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2001 SESSION

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09/01

HOUSE BILL 215

COMMITTEE: Judiciary

ANALYSIS

This bill requires the supreme court to make available to the public a list of the status of all cases pending before the supreme court.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

268:1 New Section; Supreme Court; Publication of Status of Cases. Amend RSA 490 by inserting after section 8 the following new section:

490:8-a Publication of the Status of Cases.

I. Beginning with notices of appeal filed on January 1, 2002, the supreme court shall make available to the public a record of cases pending before the court. The record shall be by calendar year, with the current year recording all cases filed with the court in that year. The record for prior years shall only document cases pending. Cases pending shall be those cases in which a decision has not been made as to accepting the notice of appeal or the accepted appeal has not been decided. The record shall be updated and printed quarterly and shall be available not later than 15 days after the end of each quarter. This report shall list the following data:

(a) Name and docket number.

(b) Date of acceptance or rejection of the notice of appeal and if the appeal was accepted or rejected.

(c) Date of oral argument.

(d) Date of decision.

II. At the end of each calendar year, all cases for which the notice of appeal was rejected and all cases decided shall be removed from the list.

268:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect July 1, 2002.

(Approved: July 16, 2001)

(Effective Date: July 1, 2002)