FAYETTE COUNTY Local Rule 201; No. 2605 of 2011 GD [41 Pa.B. 6670]
[Saturday, December 10, 2011]Order And Now, this 18th day of November, 2011, pursuant to Pennsylvania Rule of Civil Procedure 239, it is Hereby Ordered and Decreed that Fayette County Local Rule of Civil Procedure 201 is hereby amended to read as follows.
The Prothonotary is directed as follows:
(1) One certified copy of the Local Rule shall be filed with the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts.
(2) Two certified copies and diskette of the Local Rule shall be distributed to the Legislative Reference Bureau for publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.
(3) One certified copy of the Local Rule shall be sent to the State Civil Procedural Rules Committee.
(4) One certified copy shall be sent to the Fayette County Law Library and to the Editor of the Fayette Legal Journal.
The amendment of the previously listed rule shall become effective thirty (30) days after publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.
By the Court
GERALD R. SOLOMON,
President JudgeRule 201. Case Assignment.
(a) All civil cases, not including family court matters, filed in the Prothonotary's Office shall be assigned to a Judge as set forth in FCR 201.1. The Prothonotary shall notify the assigned Judge of the assignment upon the filing of the initial responsive pleading of any defendant. The assigned Judge's name shall be placed on all subsequent pleadings by counsel under the number and term of the case. The party's or counsel's facsimile number and email address, along with the party's or counsel's address, phone number and counsel's Supreme Court identification number, shall be listed on all civil case pleadings.
(b) If pending cases which arise from the same transaction or occurrence are assigned to different Judges, the Court, on its own motion or the motion of any party, may order the cases consolidated before the Judge assigned to the first case filed.
[Pa.B. Doc. No. 11-2103. Filed for public inspection December 9, 2011, 9:00 a.m.]
