1. Overview
Copies Of Public Record Requests
Appellate case records for the Court of Appeals, First Appellate District
of Ohio, are maintained by the Hamilton County Clerk of Courts. Public
records request should therefore be directed to the Hamilton County
Clerk of Courts and not the administrative offices of the Court of Appeals.
The website for the Hamilton County Clerk of Courts is:
www.courtclerk.org.
2. Links
Links from external websites to www.hamilton-co.org/appealscourt
are acceptable but must follow the following guidelines:
A. www.hamilton-co.org/appealscourt
must be provided its own window with full window resizing controls
available to the user. It is not acceptable to load www.hamilton-co.org/appealscourt
into a frame within another web site.
B. The contents of www.hamilton-co.org/appealscourt
should not be filtered or modified in a manner to purposefully alter
the content of the web site.
Links from www.hamilton-co.org/appealscourt to outside web sites are
provided for the convenience of the user. We are not responsible
for the availability, content or privacy practices of these other sites.
For information about the privacy practices of other sites,
see the privacy statement of the site, if available.
3. Unauthorized Utilization & Alteration
Users of www.hamilton-co.org/appealscourt are expressly prohibited
from reproducing, publishing on-line, selling, reselling or otherwise
disseminating data or information accessed pursuant to this policy,
except as permitted by law. The information accessed is not intended
or permitted to be used for commercial resale, except as permitted
by law.
Form Data
The submission of purposefully harmful form data is prohibited and
any users doing so will be blocked from the site and face potential
legal action. Lewd or perverse content is also forbidden from being
used or submitted (i.e. usernames, passwords, etc.) and doing so constitutes
grounds for permanent denial of service to a portion of or the entire
site.
Images and Documents
The images and documents contained on www.hamilton-co.org/appealscourt
are the property of Hamilton County Clerk of Courts. These images
and documents may be saved to a local computer for later viewing but
may not be modified in any way. Additionally, legal documents may
not be posted or referenced either on or off the internet, especially
in a manner to insinuate that they are the "official" or "original"
documents. Instead links may be provided to the appropriate document
or content on www.courtclerk.org.
4. Robots
The use of robots, scripts, code or any other executables
to access www.hamilton-co.org/appealscourt is forbidden except in the
following cases:
A. The web site is being spidered
for referencing in a search engine of HTML pages and online forms
only.
B. The express written consent of the Hamilton County
Clerk of Courts was provided allowing automated access of the site.
Any requests for automated access can be sent to the Webmaster and
will be forwarded for consideration.
C. Automated robots or scripts with permission to
access www.hamilton-co.org/appealscourt must announce themselves using
the User-Agent field of Hypertext Transfer Protocol as documented
here: http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Protocols/HTTP1.0/draft-ietf-http-spec.html#User-Agent
The Court of Appeals reserves the right to either temporarily or
permanently block access to www.hamilton-co.org/appealscourt to
robots, spiders and other "web agents" that disregard or violate this
policy. Additionally, the Court of Appeals reserves the right
to either temporarily or permanently block access to
www.hamilton-co.org/appealscourt for any user, robot, spider or other
"web agent"
that causes an unnecessarily large load on the site whether purposefully
or due to hardware or software problems on their local machine.
The use of robots, scripts, or any other programs with the intent of
automated data extraction is expressly forbidden without prior consent
as listed above. Any violation will constitute either the temporary
or permanent blocking of the source of any such automated extraction
attempts.
5. Availability of Data & Services
The information provided through this web site is extracted from the Court of Appeals electronic database.
Therefore, the information available through this site is not warranted to be accurate or current. Only the official
court records available from the Hamilton County Clerk of Courts, available in person, should be relied upon as
accurate and current. This web site is intended to be available seven days a week and twenty-four hours a day but
the Court of Appeals makes no guarantee in this regard. The Court of Appeals, First Appellate District, will not be
held liable for any problems or other issues resulting from the inaccessibility of www.hamilton-co.org/appealscourt.
6. Accessibility
In order for www.hamilton-co.org/appealscourt to fully function it is important
to access the site following the web compatibility standards. The accessibility of www.hamilton-co.org/appealscourt
online is subject to the terms set in the Availability of Data and Services.
7. Errors
Errors found in case information or in case documents
can be reported to the Court of Appeals by any of the means listed on
the
Contact Us page. Errors will be
researched and addressed appropriately in a timely manner on a case
by case basis.
8. Violations
Violations of any of the policies set forth in this document are grounds for possible prohibition
from the site or prosecution as the law and the Court of Appeals deems appropriate.
9. Limitation of Liability
Without waiving any other defenses or immunities provided by law, the Court of Appeals shall not be liable for
any demand or claim, regardless of form of action, arising out of or incident to the posting of information or
data on this web site, the accessing or use of any information or data on this web site, and/or the acts or
omissions of any person or entity accessing or use of any information from this web site. This includes, but
is not limited to, claims arising out of or incident to incorrect or incomplete data or information accessed
pursuant to these policies. All users are advised to independently verify any information or data obtained
pursuant to these policies with the official court record information reposing in the court files. The user
agrees that the services are provided "as is"; neither the Court of Appeals and/or their third-party providers
make any representation nor warranty with respect to accuracy, completeness, or current status; and they
specifically disclaim any other warranty, express, implied or statutory, including any warranty of merchantability
or fitness for a particular purpose. The Court of Appeals, its employees, and agents, do not expressly or
impliedly warrant that the information or data accessed by the user is accurate or correct. There are no expressed
or implied warranties in connection with this service. They shall not be liable on account of any such errors,
omissions, delays, or losses. The user agrees that in no event will the Court of Appeals or their third-party
providers be liable for the results of the user's use of the services, inability or failure to conduct its business,
or for indirect, special or consequential damages. The foregoing limitation of liability and exclusion of certain
damages shall apply regardless of the success or effectiveness of other remedies.
10. Agreement
By using this site you agree to the policies set forth
in this document and hereby relieve and release the Hamilton County
Clerk of Courts, its officers, employees, agents, and custodians from
liability from any and all damages resulting from the use of www.hamilton-co.org/appealscourt
in any way. As always, we welcome your comments and suggestions which
may be sent to our
Contact Us page.
11. Site Requirements
A. Browser Requirments
To best view this site, the following settings are recommended:
1. A minimum screen resolution
of 800 by 600 pixels
2. One of the following browsers:
a. Microsoft Internet Explorer
5.0 or higher
b. Netscape 5.1 or higher
3. JavaScript enabled
B. Document Viewing
In order to view certain documents additional programs may also be required.
Documents are available in both Adobe Acrobat .pdf or Microsoft .doc
formats. These Adobe Acrobat files require
Adobe
Acrobat Reader which can be downloaded for free from Adobe's website.