- Cases are consolidated to save time and money in court proceedings
- Consolidated cases are scheduled together for court trials
- Petitioner or practitioner needs to submit a document to the court in order to be considered for consolidating cases
- A judge needs to approve and submit an order before cases can become consolidated
- A Docket Clerk can consolidate cases
- Cases can only be consolidated if:
Cases status:
- Must be at least at issue
- Cannot be closed or on appeal
- Case Procedure must be the same
- Place of trial must be the same
- Judge must be the same
To consolidate cases
- Docket clerk will go to a case to be consolidated and navigate to the case information tab on the consolidated cases tab click on add cases
- Search for a case to consolidate
Once cases have been consolidated:
- A yellow lock double paper icon will display in the case header
- The consolidated cases tile on case information tab will display all of the cases consolidated (viewable to internal court users only)
- Consolidated cases are listed in ascending order with the lowest docket number the lead case
- Petitioner/Practitioner View of Consolidated Cases
On a petitioner/practitioner dashboard users will see:
- Consolidated cases on the open/closed case tabs display a yellow lock double paper icon next to the lead case
- The lead case has the lowest docket number. The rest of the cases will display indented below the lead case in ascending order
- Consolidated cases will display links if the user is a party to that case