Rule 1.1.Repeal of Local Rules

Rule 1.1 does its work through a single sunset date. Every local rule, internal operating procedure, and experimental rule that a superior court had adopted on its own expired effective December 31, 2010. Nothing survived that date automatically — whatever a circuit had built up over the years to handle its own practice quirks came to an end at once.

That sunset carries out the uniformity policy Rule 1 announces. As long as individual circuits kept their own patchwork of local rules alive, the promise of one consistent set of procedures statewide was only partly true. Rule 1.1 closes that gap by clearing the board on a fixed date, rather than leaving circuits to phase out old rules on their own schedule.

The expiration does not leave courts without any tools to manage their own dockets — later provisions in Rule 1.2 spell out what kinds of internal practices and standing orders a court may still maintain. Rule 1.1 itself is narrower: it repeals the three named categories of court-specific rulemaking and fixes the date on which that repeal took hold.