Court of Common Pleas of Potter County, Pennsylvania Adjournment & Extension Requirements

A party seeking to continue a covered inactive criminal proceeding must show good cause at the general call or the proceeding will be dismissed.

If no good cause for continuing a proceeding is shown at the general call, an order for dismissal shall be entered forthwith by the court.

A continuance must be requested by written motion, with notice to opposing counsel or pro se parties and a statement of whether the parties and/or counsel agree; the motion may be summarily denied absent that information, and continuances are granted only for good cause.

Any party seeking a continuance, must do so by written motion and notify opposing counsel or pro se parties and state in the Motion whether the parties and/or counsel agree to the continuance. In the absence of the same, the motion will be summarily denied. A party seeking a continuance must also prepare and submit a proposed order and appropriately circulate the signed order. No continuances of hearings or trials scheduled will be granted except for good cause shown. All filing fees for a continuance must be paid before the Court will consider the motion.

Mediation may be continued once by all parties’ agreement at least 10 days before the scheduled date; the requesting party must notify the mediator in writing, and a court must decide a continuance if the parties fail to agree more than 10 days beforehand.

(d) At least 10 days before the date of mediation, the mediation may be continued one time by agreement of all parties. The party requesting the continuance shall give written notice of the continuance to the mediator. The mediator shall reschedule mediation within 60 days from the date the mediation was to originally occur with notice provided to all parties. In the event that the parties fail to agree to a continuance more than 10 days prior to the date of the scheduled mediation, a continuance shall be filed with and decided by the Court. If the case is continued by the Court, the mediator shall reschedule the mediation in accordance with the Court’s order granting the continuance.

A continuance based on a litigant not being ready for trial will not be granted unless the Court receives notice of that unreadiness within 10 days after the case is listed.

(e) No continuance will be granted because of any litigant being “not ready for trial” unless notice that the litigant is not ready is presented to the Court within ten (10) days from the date of said listing.

An application to continue the pre-trial conference must be made by motion addressed to the court.

(c) Any application for continuance of the conference shall be by motion addressed to the court.