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Changes To Maine's Court Record Access Fees

July 10, 2014 posted by Steve Brownstein

Earlier, Maine made statutory changes to the fee structure for court record searching.  Effective June 1, the fee for a court-searched record is $20.00 per name or per alias and the first search is no longer free. Prior to June 1, the fee was $15.00 and first search free. As part of the fee, all courts include a search of both the civil and criminal docket.

The changes are a result of a recent Administrative Order (JB-05-26) issued by the State Judiciary. See www.courts.maine.gov/fees_forms/fees.html.
 
Recent Changes to County Assignments in Federal Court  Districts 
 
Depending on how many satellite court locations you count, there are over 480 U.S. District and Federal Courts.  Generally, these courts are organized into Districts and then n more populous states further organized into Divisions. Districts and Division are assigned counties.  There have been several recent changes in county assignments.

Effective August 1, 2014, Volusia County moves from the Jacksonville Division to the Orlando Division in the Middle District of Florida Bankruptcy Court. This revision (Local Rule 1071-) was approved by the Judges in the Middle District.

Earlier this year, the Divisions in the Southern District of the Mississippi U.S. District Court were realigned by federal legislation (HR 2871). This law realigned this judicial District from five Divisions to four Divisions and designated new county assignments. The text of the bill with the county assignments may be viewed at www.mssd.uscourts.gov/sites/mssd/files/attorney_notice.pdf.

Assignments can be confusing, especially when a Division has multiple offices. For example, the Western District of the Michigan U.S. District Court has 34 counties assigned to Southern Division and 15 counties assigned to the Northern Division. The Southern Division has a full services court in three locations - Lansing, Kalamazoo, and Grand Rapids. Which court location to be assigned a case is based on a random assignment to a judge, and not based on a strict county assignment within these three locations. So a case with a party having a residence or business location in perhaps Lansing could be assigned to the Court in Grand Rapids.

[If interested, BRB Publications provides a county-to-federal court table for all Bankruptcy and District Courts, for a nominal fee. Email brb@brbpublications.com.]

a BRB Public Record Update