met and each page of the supplement is

clearly legible. Both sides of the paper may be used in preparing a supplement.

(E) Volumes

(1) Paper documents

Any paper document filed with the Supreme Court that exceeds two inches in

thickness shall be numbered in two or more parts, with each part containing a cover

page and a certificate of service.

(2) Electronic documents

Any electronic document filed with the Supreme Court that exceeds three-hundred

pages shall be submitted as two or more Portable Document Format (“PDF”) files,

with each PDF file containing a cover page and a certificate of service.

(3) Cover page

When a document is submitted in multiple volumes, all volumes shall contain a

cover page as required by Rule 3.07.

(F) Failure to comply

Documents that fail to comply with the requirements of this rule may be stricken by the

Supreme Court.