SUPREME
JUDICIAL COURT AND APPEALS COURT CASE DOCKET
AND CALENDAR INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON COURTS' WEBSITE
Boston
— For the first time, case docket and calendar information
for the Massachusetts appellate courts is electronically available
to the public on the Web. This information can now be accessed
directly at www.ma-appellatecourts.org or via links on the
home pages of the Supreme Judicial Court and the Appeals Court
on the Massachusetts court system website at www.mass.gov/courts.
Information is posted daily in an effort to provide attorneys,
litigants, and the public with easy access to up-to-date case
docket and calendar information of appellate court cases.
“Access
to justice includes providing individuals with an expeditious,
convenient manner to obtain case information. Repeated trips
to the courthouse or telephone calls to a clerk’s office
are no longer required to obtain appellate case information,
which is now readily available to those with web access by
clicking onto the courts’ website,” said Supreme
Judicial Court Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall. “It
is one way we are striving to make the courts easily accessible
to all.”
Cases scheduled for oral argument for both
the Supreme Judicial Court and the Appeals Court are listed
on the website, as well as case docketing information, which
includes the status of a case. By entering the attorneys’
names, parties to the case, court, judge, or docket number
on cases entered from January 1, 1992, in the Supreme Judicial
Court and from January 1, 1988, in the Appeals Court, an individual
can easily obtain the public case information.
In keeping
with the SJC Policy Concerning Publication of Court Case Information
on the Web, promulgated in June 2003, the website does not
furnish an individual’s address, telephone number, social
security number, or date of birth, or information which directly
identifies parties to an impounded or sealed case, or a case
made non-public by statute or court rule
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