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LaSalle Parish Court Docket Basics

A docket is a court's schedule or chronological case activity list. In LaSalle Parish, the term can mean a posted hearing calendar for the 28th Judicial District Court, a minute-entry history inside a case file, a JP or municipal setting, or a federal docket outside the parish system. The 28th JDC calendar is the main local web calendar found in official sources, while full pleadings and certified copies remain Clerk of Court matters.

A docket is not the whole record. It may show a setting, hearing type, case reference, or event, while the full case file may hold petitions, bills of information, motions, exhibits, orders, judgments, pleas, dispositions, and sentence documents. That distinction matters in LaSalle Parish because the public calendar can help someone find a date, but a person who needs filings or certified proof must go to the Clerk or the court that keeps the file.

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The official 28th JDC Court Calendar is the primary online schedule channel found for LaSalle Parish District Court. The calendar page includes a default-time notice, weekly docket area, and a strong warning that docket information, court dates, and schedules may change without notification. It also says information received directly from the judge's office or the Clerk should be considered official notice of the docket.

The manifest includes an official image for the 28th JDC calendar page.

The image supports the calendar access path, but the court's own warning means parties should not rely on a web posting alone.

1. Open the 28th JDC calendar page and check the posted weekly docket or calendar area.
2. Look for the court date, party name, case type, or docket label if the item is posted.
3. Confirm whether the matter is District Court, JP, municipal, mayor's court, or federal.
4. Use the Clerk of Court or judge's office when direct notice, a changed setting, or a certified case record is needed.
5. Arrive or call based on the current notice received from the court, not an old calendar capture.

LaSalle Parish 9:30 Docket Notice

The 28th JDC calendar page states that all court proceedings begin at 9:30 a.m. unless otherwise scheduled. That line is useful for planning, but it is not a promise that every matter starts at that time or that every setting appears online. The court expressly warns that schedules can change without website notification. If a summons, order, subpoena, notice, or Clerk communication gives a different time or instruction, that direct notice must be treated as the stronger source.

For practical use, a person checking LaSalle Parish court dockets should record the source and date of the information. A calendar page can help with planning travel to Jena, but court parties should confirm with the Clerk or judge's office before missing work, arranging witnesses, or assuming that a matter was continued. The same rule applies to attorneys, witnesses, jurors, defendants, and civil parties.

LaSalle Parish Docket Sources

LaSalle Parish is a one-parish judicial district. The Twenty-Eighth Judicial District Court handles general jurisdiction matters, including civil, felony criminal, family, succession, and most parish-level court issues. The Clerk of Court maintains the file record for those cases. Lower-level settings may sit with a Justice of the Peace or with a municipality when local jurisdiction exists.

The Louisiana Attorney General directory is the official statewide place found for LaSalle Parish JP and constable contacts. Its public search controls include title, parish, region, and search filters, with rows for name, position, region, parish, jurisdiction, and phone. JP court dockets are not the same as the District Court calendar, and a municipal citation should be checked against the town or court named on the ticket.

• Twenty-Eighth Judicial District Court: District Court matters and posted calendar notices.
• LaSalle Parish Clerk of Court: case file access, copies, and direct docket notice confirmation.
• Justice of the Peace districts: smaller local disputes and matters listed through AG directory contacts.
• Municipal or mayor's court settings: ordinance or traffic matters tied to the municipality named on the citation.
• Federal courts: federal civil, criminal, and bankruptcy dockets outside the parish court system.

LaSalle Parish Remote Hearing Rules

The 28th JDC video conference procedure is narrow and specific. The court will allow pretrial conferences by video if the parties desire, all parties agree, all parties participate by video, and each device is specifically identified. The court also says Louisiana civil and criminal procedure allow certain matters by video conference, and the court will consider hearing certain matters that way where all parties agree.

Remote hearing details can affect a docket entry because the setting may not mean a normal courthouse appearance. A party should confirm whether the hearing is in person, by video, or continued. The court identifies video conference scheduling through the court office, and the research file names Alanna Edwards at the 28th JDC phone number for video conference scheduling. Do not assume that a LaSalle Parish court docket entry grants remote access by itself.

LaSalle Parish Jury Docket Checks

Jury service has its own notice path. The official juror page gives jury qualifications, exemptions, random selection from the General Venire, and jury-line instructions. Jurors must call the jury line after 3:00 p.m. on the Friday before summons for instructions, and the research file notes a current summons release notice for June 22, 2026. A jury notice should be checked through the court's juror page or court office rather than a general calendar assumption.

Jury docket status can change close to the appearance date. The local jury line is listed as (318) 992-7315, and jury qualification, exemption, or hardship questions route to the 28th JDC office. This is a separate process from looking up a civil or criminal docket entry. A person who is summoned as a juror is not searching for a case file; that person is confirming service instructions.

LaSalle Parish Dockets vs Case Records

A docket answers timing and progress questions. A full case record answers what was filed, ordered, proved, certified, or decided. For criminal matters, the docket or minutes may show arraignment, plea, motion, trial setting, disposition, sentence, warrant, recall, or appeal activity. For civil matters, it may show filing, service, answer, motion, rule, continuance, judgment, and appeal events.

Certified copies should be requested from the Clerk. Online payment records, Sheriff custody status, and calendar notices should not be treated as substitutes for court records. For a broader case-file search path, the general LaSalle Parish court records page separates court files from other record types.

Federal Dockets for LaSalle Parish

Federal cases are outside the LaSalle Parish Clerk of Court system. LaSalle Parish is in the Western District of Louisiana, and bankruptcy cases use the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Louisiana. The bankruptcy court's live CM/ECF system identifies itself as live case information, and federal court records generally use PACER and CM/ECF rather than a parish docket page.

The manifest includes a successful image of the Western District bankruptcy CM/ECF live database source.

That federal docket channel matters when the case is federal bankruptcy, not when the setting is a LaSalle Parish District Court or JP matter.