Title 51, Title 51: Courts

Sec. 51-199b. Uniform Certification of Questions of Law Act. (a) This section may be cited as the “Uniform Certification of Questions of Law Act”. (b) As used in this section: (1) “State” means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto R…

Sec. 51-200. Terms and special sessions. Terms of the Supreme Court shall be held at Hartford and the specific dates of such terms shall be posted on the Internet web site of the Judicial Branch. Special sessions may be held at any other time or place as fixed by rule of the judg…

Sec. 51-201. Chief clerk of the Supreme Court. The judges of the Supreme Court shall appoint a chief clerk of the Supreme Court who shall not be a chief clerk of any judicial district. The chief clerk of the Supreme Court shall also be the chief clerk of the Appellate Court. (194…

Sec. 51-202. Court docket. The chief clerk of the Supreme Court shall keep the docket of the Supreme Court. The chief clerk of the Appellate Court shall keep the docket of the Appellate Court. (1949 Rev., S. 7676; P.A. 78-280, S. 86, 127; P.A. 81-472, S. 150, 159; P.A. 82-248, S.…

Sec. 51-203. Assignment of cases. (a) Assignment of cases for hearing by the Supreme Court shall be made by the chief clerk of the Supreme Court, under the direction of the Chief Justice or an associate judge designated by the Chief Justice. (b) Assignments of cases for hearing b…

Sec. 51-204. Quorum; judges called in. Section 51-204 is repealed, effective October 1, 2010. (1949 Rev., S. 7678; P.A. 82-248, S. 106; P.A. 10-43, S. 43.)

Sec. 51-205. Judges released from judicial duties on Superior Court, exception. The judges of the Supreme Court shall be released from sitting on the Superior Court, except that the Chief Justice may assign any such judge to sit on the Superior Court whenever in his judgment the …

Sec. 51-206. Adjournment in absence of judges. Section 51-206 is repealed, effective October 1, 2010. (1949 Rev., S. 7680; P.A. 00-99, S. 106, 154; P.A. 01-195, S. 54, 181; P.A. 10-43, S. 43.)

Sec. 51-207. Composition of panel. Summoning of court members or other judges to constitute panel. (a) The Supreme Court shall sit in panels of five, six or seven judges, pursuant to rules adopted by said court. (b) Each party in any case before the Supreme Court has a right to b…

Sec. 51-208. Judgment by agreement of parties. When the parties in any action pending before the Supreme Court, or their attorneys, sign and file with the clerk an agreement as to the judgment which shall be rendered therein, the clerk may enter judgment in the action upon the wr…

Sec. 51-209. Majority of judges on panel to concur in decision. Procedure when court evenly divided. No ruling, judgment or decree of any court may be reversed, affirmed, sustained, modified or in any other manner affected by the Supreme Court or the Appellate Court unless a majo…

Sec. 51-210. Costs of preparation and transmission of records in appealed cases. Any expense necessarily incurred by the clerk of the Superior Court in preparing copies of the files and records for transmittal to the Supreme Court or Appellate Court in any case appealed or on a w…

Sec. 51-211. Notice of decisions. The chief clerk of the Supreme Court or of the Appellate Court shall transmit a notice of the decision upon a motion or of an order to the clerk of the court from which the action proceeded and give notice to all counsel of record. (1949 Rev., S.…