The St. Bernard Parish Court Calendar
The main trial docket in the parish sits with the Thirty-Fourth Judicial District Court, known locally as the 34th JDC. Five divisions run it, A through E. The St. Bernard Parish Clerk of Court maintains the official district-court record. The court's site does post an official calendar page. It offers no public search form a visitor can work with.
For a criminal setting, the practical online starting point is the District Attorney's Docket and Court Dates list. Treat it as a calendar publication, not the Clerk's full register or a certified copy. Each card can show a date. A division, a time, a setting heading, and a case-number line round it out. When entries conflict, trust the signed notice, the current minute entry, or word from the assigned division.
Note: A calendar card helps you locate a setting. But it cannot prove the setting was not later continued or reset.
St. Bernard Parish DA Calendar
A Type to Search control filters the DA's public list. Typing a criminal case number works well. Enter it exactly as it appears on the notice. Then read the whole heading around the match. Headings mark either ordinary Court business or a Felony Trial Week, then add a date, a division letter, and a time. Case-number lines may use a two-digit year, a hyphen, five digits, and sometimes slash notation for related counts.
A Felony Trial Week is simply a block reserved for felony trial work. It does not mean every case under that block will be tried at one individual time. For controlling detail, rely on the case-specific notice, the minute entry, or the assigned division. A separate Magistrate Court & Bond Settings list holds dated Magistrate Court A and B cards. Read it as its own thing. It is not an ordinary division calendar.
How to Find Your Court Date
Any St. Bernard Parish court-date search should begin with the newest notice you have, paper or electronic. The case number, division, and event description on it help you tell a fresh setting apart from a stale calendar card. Then pick the channel that fits the case. Criminal matters may show up on the DA list. A civil, family, probate, or fuller district-court record may call for the Clerk's channels instead.
- Read the citation, summons, minute entry, or latest order and copy the case number exactly, including zeroes, hyphens, and any slash notation.
- For a criminal case, search the public DA Docket and Court Dates list and read the date, division, time, and heading together.
- For a bail or initial-custody matter, check the DA magistrate cards and the 34th JDC magistrate schedule rather than assuming the ordinary calendar applies.
- Call the assigned division for a current-setting question. Division A is (504) 278-4414, B is (504) 278-4420, C is (504) 278-4425, D is (504) 278-4433, and E is (504) 278-4417.
- If a minute entry, official file, older record, or copy is needed, contact the Clerk at (504) 271-3434 or ask at the Clerk counter. Ask whether a posted daily docket or public terminal is available because the inspected pages did not document either one.
- For a Justice of the Peace matter, identify the ward on the citation and use the Ward A through K directory. There is no unified parish JP calendar search.
A party's attorney can confirm the current notice and any appearance instructions as well. When a statewide result would help locate a district-court record, eClerks LA serves as a locator and minute-entry layer. It does not replace the court's own live setting confirmation.
St. Bernard Parish Setting Confirmation
For a reset, a moved hearing, or the meaning of a calendar time, the assigned division is the best direct source. Its division page lists an administrative contact. The Clerk holds the official case file. Go by the division named in the current notice, not by a judge name pulled from an old card. That caution matters. The DA list shows division letters but publishes no judge or courtroom field.
The official Division C contact panel shows the kind of division-specific contact information the 34th JDC posts.
Use the contact page for whichever division holds the case. The panel is a confirmation route, not a public docket and not a stand-in for the Clerk's minute record.
Note: A division answers live setting questions, while the Clerk remains the source for an official record or certified copy.
Reading a Court Setting
Read a St. Bernard Parish court setting as a set of fields. Never treat it as a lone date. The DA card orients you. But several fields you might expect are missing from the public list. A division letter, for one, is not a confirmed judge assignment. A listed time is not necessarily when every matter will be called.
| Date | The calendar date shown in the DA heading or in the newer notice or minute entry. |
|---|---|
| Time | The card’s listed time. Inspected ordinary entries included 9:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m.; confirm the current arrival instruction with the division. |
| Division | Division A through E shown on the public heading. Use that division’s administrative contact for confirmation. |
| Courtroom | Not exposed in the inspected public calendar text. Confirm it from the current notice or the assigned division. |
| Setting type | Public labels include Court, Felony Trial Week, and Magistrate Court A or B. The complete local taxonomy was not published. |
St. Bernard Parish Calendar Card Limits
A St. Bernard Parish DA card stays deliberately narrow. The public card carries a court-date heading, a division, a time, a case-number label, a party or style line, and a linked image. Charge details are absent. So are a chronological register, a disposition, an attorney field, financial information, a courtroom, and any redaction flag. Use the card to find the setting. Then turn to the Clerk or the current case record for the underlying file.
- Setting
- A scheduled court event. The date can change, so the current notice or minute entry should be checked.
- Felony Trial Week
- A calendar block for felony trial work, not a guarantee of an individual case outcome or trial start.
- Minute entry
- The clerk’s event record of what occurred or what the court ordered at a proceeding.
Louisiana's criminal-minute-entry law covers qualifying criminal cases filed on or after January 1, 2020. It supports public electronic minute information through the statewide system. Not every document image is required, though. Traffic violations fall outside the mandate.
Resets, Continuances, and Cancellations
A reset moves a court date in St. Bernard Parish. A continuance does the same thing under another name. Shorthand like pass, continued without date, or case called has no published glossary here, so ask the Clerk or the division before guessing what a term means. Write down the old date and the new one whenever you ask about a change.
When sources conflict, follow an order of priority. The most recent signed order or minute entry comes first, then the assigned division, then the public calendar card. A calendar card can linger after the setting moves. A card that vanishes does not prove dismissal either. Neither the card nor its absence settles the question. For the official record path, the Clerk is the right office; for whether a setting is still live, call the division.
St. Bernard Parish Calendar Closure Orders
Weather moves St. Bernard Parish court dates fast. Closure orders leave a paper trail. The 34th JDC Orders and Forms archive holds closure notices from 2025 and 2026, along with a September 2024 tropical-weather closure. A closure shifts a day or a block of court business. It never announces a replacement setting for every case.
After a closure, confirm with the division. The 34th JDC posts a Division B contact panel that gives division contact details for that call, and it is one of several division pages on the court's site.
The order comes first. Then contact the assigned division about the new setting, and ask the Clerk for a current minute or record if you need a formal copy.
What To Do If You Miss a Setting
Missed a St. Bernard Parish court date? Do not sit on it. The notice holds two keys. It lists the case number and the assigned division, so start there and then call the division or an attorney about a new date, an order, or an appearance instruction. The Clerk can mark the official record route and explain how to get the minute entry, though legal advice is outside that office's job.
Missed a Setting? Missing a required court appearance can lead to consequences that depend on the case and any order already entered.
Contact the assigned division or attorney immediately, and use the Clerk for the current record rather than relying on an older calendar card.
For a criminal, custody, or bond matter, seek advice from a licensed attorney about the missed St. Bernard Parish setting before taking further action.
St. Bernard Parish Court-Date Confirmation
Confirming a St. Bernard Parish court date works best as a short chain. Start with your notice or the minute entry. For a criminal setting, check the public calendar next. The assigned division can answer a live scheduling question after that. The Clerk of Court keeps the official file. That office comes last and supplies certified copies when you need them. Each step does a different job. Skip one, and you can end up working from a stale docket date.
Not every case belongs on the 34th JDC calendar. A federal matter is different. It runs through the Eastern District of Louisiana's PACER and CM/ECF case-information route instead. A Justice of the Peace case stays with its ward office entirely.
Note: An old notice, a calendar card, and a later minute entry can disagree. The newest official event controls.
St. Bernard Parish Calendar No-Match
A St. Bernard Parish docket search can come up empty for many reasons. The case might be civil. Civil matters do not appear on the DA's criminal list. It may be too new to have been indexed yet, or it may sit in a JP ward office, in federal court, or behind access protections. Sometimes the card just hides the date. So recheck the case number and the court first. Do not conclude there is no hearing yet.
For a deeper district-court docket search, the Clerk offers Cott eSearch, a paid parish index covering civil and criminal records. Its Certified Dates utility is worth a check before relying on a recent filing. The statewide eClerks layer can surface civil, family, or probate information and qualifying criminal minute entries, but neither system promises a live hearing time.
St. Bernard Parish Magistrate Calendar
The 34th JDC magistrate function runs on its own track in St. Bernard Parish. It handles custody, bail, warrants, and related committing-magistrate work. The official 2026 schedule rotates the duty division month by month: January E, February B, March A, April C, May D, June E, July A, August B, September C, October D, November E, and December A.
That rotation names the division on duty. It is not a list of individual cases. For a bond or an initial custody setting, pair the monthly magistrate page with the DA's dated Magistrate Court A/B cards. Then confirm the case-specific date with the duty division, the Clerk, or counsel. One trap deserves a warning. A civil or criminal division date does not turn into a magistrate matter just because that division holds the rotation that month. Streams stay separate here.
St. Bernard Parish Magistrate Calendar Times
Local Rule 3.5 fixes magistrate court at 9:15 a.m. The duty judge may set a different time under that rule. The same rule allows an in-person appearance or an audio-video appearance from the jail for the proceedings it covers. That 9:15 a.m. figure is a rule-level default, though, not a universal arrival time for every St. Bernard Parish court calendar entry. The DA list shows why. Its ordinary examples run at 9:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m.
Audiovisual appearances are authorized for the listed proceedings. What the court does not publish is a permanent public video link or a general livestream calendar, so a remote option should never be assumed. Confirm the appearance method with the assigned court.