County Court

DELAY PREVENTION ORDER OF THE PRESIDING JUDGE:

The Denver County Court (Court) is conducting a judicial review of County Court civil cases that meet the following criteria:

1) The cases are not presently set for trial and;

2) The cases arre more than three-hundred-sixty-five (365) days old. 

The purpose of this review is to determine whether those actions are being diligently prosecuted.  All interested parties, including but not limited to, pro se plaintiffs and attorneys for plaintiffs are ordered to review the status of any matter(s) not set for trial which was filed more than three-hundred-sixty-five (365) days ago; where you were/are a party or Counsel in an action(s).  You are further directed to file with the Court, within sixty (60) days, a Response to Show Cause, listing your case(s) by case number and explaining why that case(s) should not be dismissed for failure to prosecute.

Noncompliance with this Order constitutes a failure to diligently prosecute the action(s), and is grounds to, and will result in, the dismissal of the action(s) without prejudice through an entry of dismissal by Minute Order in the Registry of Actions without notice to counsel/party.  See Rule 34(b)(2).

Dismissal of an action(s) by the terms of this Order and entry of that dismissal into the Registry of Actions is a Final Judgment and that action(s) and its file(s) will be physically purged.  Actions dismissed by this Order will not be subject to reinstatement as an active case unless relief from this Order is permitted by and in accordance with the Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure. 

If relief is granted and the case is reinstated, the burden to provide the court with a complete replication of the file is upon the proponent of the reinstatement.

SO ORDERED 4/20/11

FOR THE COURT

 /signed/