| 1083433623 | Your court facilitated expedited trials | Your court facilitated expedited trials |
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Your court facilitated expedited trials
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If yes, what tools did you use and how well did they work?
ALEXANDRIA CITY COURT | Tool: trial-setting conferences that encouraged the setting of civil trial dates within 90-120 days. |
BAKER CITY COURT | Tool: the court's procedure in which criminal trials were scheduled within 60 days of the arraignment date and civil trials were scheduled within two weeks of any requested and agreed-upon date. |
BOSSIER CITY COURT | Tool: on arraignment date, on a simple traffic charge when the defendant did not qualify for an attorney and pled not guilty, the trial was held the same day immediately after arraignment court. This kept the docket load to a minimum. |
CROWLEY CITY COURT | Tool: the judge in this single-judge court set trial dates as soon as was convenient for all litigants. |
DENHAM SPRINGS CITY COURT | Tool: the new case management system. |
HOUMA CITY COURT | Tool: the court ensured that pre-trial hearings were used in juvenile cases. |
JEANERETTE CITY COURT | Tools: setting a trial date at arraignment, providing immediate discovery through file disclosure to attorneys, and using both a morning and afternoon trial date fixing so that multiple trials can be held on trial dates. |
JEFFERSON PARISH 1ST PARISH COURT | Tool: improvements to the in-house court software. |
JEFFERSON PARISH 2ND PARISH COURT | Tool: the court set status conferences and cut off dates and set motions and discovery hearings on the same day. |
JENNINGS CITY COURT | Tool: the court granted all reasonable requests, made additional court dates available, and allowed pre-hearing conferences. Results:
these tools seemed to work fine. |
LAFAYETTE CITY COURT | Tool: the court scheduled all trials within six weeks of a request for trial. |
LAKE CHARLES CITY COURT | Tool: pre-trial conferences. |
MINDEN CITY COURT | Tool: special setting when requested. |
MONROE CITY COURT | Tool: gave defendants the opportunity to make a plea agreement with the district attorney. The judge often stayed the case to grant the defendant more time to pay. |
NEW ORLEANS 1ST CITY COURT | Tool: engaged attorneys by holding status/settlement conferences. |
NEW ORLEANS 2ND CITY COURT | Tools: evening court and special settings for those matters that were lingering due to lawyers' delay in filing a motion for trial. |
NEW ORLEANS MUNICIPAL AND TRAFFIC COURT | Tool: the court re-arranged dockets and schedules. |
OAKDALE CITY COURT | Tool: attorneys were given extra court dates to accommodate moving matters to trial. |
PINEVILLE CITY COURT | Tool: settlement conferences. |
RAYNE CITY COURT | Tool: pre-trial conferences. Results: they work well. |
RUSTON CITY COURT | Tool: provided trial dates at times agreed and convenient to all parties. |
SLIDELL CITY COURT | Tool: calendar management and consistent scheduling. |
VIDALIA CITY COURT | Tool: general calendar availability which ensured quick trial turn-around if needed. |
VILLE PLATTE CITY COURT | Tool: pre-trial conferences. |
WINNFIELD CITY COURT | Tool: set trial dates upon receiving the requests. |
WINNSBORO CITY COURT | Tool: to allow flexibility in scheduling matters for hearing, the court used an open calendar in addition to regular court dates. |
ZACHARY CITY COURT | Tool: the court simply set dates as soon as possible. |
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| If yes, what tools did you use and how well did they work? | 27 courts (ALEXANDRIA CITY COURT, BAKER CITY COURT, BOSSIER CITY COURT, CROWLEY CITY COURT, DENHAM SPRINGS CITY COURT, HOUMA CITY COURT, JEANERETTE CITY COURT, JEFFERSON PARISH 1ST PARISH COURT, JEFFERSON PARISH 2ND PARISH COURT, JENNINGS CITY COURT, LAFAYETTE CITY COURT, LAKE CHARLES CITY COURT, MINDEN CITY COURT, MONROE CITY COURT, NEW ORLEANS 1ST CITY COURT, NEW ORLEANS 2ND CITY COURT, NEW ORLEANS MUNICIPAL AND TRAFFIC COURT, OAKDALE CITY COURT, PINEVILLE CITY COURT, RAYNE CITY COURT, RUSTON CITY COURT, SLIDELL CITY COURT, VIDALIA CITY COURT, VILLE PLATTE CITY COURT, WINNFIELD CITY COURT, WINNSBORO CITY COURT, ZACHARY CITY COURT) |
| No | 14 courts (ASCENSION PARISH COURT, BASTROP CITY COURT, BATON ROUGE CITY COURT, BREAUX BRIDGE CITY COURT, BUNKIE CITY COURT, HAMMOND CITY COURT, KAPLAN CITY COURT, LEESVILLE CITY COURT, MARKSVILLE CITY COURT, NATCHITOCHES CITY COURT, OPELOUSAS CITY COURT, PLAQUEMINE CITY COURT, SULPHUR CITY COURT, THIBODAUX CITY COURT) |
| Yes | 37 courts (ABBEVILLE CITY COURT, ALEXANDRIA CITY COURT, BAKER CITY COURT, BOGALUSA CITY COURT, BOSSIER CITY COURT, CROWLEY CITY COURT, DENHAM SPRINGS CITY COURT, EUNICE CITY COURT, FRANKLIN CITY COURT, HOUMA CITY COURT, JEANERETTE CITY COURT, JEFFERSON PARISH 1ST PARISH COURT, JEFFERSON PARISH 2ND PARISH COURT, JENNINGS CITY COURT, LAFAYETTE CITY COURT, LAKE CHARLES CITY COURT, MINDEN CITY COURT, MONROE CITY COURT, MORGAN CITY COURT, NEW IBERIA CITY COURT, NEW ORLEANS 1ST CITY COURT, NEW ORLEANS 2ND CITY COURT, NEW ORLEANS MUNICIPAL AND TRAFFIC COURT, OAKDALE CITY COURT, PINEVILLE CITY COURT, PORT ALLEN CITY COURT, RAYNE CITY COURT, RUSTON CITY COURT, SHREVEPORT CITY COURT, SLIDELL CITY COURT, SPRINGHILL CITY COURT, VIDALIA CITY COURT, VILLE PLATTE CITY COURT, WEST MONROE CITY COURT, WINNFIELD CITY COURT, WINNSBORO CITY COURT, ZACHARY CITY COURT) |
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