Judicial technology committee OKs expedited addition of summary-judgment filing types and targets e-service problems

The Judicial Council’s technology committee moved on Wednesday to revise statewide technology standards to add specific filing types for motions for summary judgment and related responses, and to press counties and vendors to improve electronic service and public-access integration.

Committee members, led by the chair (speaker 8), agreed to send an amended technology-standards submission (10.1, or a successor version) recommending that case-management systems include a filing choice for “motion for summary judgment” and the companion filing types — response and reply — so automated time clocks and reporting can trigger correctly. The motion to forward the update was made by an attendee (speaker 9) and received general agreement from the group during the meeting.

Why this matters: recent statutory changes created new automatic deadlines tied to summary-judgment filings, and committee members said many county case-management systems and e-filing menus do not currently flag those filings in ways that let clerks or the system start required time clocks or produce consistent statewide reports. Bob (speaker 5), chairing the standards…