Summary
The Supreme Court of Oklahoma authorized the electronic case types and prefixes CJTD and CJAD for the Court on the Judiciary Trial and Appellate Divisions. The order provides that future filings will be entered electronically and explains the format and annual sequencing of case numbers, while noting that past filings will not be available electronically.
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Questions Presented
- Whether the Supreme Court of Oklahoma should authorize electronic case types and prefixes for the Court on the Judiciary's Trial and Appellate Divisions.
Holdings
- The Supreme Court of Oklahoma authorized the electronic case types and prefixes CJTD for the Court on the Judiciary, Trial Division, and CJAD for the Court on the Judiciary, Appellate Division.
- The authorized case types must use the applicable prefix followed by the four-digit calendar year and a consecutive case number, with numbering restarting at one each calendar year and assignments made by the Clerk of the Appellate Courts.
Key quotations
“In order to provide electronic access to the dockets of the Court on the Judiciary Trial and Appellate Divisions, the following electronic case types/prefixes are hereby authorized for use on the Oklahoma Supreme Court Network and the Oklahoma Case Information System:” (¶ 1)
“The above case types/prefixes shall be integrated as soon as practicable for use by the Court Clerk of the Appellate Courts.” (¶ 3)
Factual background
The dockets for the Court on the Judiciary's Trial and Appellate Divisions were publicly available but manually entered in docket books maintained by the Office of the Court Clerk of the Appellate Courts. The Supreme Court authorized electronic case types CJTD and CJAD so future filings could be entered electronically and made publicly available through the Oklahoma Supreme Court Network and Oklahoma Case Information System.
Procedural history
The Supreme Court of Oklahoma acted by order in conference to authorize electronic case types for future Court on the Judiciary filings. The order addresses the integration and numbering of those case types into the Oklahoma Supreme Court Network and Oklahoma Case Information System.