RE: [legalxml-courtfiling] Preliminary List of "Roles" in LegalProceedings

[John Messing <jmessing@law-on-line.com>]

Another way of looking at this may be that if there is a person object, a title is most clearly a property of the person object whereas the role is probably not.

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From: "Winters, Roger" <Roger.Winters@METROKC.GOV>
Date:  Thu, 21 Nov 2002 07:40:27 -0800

>As you have described it, then, does this follow?
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>ROLE = something one enters and leaves. We all play many roles--father,
>co-worker, civil servant, mechanic, mentor, penitent, child, caregiver, and
>on and on. In a case, one may be the plaintiff but, on the stand, also a
>witness; the next week, called for duty, a juror and, if a Judge, one owns
>the title throughout it all.
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>TITLE = something that sticks with one (unless revoked or modified). Being a
>plaintiff is not to acquire a title, nor witness, nor juror. A medical
>doctor who steps into (and out of) such roles would still be titled
>"Doctor."
>
>Roger Winters
>Electronic Court Records Manager
>King County
>Department of Judicial Administration
>516 Third Avenue, E-609 MS: KCC-JA-0609
>Seattle, Washington 98104
>V: (206) 296-7838 F: (206) 296-0906
>roger.winters@metrokc.gov
>
>
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>From: Lin, Meng-chun [mailto:Meng-chun.Lin@usdoj.gov] 
>Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 4:03 AM
>To: 'Winters, Roger'; 'Mohyeddin Abdulaziz'; 'Chambers, Rolly'
>Cc: legalxml-courtfiling@lists.oasis-open.org
>Subject: RE: [legalxml-courtfiling] Preliminary List of "Roles" in LegalPr
>oceedings
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>>From the programming point of view, the titles and roles are separate in the
>federal courts' case management database.  A more common case is a retired
>judge becomes an attorney and represents a client in a case.  The judge
>retains his/her title, but plays different role in different cases.  Also,
>under the party, there are different "party roles" in a case.
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