| Effective Date: | 1989; rescinded April 10, 1995 |
State: |
Alabama |
| Court Type: | Appellate |
| Implementing Authority: | Supreme Court Order |
| Status: | Voluntary |
| Time Standards: | The Court of Civil Appeals and the Court of Criminal Appeals: (filing of the notice of appeal to resolution) 75% within 290 days 95% within 365 days Supreme Court: (filing to resolution) 50% within 290 days 90% within 365 days |
| Alabama Standards Relating to Relay Reduction | |
| Order of the Supreme Court Adopting Appellate Time Standards | |
| Effective Date: | October 1, 1990; revised 1997 |
State: |
Alabama |
| Court Type: | Trial |
| Case Type: | Civil |
| Implementing Authority: | Supreme Court Order |
| Status: | Mandatory |
| Time Standards: | Circuit: (filing to disposition) 90% within 18 months 95% within 24 months 100% within 30 months District: (filing to disposition) 95% within 10 months 100% within 15 months Small Claims: (filing to disposition) 95% within 8 months 100% within 12 months |
| Effective Date: | October 1, 1990; revised 1997 |
State: |
Alabama |
| Court Type: | Trial |
| Case Type: | Criminal |
| Implementing Authority: | Supreme Court Order |
| Status: | Mandatory |
| Time Standards: | Circuit: Capital: (arrest to disposition) 90% within 9 months 100% within 12 months Felony: (filing to disposition) 90% within 9 months 100% within 12 months Other: (filing to disposition) 90% within 9 months 100% within 12 months District: Traffic and Misdemeanors: (filing to disposition) 95% within 4 months 100% within 6 months |
| Effective Date: | October 1, 1990; revised 1997 |
State: |
Alabama |
| Court Type: | Trial |
| Case Type: | Domestic |
| Implementing Authority: | Supreme Court Order |
| Status: | Mandatory |
| Time Standards: | General: (filing to disposition) 90% within 6 months 98% within 12 months 100% within 18 months |
| Effective Date: | October 1, 1990; revised 1997 |
State: |
Alabama |
| Court Type: | Trial |
| Case Type: | Juvenile |
| Implementing Authority: | Supreme Court Order |
| Status: | Mandatory |
| Time Standards: | General: (petition date to disposition) 80% within 4 months 100% within 9 months |
| Monitoring Information: | Alabama documents court performance relevant to time standards by producing computer-generated reports with information compiled at both local and statewide levels. The time standards themselves are public information; however, only the individual judge, his/her presiding judge, the chief justice, and the state court administrator receive performance information in the form of case management reports/summaries providing caseload statistics. The reports/summaries are reviewed monthly and semiannually. |
| Notes: | Time standards apply to all cases. However, no punitive action is taken against a judge if the standards are exceeded. Alabama considers the most useful measure of court timeliness to be % of cases resolved within a specified number of days or months (trial courts) and percentage of cases resolved within existing time standards (appellate courts). |