If you file legal actions in Franklin or Fulton County, it is important that you file these actions in accordance with the local court rules. You will be able to search all the local court rules of the 39th Judicial District of Pennsylvania (the Court of Common Pleas covering Franklin and Fulton Counties) on this page by keywords or phrases.

Search Tips

At its simplest, a query can be just a word or a phrase. But with the tips on this page, you can expand the focus of your query to give you more complete results. These tips will help you get started.

• Basic Searching: Simply enter a word or phrase in the box above and press the "Search" button. All pages within the site containing these words will be returned, indexing by relevance. For ease of use, searches are not case-sensitive.
   
• Wildcard "*" Searching:
  Look for words with the same prefix or same stem word. For example, in your query form type key* to find key, keying, keyhole, keyboard, and so on.
  
  Examples:
  cat* will match cat, catalytic, catch etc..
  fly** will match flying, flown, flew etc..
  
   
• Multiple Words and Phrases: To search for phrases which may exist together (eg. Index Server) you must surround the query with speech marks ("index server").
  
  Example: "index server"
   
• The "AND" operator: Where a search is submitted containing multiple words or phrases this will return documents that contain all of the words or phrases. If you would prefer to use the "AND" operator, simply use "AND" between your keywords or phrases.
  
  Example: Index AND server
   
• The "AND NOT" operator: Where a searchis submitted that requires one word to be excluded this will return documents that contain the initial word listed and not the one word excluded in the search. If you would prefer to use the "AND NOT" operator, simply use "AND NOT" between your keywords or phrases.
  
  Example: Index AND NOT server
   
• The "OR" operator: Where a search is submitted containing multiple words or phrases this will return documents that contain at least one of the words or phrases. If you would prefer to use the "OR" operator, simply use "OR" between your keywords or phrases.
  
  Example: Index OR server
   
• The "NEAR" operator: Search with the keyword NEAR, rather than AND, for words close to each other. For example, both of these queries, system and manager and system near manager, look for the words system and manager on the same page. But with NEAR, the returned pages are ranked in order of proximity: The closer together the words are, the higher the rank of that page.
  
  Example: Index NEAR server
   
• Free Text Queries: The query engine finds pages that best match the words and phrases in a free-text query. This is done by automatically finding pages that match the meaning, not the exact wording, of the query. Boolean, proximity, and wildcard operators are ignored within a free-text query. Free-text queries are prefixed with $contents.
  
  Example: $contents endangering the welfare of a child (will return results mentioning welfare, child, and/or endangering)
   
• Vector Space Queries: The query engine supports vector space queries. Vector queries return pages that match a list of words and phrases. The rank of each page indicates how well the page matched the query.
  
  Examples:
  miranda, dui (will return results that contain specific words miranda and dui)
  miranda [50], rights [10], warn*, "miranda rights" (will return results that contain words prefixed by ?warn,? the words ?miranda,? ?rights,? and the terms are weighted)