| 135322860 | What actions, if any, did your court take during the reporting period to develop, clarify, and unify the law? | Actions taken during FY 2017-2018 to publish those written opinions that develop, clarify, and unify the law. |
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Actions taken during FY 2017-2018 to publish those written opinions that develop, clarify, and unify the law.
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Additional actions taken by the courts to address this objective
1st Circuit | The court adopted an annual set schedule of writ conferences and administrative conferences at the court to facilitate conferencing in person. The court's document management system allows court judges and staff to electronically search and review decisions, both published and unpublished, and internal reports to ensure uniformity in First Circuit decisions. As needed, the court sat en banc in order to clarify and unify prior court decisions. |
2nd Circuit | The court maintained ongoing strategies and efforts to provide qualified legal support staff, cost effective electronic legal research, and pre/post argument conferences to clarify and unify the law. |
3rd Circuit | The 3rd Circuit continued its recent developments seminar for district and city judges within the circuit at the annual Third Circuit Judges Association meeting and its annual August seminar for judges and their law clerks.
Judges and staff attorneys of the court also participated in recent development seminars for the local bar associations of Lafayette, Leesville, Alexandria, and the Southwest Louisiana Bar Association.
Further, in response to legislative actions regarding criminal cases involving domestic abuse, the court updated the criminal jurisdictional index and provided the index to its lower courts to include maintaining the confidentiality of the contact information of domestic violence victims.
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| Response | Response_Court |
| Additional actions taken by the courts to address this objective | 3 courts (1st Circuit, 2nd Circuit, 3rd Circuit) |
| Conducted discussions between trial court judges and appellate court judges regarding issues of law | 3 courts (3rd Circuit, 4th Circuit, 5th Circuit) |
| Continued to address this objective through the actions indicated below, or implemented the following new actions to address this objective as indicated below: | 5 courts (1st Circuit, 2nd Circuit, 3rd Circuit, 4th Circuit, 5th Circuit) |
| Created or maintained a docket management system for electronically searching prior decisions | 4 courts (1st Circuit, 3rd Circuit, 4th Circuit, 5th Circuit) |
| Developed or maintained specific strategies for encouraging and promoting effective collegiality among judges | 4 courts (1st Circuit, 3rd Circuit, 4th Circuit, 5th Circuit) |
| Developed or updated a standardized form of opinions | 1 court (3rd Circuit) |
| Did not address this objective | 0 |
| Obtained or maintained sufficient legal resources to facilitate the clarification, harmonization, and development of the law | 5 courts (1st Circuit, 2nd Circuit, 3rd Circuit, 4th Circuit, 5th Circuit) |
| Used pre- and post-argument conferences | 4 courts (2nd Circuit, 3rd Circuit, 4th Circuit, 5th Circuit) |
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