Local Rule LCrR 57.11: SUSPENSION OF NEW ASSIGNMENTS

LCrR 57.11 SUSPENSION OF NEW ASSIGNMENTS A judge shall be relieved by the Calendar and Case Management Committee from any new assignment of indictments and civil cases accompanied by motions for temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions or civil cases in which an intention to file a motion for a preliminary injunction is expressed, upon notification by the judge or the Chief Judge to the Committee that the judge: (1) has continued in a protracted trial or hearing for 10 consecutive trial days; (2) is confined to a hospital; (3) is confined at home due to illness for seven days; (4) has had a death in the judge's immediate family; or (5) is performing judicial duties out of this jurisdiction pursuant to assignment. New cases shall be assigned to the judge in accordance with normal procedures upon the conclusion of any such condition.

Whenever a judge begins what is expected to be an unusually protracted criminal trial (one lasting four weeks or more) he or she may refer to the Calendar and Case Management Committee for routine reassignment such other criminal cases assigned to such judge as the judge was unable to dispose of prior thereto and which are expected to require disposition pursuant to the Speedy Trial Act within the time period of the unusually protracted trial.