WRITING MANUAL - Supreme Court - State of Ohio

HOW TO DO FORMAL CAPTIONS FOR AN APPEAL
If Mary Stern and Joseph Lynch in the above pleading are the appellants
in this court and all defendants are appellees, the formal caption would
read:
STERN ET AL., APPELLANTS, v. XYZ CORPORATION ET AL.,
APPELLEES.
If Mary Stern is the sole appellant:
STERN, APPELLANT, ET AL., v. XYZ CORPORATION ET AL., APPELLEES.
If Lynch is the sole appellant:
STERN; LYNCH, APPELLANT, v. XYZ CORPORATION ET AL.,
APPELLEES.
If Stern and Lynch are appellees, and XYZ is the sole appellant:
STERN ET AL., APPELLEES, v. XYZ CORPORATION, APPELLANT, ET AL.
If Kent is the sole appellant:
STERN ET AL., APPELLEES, v. XYZ CORPORATION ET AL.; KENT,
APPELLANT.
If ABC Law Firm is the sole appellant:
STERN ET AL., APPELLEES, v. XYZ CORPORATION ET AL.; ABC LAW
FIRM, APPELLANT.
14.2. The “Cite-As Line.”
In the formal case caption, the first defendant listed in the original pleading is always the
first to appear after the “v.” In the cite-as line, the first defendant is the only name to
appear after the “v.,” even if that party has long ago disappeared from the litigation and
has filed nothing in this court. Thus, for all of the examples in “14.1. The Formal Case
Caption” above, the cite-as line would read:
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