Local Rule 12.4.1: Disclosure Statements and Disqualification Requests
S.D. Ohio — Criminal rule
12.4.1 Disclosure Statements and Disqualification Requests
(a) No filing is required of individuals who are criminal defendants. Corporate defendants in criminal cases shall file statements as provided in Fed. R. Crim. P. 12.4. If such a filing occurs before all facts have been fully investigated, the disclosure statement shall be expressly noted as potentially incomplete. Counsel shall promptly thereafter investigate and supplement an incomplete disclosure statement.
(b) Disqualification. In addition to addressing corporate disclosures, all counsel are directed to consider at the earliest opportunity whether there may be any reason for a Judge of this Court to disqualify himself or herself pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 144 or § 455 and to advise the Court in writing as early as possible in the case about any such concerns.