If an action you take causes a docket, event,
disposition, or sentence code to be changed, deleted, or added to a case,
it may result in case status being changed. If case status is changed,
case aging and/or disposition may be affected.Case Status Overview
The Case Status feature allows your jurisdiction to record and maintain a case status history. The person setting up your system can define codes for manually updating case status. In addition, that person can set up a rule associating a case status code with one or more docket, event, disposition, and sentence codes for automatic updating. Check with your supervisor to determine how your jurisdiction uses the Case Status feature.
The Case Status feature also allows your jurisdiction to customize the way a case's age is calculated. Rather than calculate age only from the time a case is filed until the time it is disposed, a court can choose not to count blocks of time when a case is out of a court's control. To accomplish this, the person setting up your system adds an indicator to the case status code to determine if case aging should start, stop, reset, or continue as is when a given action occurs on a case.
The person setting up your system must also assign a disposition indicator to each case status code to indicate whether a case status code is associated with full disposition, partial disposition, or no disposition of the case.
If an action you take causes a docket, event,
disposition, or sentence code to be changed, deleted, or added to a case,
it may result in case status being changed. If case status is changed,
case aging and/or disposition may be affected.
How the case status feature works
The person setting up your system creates case status codes on the Case Status Code Rule form (CTRCSCR) and assigns them an aging indicator and a disposition indicator.
If your jurisdiction wants automatic case status updating, the person setting up your system associates the case status codes with one or more docket, event (both non-paper and paper), disposition, and sentence codes on the Case Status Rule form (CTRCSTS), and enters a date range to indicate the period during which the rule is in effect.
If your jurisdiction chooses not to use the automatic update feature, the person setting up your system can define status codes on the Case Status Code Rule form (CTRCSCR), but not associate those codes with rules on the Case Status Rule form (CTRCSTS). With this type of setup, you can manually update a case's status on the Case Status Maintenance form (CDACSTS).