General Priorities

In resolving scheduling conflicts the following priorities should ordinarily prevail: (a) appellate cases should prevail over trial cases; (b) criminal felony trials should prevail over civil trials; (c) cases in which the trial date has been first set (by published calendar, order or notice) should take precedence over cases which were set later; (d) trials should prevail over hearings, and hearings should prevail over conferences; and, (e) trials and hearings of a judge in travel status should prevail over trials and hearings of a judge sitting in residence.