How the Plaquemines Parish Court Calendar Works
The 25th Judicial District Court calendar works at the division level. It loads through an embedded calendar service styled like Outlook, and its public ICS feed carries all-day events. That makes it handy for spotting a jury week, traffic court, arraignments, or a motions day. It is not a case docket ledger, though. It will not show your individual hearing notice or pull up filings.
What does the published Plaquemines Parish court schedule cover? Plenty. felony jury-trial weeks, civil jury and bench-trial weeks, traffic court, misdemeanors, juvenile court, felony motions and pretrials, child support, adult drug-court matters, civil motions and pretrials, family matters, and arraignments. The Twenty-Fifth Judicial District Court runs two divisions. They are Division A and Division B. A broad calendar category places your matter in the local rhythm. It cannot promise that one named case will be heard that day. For that, you need the case docket itself. Check the division. Then confirm the setting with the court. Treat the calendar as context and the docket as the record.
The official calendar interface organizes the full court schedule. You can view it by division and by event type for the Plaquemines Parish court schedule.
Division and event labels give context, not answers. A case setting should be confirmed from the docket, a signed order, a minute entry, or direct confirmation from the division.
Plaquemines Parish Court Schedule Feed
Think of the calendar as an Outlook and ICS schedule layer. It is not a public case-search portal. The feed gives each event a summary label. It also lists start and end dates, public class, confirmed status, timestamp, and category. No case number, case style, party, attorney, courtroom, or judge field appears in that structure. So a name or case-number search cannot be run there. The calendar alone will not do it. Labels such as DIV B - MAGISTRATES, DIV B-ARRAIGNMENTS, and DIV B-MISDEMEANOR TRIALS describe court operations. They are not part of a published Plaquemines Parish case-code system. A Magistrate event marks a magistrate-court category. Under local rules, magistrate court alternates monthly between the two divisions.
- Arraignment
- A criminal appearance where the charge is addressed and a plea is entered or requested.
- Pretrial
- A case-management setting before trial, often used to address motions, readiness, or later dates.
- Setting
- A date placed on the court's schedule for a hearing, conference, motion, or trial.
Plaquemines Parish Court Date Lookups
Pull the case number and division first. Look at your citation, summons, prior order, minute entry, or clerk correspondence. Then scan the public calendar for the likely division and category. For civil or criminal matters, the clerk's Cott service opens the docket history. You need the required account access. Guest access is free but covers indices only. It does not include civil or criminal docket information or images.
- Keep the case number, division, and latest notice together before checking a schedule.
- Use the public calendar's month navigation to identify the relevant division or setting category.
- Compare that context with the newest docket, minute, or order entry available through the clerk's record route.
- Call the clerk's civil department for civil, family, or probate records, or the criminal department for criminal and traffic court records when the date remains uncertain.
- For a sheriff-issued traffic citation, use the citation and the Plaquemines Parish Sheriff's Office route to confirm the individual matter.
Phones work too. The clerk lists a general route at (504) 934-6610. Division A and Division B publish (504) 934-6715 and (504) 934-6730 on their public pages. For civil matters in Division B, a civil-minute-clerk help line sits at (504) 934-6733. A lawyer of record can verify the current setting. The court posts no official daily docket PDF. The clerk and the divisions remain the confirmation routes that count.
Plaquemines Parish Court Schedule Types
Calendar labels that look alike can mean very different work. A jury week reserves time for trials. A felony pretrial is case management. Traffic court may involve a court record. It may also involve a separate sheriff citation or payment record. Juvenile matters show up only as a subject category. Their records are confidentiality-sensitive. Read a label as the type of court business, never as a case result.
| Public schedule label | What it identifies | What it does not establish |
|---|---|---|
| Felony jury trial week | Division time reserved for felony trials | That a particular case is called or begins that day |
| Civil jury or bench-trial week | Civil trial calendar period | Every case's individual trial time |
| Traffic court | Traffic matters on the 25th JDC schedule | The payment status of a sheriff-issued citation |
| Felony motions or pretrials | Criminal motion and case-management work | The text or outcome of a motion |
| Family or juvenile court | Subject-matter schedule category | Public access to protected case details |
For the court record behind a schedule entry, use the clerk's docket and copy routes. The public event label is not the record itself.
Court Settings: What Each Field Means
A calendar event carries less detail than a single court setting. Read it in this order. Start with the case or docket number. Next come the division, the latest date, and the setting type. Finish with the newest minute entry or signed order. The feed shows an event summary and dates. It shows no case style, attorney, courtroom, or judge fields. Do not fill those gaps by guesswork.
| Event summary | A division-level label such as magistrates, arraignments, or misdemeanor trials. |
|---|---|
| Start and end date | The public calendar date range, often presented as an all-day event. |
| Division | The A or B assignment when identified by the calendar, docket ledger, record jacket, or clerk. |
| Setting type | The court work category, such as trial week, motion, pretrial, traffic, or arraignment. |
| Newest minute or order | The authoritative case-specific source for a current setting when it conflicts with an earlier entry. |
Note: An all-day calendar display is not an individual courtroom arrival time without direct confirmation.
Plaquemines Parish Court Closure Notices
Court holidays and operational notices can change your setting. The 25th JDC calendar marks local closures too, not just the standard ones. Expect entries for Lundi Gras, Mardi Gras, All Saints Day, and General Election Day. The governor can declare closures as well. The clerk's holiday schedule gives a second official reference. Jury and calendar updates also run through the court's news channel. In August 2026 it posted jury notices saying that settled matters required no attendance. Before any hearing, glance at both.
The 25th JDC news notices post jury updates and closure announcements for the Plaquemines Parish court schedule.
A news notice can change attendance instructions for the public. It still does not replace a current case order, a docket ledger entry, or confirmation from the division.
When a Court Date Moves
Court dates in Plaquemines Parish shift for ordinary reasons. A continuance is a postponement the court approves; a reset simply swaps an old date for a new one. Neither one closes a case. Under the 25th JDC local rules, a continuance motion in a criminal matter must be in writing, give the reason, and arrive no later than one week before the fixed hearing. Arraignment is where criminal motion and pretrial dates get set. Felony trials are set later, at the pretrial conference.
Civil cases follow their own mechanics. Once a contested matter is trial-ready, the clerk sets up a telephone conference, and a pretrial order may fix the trial date along with discovery and motion deadlines. Jury work carries extra rules. One of them sets a 30-day notice point for cancelling without owing jury costs. A calendar event can trail behind the case record. Always let the newest signed order or minute entry settle the question of the real date.
Confirm the later record. An earlier calendar date can remain useful context after a setting moves, but it is not proof that the case still has that date.
Plaquemines Parish Court Schedule Forms
Paperwork and scheduling are separate things at this court. The forms area gathers transcript-request links, interpreter materials, protective-order information, court policies, and guidance on presenting evidence. Transcript requests go to the court reporter rather than a calendar entry. The local criminal rule requires a written request. A transcript may be unavailable. If a continuance is sought for that reason, a timely request copy must ride along with that motion. The 25th JDC orders and forms page is the official spot where Plaquemines Parish court schedule paperwork lives.
The forms collection serves procedure. The division-level calendar remains the public source for Plaquemines Parish schedule context.
Plaquemines Parish Court Schedule Confirmation
Suppose a broad calendar event and a case notice disagree. Then the division holding the case and its record custodian control. The Twenty-Fifth Judicial District Court sits at the Pointe a la Hache courthouse. The Plaquemines Parish Clerk of Court keeps its records and administrative counter at the Belle Chasse annex. Those two doors close at different times. The courthouse building publishes 4:00 p.m. The annex closes at 4:30 p.m. Call ahead so the trip lands at the right counter.
Ordinary civil, criminal, traffic, marriage, mortgage, and conveyance records may be examined without appointment during business hours, per the clerk. No daily docket sheet is promised online, and there is no self-service terminal. Need a true schedule confirmation? Ask for the latest docket entry, minute entry, or order tied to the case. A calendar label alone cannot supply that record.
Missed Settings and What Comes Next
Missed a setting in Plaquemines Parish? Act through the case's actual court channel right away. Pull the newest notice, signed order, and any docket history. Then reach the attorney of record or the proper clerk or division. The 25th JDC court contact page confirms the courthouse location. No single parish rule applies one consequence to every kind of missed setting. A civil hearing is one thing. A criminal arraignment is another. Traffic appearance, juvenile matter, and jury instruction each carry different rules and deadlines.
Sheriff-issued traffic tickets complicate things. The sheriff's citation record and the nCourt payment route can sit apart from the clerk's court-side docket. Juvenile or sealed matters raise another caution. A missing online entry does not mean no court action exists. The clerk can explain the authorized records route. Only the court or counsel can say what a missed appearance legally means.
Missed a setting? Promptly verify the current case status with the court, clerk, division, or attorney because a missed court date can have case-specific consequences.