Trial courts in 63 of Louisiana's 64 parishes have some form of automated case management in place. The Judicial Administrator’s Office of the Louisiana Supreme Court collects criminal & traffic information from the trial courts. Louisiana does not have a unified court system, so the Judicial Administrator’s Office is not aware to what extent lower courts track other data, including the number and status of mass tort cases.
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Article 592 of the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure sets out the certification procedure and other requirements for class actions.
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Interlocutory orders of the trial court and court of intermediate appeals may be reviewed in the supreme court by filing a petition for writ.
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Louisiana Supreme Court does occasionally assign ad hoc judges to assist individual trial courts with complex cases on an as-needed basis.
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In the mid-1990’s, the Louisiana Supreme Court formed the Committee on Complex Litigation, which produced the “Complex Litigation Bench Book for Judges.”
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According to the state’s CMIS (Case Management Information Systems) department, the district courts' systems are really just docketing systems with no real case management abilities to classify cases by type. Louisiana does not have a unified court system, and thus the Judicial Administrator’s Office is not aware to what extent lower courts track & manage cases.
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The state Supreme Court is investigating implementation of e-filing, as are the appellate courts. At the present time, the only Louisiana trial court using e-filing is the 24th JDC in Jefferson Parish, which uses e-filing for civil matters only.
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