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• District Court Standing Orders
  • Standing Order 1-22: Scheduling G.L. c. 123 hearings 
  • Standing Order 1-21: Inventory and prioritization of jury trial-ready criminal … 
  • Standing Order 11-20: Jury trials under the exigent circumstances created by th… 
  • Standing Order 10-20: Court operations for the adjudication of summary process … 
  • Standing Order 4-20: Protocol Governing Requests for Release from Detention, an… 
  • 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 Worceste… 
  • Standing Order 1-11: Limited Assistance Representation and substitute counsel 
  • Standing Order 1-08: Petitions for judicial review of license suspension for ch… 
  • 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 … 
  • 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 (purs… 
  • Standing Order 2-83: Calendaring of civil cases 
  • Standing Order 1-83: Civil pretrial procedure 
• District Court Joint Standing Orders
  • Joint Standing Order 1-23: Electronic filing of summary process cases 
  • Joint Standing Order 2-22: Court operational order 
  • 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 i… 
  • 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