In re District Court Numbering System, Case Types, & Cover Sheets

Supreme Court of Oklahoma
In re District Court Numbering System, Case Types, & Cover Sheets, 271 P.3d 794 (Okla. 2009)
2009 OK 87; 2009 Okla. LEXIS 114; 2009 WL 4048348
Colbert, Edmondson, Hargrave, Kauger, Opala, Reif, Taylor, Voting, Watt, Winchester

In re District Court Numbering System, Case Types, & Cover Sheets

Opinion of the Court

Administrative Directive

T1 Five previous Administrative Directives have been issued by this court regarding a uniform numbering system, case types/prefixes and/or cover sheets for the district courts. Each of these directives (No. 68-1, 89-1, 89-7, 92-06 and 99-87) is amended as it relates to the subject matter of this new directive.

12 Effective January 1, 2010, all district courts shall adopt a uniform case numbering system. All cases shall bear a case prefix, then a hyphen and then all four digits of the calendar year, which shall be followed by a hyphen and the number of the case. Cases shall be consecutively numbered within a calendar year.

13 Beginning January 1, 2010, and on each January 1 thereafter, the four digits of the calendar year designation shall be changed and the consecutive case number shall begin again with number 1. Case numbers must be assigned by the District Court Clerks to ensure that the cases remain in sequence.

T4 Effective January 1, 2010, each court shall adopt and exclusively use the case types/prefixes set forth on attached Exhibit "A" which is incorporated herein by reference. If other case types/prefixes are needed in the future for the orderly filing of cases, the Administrative Director of the Courts may present recommended changes or new case types/prefixes to the Chief Justice for approval.

T5 Effective January 1, 2010, each district court shall adopt and use the attached civil and criminal cover sheets. These cover sheets shall accompany each party's initial filing in a case.

*795T6 The new cover sheets are not to be filed, nor made a part of the case. The clerk of the court shall destroy each cover sheet within thirty days.

T7 CONCUR: EDMONDSON, C.J., TAYLOR, V.C.J., WATT, WINCHESTER, COLBERT, REIF, JJ. 18 CONCURS IN PART; DISSENTS IN , PART: KAUGER, J. 19 NOT VOTING: HARGRAVE, OPALA, JJ.

Exhibit "A"

Index

I. Civil Proceedings

hol: . II. Criminal Proceedings

III. Family and Domestic Proceedings

IV. Juvenile Proceedings

V. Licenses

VI. Miscellaneous Filings

VIL Probate and Trust Proceedings

Civil Proceedings

Case Prefix Description

AO Civil Administrative

CJ Civil Cases in which the relief sought exceeds $10,000

CS Civil Cases seeking money damages in which the relief gigggwoes not exceed

CV Miscellaneous Civil Cases

GJ Grand Jury or Multicounty Grand Cases

|_ SC Small Claims Cases in which the monetary relief is less than $6,000

TL Tax Liens

Criminal Proceedings

Case Prefix Description

AM Anna McBride Act-Mental Health Court

CA Cost Administration

CF gigglérelginFelony gs

CM Criminal Misdemeanor Proceedings

CPC Criminal Probable Cause

DC Drug Court

DTR Tickets

MI Criminal Miscellaneous Proceedings

NF Criminal Proceedings-Not Filed

SW Search Warrants

TR Traffic Tickets

WL Wildlife

Family and Domestic Proceedings

Case Prefix Description

Artificial Insemination

FA Adoption Proceedings

FD Family and Domestic Proceedings

FI Income Assignment Proceedings

FMI Family and Domestic Miscellaneous Proceedings

FP Paternity Proceedings

FR Reciprocal Child Support Cases

Juvenile Proceedings

Case Prefix Description

JD Juvenile Deprived Proceedings

JDH Juvenile Deprived Show Cause Hearings

JDHT Juvenile Mental Health

JDL Juvenile Delinquency Proceedings

*796JDLH Juvenile Delinquency Show Cause Hearings

JMI Juvenile Miscellaneous

JS Juvenile in Need of Supervision Proceedings

JT Juvenile in Need of Treatment Proceedings

Licenses

Case Prefix Description

BL Bondsman License

BV Beverage License

CO Closing Out Sale

FS Foreign Process Server

MC Ministers Credentials

ML Marriage License

PP Passports

PH Pool Hall

PS Process Server

PSS Process Server/State-wide

TM Transient Merchants

License

Miscellaneous Filings

Case Prefix Description

CP Criminal Property Proceedings

MH Mental Health

MR Miscellaneous Receipts

MRC Miscellaneous Receipts-Criminal

MRCV Miscellaneous Receipts-Civil Cases

MRFD Miscellaneous Receipts-Family Domestic

MRPB Miscellaneous Receipts-Probate

MRSC Miscellaneous Receipts-Small Claims

SD Surface Damage

WH Writs of Habeas Corpus

PO Protective Orders

Probate and Trust Proceedings

Case Prefix Description

FB Full Blood Filings

PB Probate Proceedings

PC Conservatorship

PG Guardianships

PMI Probate Miscellaneous Proceedings

PT Trust Proceedings

WIL Filing of Wills

*797Exhibit B

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*798Exhibit B

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Re: DISTRICT COURT NUMBERING SYSTEM, CASE TYPES, AND COVER SHEETS
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