{"id":4011,"date":"2016-07-17T10:03:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T14:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4011"},"modified":"2016-07-17T10:08:47","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T14:08:47","slug":"on-line-publication-of-local-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4011","title":{"rendered":"On-Line Publication of Local Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a brief, one-sentence order, the Supreme Court has directed all judicial districts to &#8220;establish and transmit to the Rules Committees (rulescommittees@pacourts.us) the address of a free and publically [sic] accessible website of the court or county in which the court has jurisdiction where all local rules are to be published.&#8221; <em>Order for Establishment of Local Rules Website,<\/em> No. 464 Judicial Administration Doc. (6\/28\/2016), 46 Pa.B. 3814 (7\/16\/2016).<\/p>\n<p>This may be a consequence of <a href=\"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=3320\">one of the comments that I submitted<\/a> (or others submitted) to the Rules Committee on proposed rules for the on-line publication of local rules.\u00a0 In <em>Proposed Amendment of Pa.R.Crim.P. 105, Pa.Rs.J.C.P. 121 and 1121 and Pa.R.C.P. No. 239 with Rescission of Pa.R.C.P. No. 239.8,<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pabulletin.com\/secure\/data\/vol45\/45-35\/1572.html\">45 Pa.B. 5384<\/a> (8\/29\/2015), new rules were proposed that would require each court or county to maintain a copy of local rules on a website freely accessible to the public.\u00a0 In comments, I pointed out that many counties are now publishing local rules through their websites, but that finding the rules is often not easy.\u00a0 I therefore suggested that, &#8220;As a convenience for possible compliance checking, as well as a service to the public, each court should be required to provide the AOPC [Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts] with the URL (or URLs) for the consolidation of its local rules, or the webpage(s) on which orders and consolidations can be found, and the AOPC should publish an on-line index of links to those URLs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This new order would be the logical first step in creating such an an on-line index to local rules.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a brief, one-sentence order, the Supreme Court has directed all judicial districts to &#8220;establish and transmit to the Rules Committees (rulescommittees@pacourts.us) the address of a free and publically [sic] accessible website of the court or county in which the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4011\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,36],"tags":[530],"class_list":["post-4011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-items","category-regulations","tag-local-rules","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4011"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4015,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions\/4015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}