The California Court Case Management System (CCMS) is the

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management system intended for use by the several courts of the

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, which includes the Supreme Court, 6 Courts of Appeal, and 58 Superior Courts.

Fees

Pursuant to California Rule of Court 2.506 and Government Code Section 68150(h), courts may impose fees for the costs of providing access to its electronic records. Several superior courts do so, including Alameda, Los Angeles, Riverside, Sacramento, and San Diego, and the fees have been criticized by Thomas Peele as exorbitant and extraordinarily high, with the Alameda County Superior Court fees being the subject of a

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Implementation

Five Superior Courts—in Orange, Sacramento, San Diego, San Joaquin, and Ventura Counties—use CCMS version 3 to process civil cases. This represents approximately 25 percent of the civil case volume in California. Fresno is the only Superior Court still using version 2 of CCMS. In August 2013, the Judicial Council approved funding for a system that will replace CCMS version 2 in Fresno.

History

In 2002, the California Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) started the Second-Generation Electronic Filing Specification (2GEFS) project. After a $200,000 consultant's report declared the project ready for a final push, the

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scrapped the program in 2012 after $500 million in costs.

Technical

The 2GEFS Court Filing 2.0 specification was based on experiences with the

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Court Filing 1.0 (before it became OASIS Legal XML).

On 10 December 2012 it was announced that the San Luis Obispo County Superior Court would use the Odyssey® court case management system from

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References

External links

California Court Case Management System (CCMS)
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