Ohio Loc. App. R. 12
Cases involving related transactions and the same or similar principles of law may be consolidated at the discretion of the Court either upon motion or sua sponte.
When consolidation has been ordered, the parties of each side shall endeavor to prepare a common brief with an allowance for special addenda to cover any proposition deemed essential by a particular party.
When consolidation is ordered, the consolidation order shall specify a controlling case number. The Clerk shall place all pleadings and entries filed subsequent to the consolidation order only in the controlling case number's file.
All pleadings filed in a consolidated case must show each of the case numbers of all the consolidated cases with the controlling case number shown first. The clerk shall place the consolidation order in the file of each of the consolidated case numbers. Any order closing a particular case shall be placed by the clerk in the file of that particular case.
All time constraints for filings shall be determined under the designated controlling case number.
Ohio. Loc. App. R. 12