RE: CaseParticipantRoleCode

WD17 will be posted shortly which includes a new section 6.4 on Case Participants and Roles and a new CaseParticipantRoleCode.gc code list based on the attached worksheet that I adapted from the subcommittee’s proposal.

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Jim Cabral
502 509-4532

From: McMillan, Jim
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2017 8:57 AM
To: Graham, Gary; James E Cabral; legalxml-courtfiling@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: CaseParticipantRoleCode

I am not going to comment on Jim P’s last note as I think it is a separate discussion. CaseOtherParty handles things like Amicus parties that are “friends of the court” and may not necessarily be aligned with one party or another but who want to weigh in on the legal issues in the case. I was also thinking that it might be useful for CASA (court appointed special advocates) or even Conservators who again may or may not be aligned with a party but rather have their own relationship with the case? – Jim M

From: legalxml-courtfiling@lists.oasis-open.org [mailto:legalxml-courtfiling@lists.oasis-open.org] On Behalf Of Graham, Gary
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2017 6:35 PM
To: 'James E Cabral' <jec@mtgmc.com>; Graham, Gary <GGraham@courts.az.gov>; legalxml-courtfiling@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [legalxml-courtfiling] RE: CaseParticipantRoleCode

I believe all members of the subcommittee would recommend the ecf:CaseOtherParty option to be used when the litigant’s role in the case (e.g. plaintiff, crossdefendant, etc.) does not well fit any of the current three party elements. I do not think a party would need to have both, but I am not sure what you mean by “also map those litigants”.

So if the entity is a case party (e.g. litigant), and the elements j:CaseDefendantParty, j:CaseInitiatingParty, or j:CaseRespondentParty are not appropriate per the definitions for those elements, then ecf:CaseOtherParty would be used. This case party would not have both ecf:CaseOtherParty and j:CaseInitiatingParty (or j:CaseDefendantParty or j:CaseResondentParty) and would not also have CaseOtherEntity.

Jim or Barbara, if you think otherwise, please chime in.

Gary Graham

From: legalxml-courtfiling@lists.oasis-open.org [mailto:legalxml-courtfiling@lists.oasis-open.org] On Behalf Of James E Cabral
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2017 3:14 PM
To: Graham, Gary <GGraham@courts.az.gov>; legalxml-courtfiling@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [legalxml-courtfiling] RE: CaseParticipantRoleCode

Thanks to the subcommittee. After reviewing the draft, I think we can distill the entirety of it down to 3 things:

A rule in the specification that attorneys and judges MUST be represented as Persons while litigants and other participants MAY be represented as Persons, Organizations or Items.
A mapping in Genericode (or the specification) of the role elements contained in j:CaseAugmentation to allowable CaseParticipantRoleCodes.
A rule in the specification that CaseParticipantRoleCode SHOULD be provided whenever a generic participant role element (j:CaseJudge, j:CaseOfficial or j:CaseOtherEntity) is used.

See my attached spreadsheet which builds out the committee’s suggested role codes and maps them to each of the role elements currently in the specification. This looks very doable.

However, I have an important question for the subcommittee. Note that if we map “Other” participants to j:CaseOtherEntity, we do not currently have a role specific to litigants other than j:CaseDefendantParty, j:CaseInitiatingParty and j:CaseRespondentParty. Should we also map those litigants to j:CaseOtherEntity or should we create another role such as ecf:CaseOtherParty?

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Jim Cabral
502 509-4532

From: Graham, Gary
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2017 11:40 AM
To: legalxml-courtfiling@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [legalxml-courtfiling] CaseParticipantRoleCode

At the May 9, 2017 ECF TC conference call, a subcommittee was asked to establish a normative default value list for CaseParticipantRoleCode and CaseOfficialCode. This subcommittee, consisting of Jim Price, Barbara Holmes, and Gary Graham have completed this task. Attached you will find a spreadsheet containing the recommended code values and a cover-page document which provides additional explanatory information.

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