| Arizona |
The Arizona Supreme Court keeps records of appellate court case conferences. Arizona has an automated process where a member of the court can type the results while the court is still in conference. The clerk of court then brings in the minutes, when the court has finished the agenda, for the members of the court to review.
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| Colorado |
The Colorado Court of Appeals does not keep records of case conferences. Conferences by panel members are not recorded.
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| Connecticut |
The Connecticut Supreme Court keeps a record of case conferences by a nonmember of the court on the conference agenda itself. The chief clerk is the "primary note taker" and the chief administrative officer serves as "backup." The chief justice also keeps track of items on the conference agenda. An original copy of the agenda is kept in the clerk’s office and the chief justice and chief administrator also keep copies. The Connecticut Appellate Court also keeps records of case conferences. The chief judge of the court presides over appellate court cases and keeps a record of the vote taken on each case at the conference. If the chief judge is unavailable to participate in the conference, the judge presiding on the appellate court panel keeps the record and submits it to the chief judge. The record of the vote is kept by the chief judge and is destroyed at the end of the year.
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| Florida |
The Florida Supreme Court keeps records of case conferences. One of the members of the court keeps the records on a computer file on a specially designed form called a conference agenda action. The clerk’s offices and the justices have access to the directory where this information is stored.
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| Idaho |
The Idaho Supreme Court does not keep records of case conferences. The supreme court conferences cases after argument, but no record is maintained. Once a month the court also conferences, and once the opinion is circulated and discussed a very brief notation is made as to whether to release the opinion or not.
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| Minnesota |
The Minnesota Supreme Court does keep records of case conferences. The justices keep their own notes.
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| Missouri |
The Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District keeps records of case conferences. Formal records of votes on cases are taken at conference. The clerk attends the conference and records the actions taken using a conference agenda prepared two days ahead of time. After the conference, the clerk and the chief judge’s judicial administrative assistant turn the conference agenda into conference minutes maintained by the court. The Missouri Court of Appeals for the Eastern District, keeps a record of case conferences. Judges make whatever notes they want about how each judge voted in individual docket books. No one is assigned to officially take minutes, nor are any other methods, electronic or otherwise, used to record case conferences. The Missouri Court of Appeals for the Southern District does not keep records of case conferences. The judges keep their own notes, and there is nothing formally done to memorialize a case conference.
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| Montana |
The Montana Supreme Court does not keep records of its case conferences. However, the chief justice keeps her own notes of votes taken on each case in conference, as do many of the other justices.
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| New York |
The New York Court of Appeals does not keep records of appellate court case conferences. Case conferences are held immediately after oral argument. The deputy clerk of the court and the chief court attorney record each judge’s vote or preliminary vote and the writing assignments. This record is handwritten. The deputy clerk maintains one master set, and the chief clerk maintains a copy. No conference information is entered into a database.
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| North Carolina |
The North Carolina Supreme Court keeps records of appellate court case conferences. The junior justice takes minutes of each of the conferences, keeping these minutes in notebooks in his office. Any actions taken that involve orders of any kind are kept in another folder in the clerk’s office. The minutes do not contain details about the discussions relative to an individual case—only that the cases were discussed "in conference" and detail the actions taken as a result of the discussions.
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| Northern Mariana Islands |
The CNMI does not keep any records on appellate court case conferences unless required to do so by the justices.
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| Ohio |
The Ohio Supreme Court keeps records of appellate court case conferences. The reporter of decisions, who sits in on each case conference, keeps a record of the votes of each justice. The Ohio Court of Appeals does not keep records of appellate court case conferences. The case conferences among the judges are for the purpose of preliminary votes. They are not formally reported or recorded.
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| Oklahoma |
The Oklahoma Supreme Court keeps records of appellate court case conferences. The court keeps its own minutes internally. The minutes are kept by the chief justice and the chief judge. The Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals keeps records of appellate court case conferences and its own minutes internally. Like the supreme court these are kept by the chief justice and the chief judge.
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| Rhode Island |
The Rhode Island Supreme Court does not keep records of appellate court case conferences. However, the chief justice keeps her own notes of votes taken on each case in conference, as may other justices.
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| South Carolina |
The South Carolina Supreme Court keeps records of appellate court case conferences. Justices maintain their own records of what was discussed.
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| South Dakota |
The South Dakota Supreme Court does not keep records of appellate court case conferences. Each justice has the option of taking notes for personal use, but these notes are not generally shared with other members of the court. The only "official" documentation from the conferences is either a written opinion of the court or an order that summarily affirms or reverses the decision.
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| Tennessee |
The Tennessee Supreme Court does not keep records of appellate court case conferences. Only the judges on the panel attend the conferences. The presiding judge may make an informal, private notation about case assignment or probable outcome.
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| Texas |
The Texas Supreme Court keeps records of appellate court case conferences. The administrative assistant records notes on each matter discussed in a conference. Copies of the conference notes are kept and entered in an automated case management system. None of these notes are made public. The Texas Court of Appeals does not keep records of appellate court case conferences. Only one intermediate appellate court has advised that the court clerk take notes on the conference proceedings and keep hard copies of the notes for a year or so.
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| Washington |
The Washington Supreme Court does keep records of appellate court case conferences. The records are kept by a junior member of the court.
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| Wisconsin |
The Wisconsin Supreme Court does not keep records of appellate court case conferences. A justice may take notes or minutes during the conferences to aid in the judicial review process, but the notes are for internal use, and no formal record is maintained. The Wisconsin Court of Appeals does not keep records of appellate court case conferences. Similar to the supreme court, a judge may take notes during the conferences to aid in the judicial review process, but no formal records are maintained.
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