This request was part of a series of recommendation adopted at the August 18th, 2010 meeting of the JISC. As such, this request will proceed to the analysis stage.

When a search is performed on the website, only the original civil or criminal case should be displayed, with a hyperlink from that case to the judgment case and to the case docket, if available. An explanation should also appear on the screen stating that even though the judgment has a separate identifying case number, it is not a separate or different case from the criminal or civil proceedings.

There would be less confusion among the users of the public case search functionality over the fact that a single civil or criminal case appears with a case type 9, but there was only one original case.

The solution that the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) proposes to alleviate the confusion caused by judgments displaying as separate case numbers on the public case search website, is that on the public case search website, SCOMIS judgment cases will no longer appear as separate case numbers. Instead of a judgment showing as a separate case number, on the search results page of the website when a case is listed that has a judgment, a “Judgment link” will be added under the case number for the associated judgment case.

When the user clicks on the “Judgment link”, the website will display the Judgment case summary. The Judgment case summary will also include the originating case number in the case information.

The analysis of this request was reviewed to ensure it complied with the Public Case Search Committee's intent. It does meet the intent and will now proceed to the Superior Court CLUG for prioritization.

This project was authorized by Vonnie Diseth in October, 2010.

This project was scheduled to begin in October, 2010.

This project is currently scheduled to conclude on Mar 16, 2011.

This enhancement implemented on March 18th, 2011.