| Organization: | Trial Court Law Libraries District Court |
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| Date published: |
December 1, 1983
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| Last updated: |
May 15, 2026
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Overview
Find all the Massachusetts standing orders and joint standing orders of the District Court.
Table of Contents
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- Standing Order 1-25: Small claims pro bono lawyer program
- Standing Order 1-24: Consumer debt pro bono lawyer program
- Standing Order 1-21: Inventory and prioritization of jury trial-ready criminal cases
- Standing Order 11-20: Jury trials under the exigent circumstances created by the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic
- Standing Order 10-20: Court operations for the adjudication of summary process cases
- Standing Order 4-20: Protocol Governing Requests for Release from Detention, and Requests to Revise or Revoke or to Stay Sentence, based on Coronavirus (COVID-19) Risks
- Standing Order 1-18: Voir Dire Protocol
- Standing Order 1-16: Norfolk County Pilot Program for civil money damage actions
- Standing Order 4-15: Conditions of release at a probation detention hearing
- Standing Order 3-15: Electronic filing pilot project applicable to the Worcester District Court
- Standing Order 1-11: Limited Assistance Representation and substitute counsel
- Standing Order 1-08: Petitions for judicial review of license suspension for chemical test refusal
- Standing Order 4-04: Performance goals for criminal case management
- Standing Order 1-92: Case management and procedures
- Standing Order 2-90: Scheduling, continuance and administrative policies
- Standing Order 1-90: Scheduling of civil motions
- Standing Order 2-88: Caseflow management of juvenile cases
- Standing Order 2-85: Civil pretrial procedure
- Standing Order 1-85: Consolidation of related civil cases pending in more than one division (pursuant to G.L. C. 223 § 2A)
- Standing Order 2-84: Continuances
- Standing Order 1-84: Appearances
- Standing Order 7-83: Pretrial conference and continuance policies
- Standing Order 6-83: Scheduling, continuance and administrative policies
- Standing Order 5-83: Case management procedures in criminal cases
- Standing Order 4-83: Summonsing breathalyzer operators
- Standing Order 3-83: Petitions for review in Cambridge rent control cases (pursuant to St. 1976, C. 36, §10)
- Standing Order 2-83: Calendaring of civil cases
- Standing Order 1-83: Civil pretrial procedure
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- Joint Standing Order 1-26: Order on remote court hearings
- Joint Standing Order 1-23: Electronic filing of summary process cases
- Joint Standing Order 3-15: Notice and docketing of impounded materials
- Joint Standing Order 2-15: Suspended
- Joint Standing Order 1-15: Provision of respondents' non-clinical identifying information in commitment proceedings under G. L. c. 123, §§ 7, 8, and 12(e), or G. L. c. 123, § 35
- Joint Standing Order 3-04: Time standards for criminal cases
- Joint Standing Order 2-04: Time standards for civil cases
- Joint Standing Order 1-04: Civil case management
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