{"id":"ME-072","kind":"order","level":"court","jurisdiction":"Maine","state":"ME","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Maine Supreme Judicial Court","authority":"Superintendence of the courts","instrument":"PMO-SJC-12","title":"Order Creating a Pilot Project for Stand-Alone Small Claims Mediation","dateIssued":"2021-03-15","effective":"2021-03-15 (revised May 6, 2021)","end":"Aug. 31, 2021 or amendment","startDate":"2021-03-15","endDate":"2021-08-31","quarters":["2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["CRT"],"addressees":["small claims litigants (Portland District Court)"],"clause":"The Plan established that Small Claims matters will not be scheduled or heard in court before an undetermined date in 2021. To address the increasing number of Small Claims cases pending statewide, parties to certain Small Claims cases shall have an opportunity to mediate their matters before the District Court resumes scheduling and hearing Small Claims cases.... Small Claims Mediation through August 31, 2021","enforcement":"Court order","functions":["CT collections (small claims suspended into 2021)","SV"],"notes":"Official recital that small claims were not heard from March 2020 into 2021; pilot ran into Q3 2021.","sourceUrl":"https://www.courts.maine.gov/covid19/pmo-sjc-12.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":273575,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"ME","url":"/library/ME-072","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/ME-072","citation":"Maine Supreme Judicial Court, PMO-SJC-12 (Mar. 15, 2021) (Ex. ME-072)","stateName":"Maine","related":["ME-071","ME-074"]}