Sec. 51-215a. (Formerly Sec. 51-21). Publication of decisions of the Superior Court and the Appellate Court.
Sec. 51-215a. (Formerly Sec. 51-21). Publication of decisions of the Superior
Court and the Appellate Court. (a) The clerks of the Superior Court shall file with
the Reporter of Judicial Decisions copies of memoranda of decisions in Superior Court
cases. The reporter shall select therefrom for publication such decisions as he deems
will be useful as precedents or will serve the public interest and shall prepare them for
publication and index them in substantial conformity with the manner in which decisions
of the Supreme Court are prepared and indexed. The decisions selected shall be published by the Commission on Official Legal Publications in the Connecticut Law Journal
and in such bound volumes as the Reporter of Judicial Decisions deems necessary.
(b) The clerk of the Appellate Court shall file with the Reporter of Judicial Decisions
copies of memoranda of decisions in Appellate Court cases. The reporter shall prepare
all of the decisions for publication and index them in substantial conformity with the
manner in which decisions of the Supreme Court are prepared and indexed. The decisions shall be published by the Commission on Official Legal Publications in the Connecticut Law Journal and in bound volumes.
(1949 Rev., S. 1643; 1957, P.A. 176, S. 11; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 75; 1963, P.A. 288, S. 1; 1971, P.A. 544; P.A. 73-541,
S. 4, 8; P.A. 74-183, S. 17, 291; P.A. 76-436, S. 50, 681; P.A. 82-248, S. 115; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-29, S. 61, 82.)
History: 1959 act included circuit court decisions; 1963 act stipulated superior and common pleas court decisions only
be published in the Connecticut Supplement; 1971 act added reference to juvenile court clerks and deleted provision which
specified that filing memoranda of decisions is subject to rules adopted by the judges of the applicable courts; P.A. 73-541 replaced requirement that decisions of superior court and court of common pleas be published in Connecticut Supplement with general requirement that decisions be published in "such bound volumes as the reporter of judicial decisions
deems necessary"; P.A. 74-183 removed circuit court clerks from purview of section, effective December 31, 1974; P.A.
76-436 removed juvenile court and court of common pleas clerks from purview of section, effective July 1, 1978; P.A.
82-248 reworded section, but made no substantive change; Sec. 51-21 transferred to Sec. 51-215a in 1983; June Sp. Sess.
P.A. 83-29 added Subsec. (b) re duties of clerk of appellate court, reporter of judicial decisions and commission on official
legal publications re decisions in appellate court cases.
See Sec. 51-196 re review of decisions.
Subsec. (b):
Cited. 41 CA 89.