|
index
SHAKER HEIGHTS
MUNICIPAL COURT
Face Coverings
Must be Worn!
Based
upon recommendations from Responsible RestartOhio, all persons
entering the Shaker Heights Municipal Court and its building are required to
wear a face mask, COVERING NOSE AND MOUTH, at all times.
You
must also follow all COVID-19 hand-washing protocols, along with proper social distancing.
COVID-19 RELATED PROVISIONS
Shaker Heights Municipal Court
Pursuant to Judicial Order dated June 5, 2020, the following rules
are in place at Shaker Heights Municipal Court, subject to modification,
through July 31, 2020:
- All
individuals entering the Court shall wear a mask covering their
nose and mouth at all times. Refusal to wear a mask may result in
penalties for failure to appear unless an individual cannot wear a mask
for medical reasons. Appropriate receptacles shall be used for any desired
mask disposal when exiting the Court.
- All
individuals entering the Court shall be given a temperature check test strip, as available. Those with a fever
shall not be admitted and their business rescheduled.
- Only individuals with business
at the court shall be admitted.
Family, friends, rides and children (with rare exception) shall not enter
the Court.
- Traffic and criminal
arraignments shall take place in person
with appropriate social distancing and other safeguards in place.
- Status reports for the court’s
DUS docket shall take place in person
with appropriate social distancing and other safeguards in place.
- Change of pleas, sentencings,
status reports for first offense OVIs, and housing case status reports shall take place via video conferencing
(zoom)/telephonically through the month of July with approval of the
parties.
- Criminal and civil pretrials shall take place via video conferencing (zoom)/ telephonically
through the month of July and until further order of Court.
- Traffic and criminal bench
trials shall resume in person on July
2, 2020.
- Criminal
and civil jury trials shall
resume in August 2020, with appropriate distancing and safeguards in
place.
- Suppression
and other criminal motion hearings
shall resume in person in July 2020, with appropriate distancing and
safeguards in place.
- Civil motion hearings, R.I.T.A.
cases, and mediations shall take
place via video conferencing (zoom)/telephonically through the month of
July 2020.
- Eviction cases shall be heard in person or stayed by decision of the
court made on a case-by-case basis. Those which proceed in person shall
require appropriate distancing and safeguards.
- Civil trials shall resume in person on June 25, 2020, with
appropriate distancing and safeguards in place.
- Small Claims trials shall resume on July 10, 2020, with appropriate
distancing and safeguards in place.
- Garnishments and exams shall be heard in person with appropriate distancing
and safeguards in place.
- The
Clerk’s Office shall be open
from Monday – Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
- Filings
by fax are encouraged. The fax
number is 216-491-1314.
- Payments online are encouraged at shakerheightscourt.org.

Welcome to
the Shaker Heights Municipal Court website. The Shaker Heights Municipal
Court serves Beachwood, Hunting Valley, Pepper Pike, Shaker Heights, and
University Heights. We are committed to providing you with professional,
efficient, and friendly service and the continued improvement of those
services. Through this website we hope to provide an additional, interactive
method of communicating with you in order to further the availability
of court information and its operations. We welcome this opportunity to
make part of the judicial branch of your government more open and accessible
to you.
Sincerely,
K.J.
Montgomery, Judge
DISCLAIMER
The
Shaker Heights Municipal Court does not make any warranties or
representations with respect to the content, quality, accuracy or
completeness of any information or materials contained on the Shaker
Heights Municipal Court web server or through links to other servers,
including but not limited to: text, graphics, applications, databases,
services, or any other information or materials, nor shall the Shaker
Heights Municipal Court assume any legal liability for the content,
quality, accuracy or completeness of said information and materials.
The
information and materials contained on this web site have been compiled
from a variety of sources and, as such, are subject to change without
notice. In no event will the Shaker Heights Municipal Court be liable
for any damages, whether direct, indirect, general, consequential,
incidental, exemplary or special, arising from the use of information
provided on this server or through links to any other servers.
Communications
to the Court via this web site shall in no way be deemed to constitute
legal or official notice to the Shaker Heights Municipal Court , its
agencies, officers, employees, representatives or agents with respect
to any existing, pending or future claim or cause of action against the
Shaker Heights Municipal Court or any of its agencies, officers,
employees, representatives or agents where notice is required by
Federal, State or local law, nor shall communications to the Court via
this web site be deemed to constitute legal or official notice for any
other purpose.
|
|