| Act | niem-profile:niem | An action or behavior of a juvenile that makes the juvenile potentially subject to adjudication by the juvenile court as a delinquent. |
| ActedOnBehalfOf | niem-profile:niem | The actor on whose behalf the filing was submitted to the court as set forth in the docket entry. |
| Actor | niem-profile:niem | The actor who performed the action as set forth in the docket entry. E.g. the person who filed the document. Does not include the name of the court clerk composing the docket entry. |
| AddedParty | niem-profile:niem | Party added to the appeal that was not a party in the original case. For instance, the attorney in the original case may appeal sanctions against the attorney by the court. |
| Address | niem-profile:niem | An address. |
| address | type | A description of the type of address. Example: mailing address, physical address, GPS coordinates. |
| Alias | niem-profile:niem | A name, a type, and a reference to an alternate identity used by a person or organization |
| AllocateCourtDateMessage | niem-profile:niem | A request to allocate a court date on the schedule. |
| AllowanceCharge | niem-profile:niem | An authorization by the filer allowing the court to take money from the filer, for a particular purpose, and by a particular means. Only for case-related activities. This may only be included with the ReviewFiling message sent to the court - it must not be included with the ReviewFiling message served to other parties in the case. |
| AllowedCodeValue | niem-profile:niem | A value allowed for the parent identified element, and associated information. |
| Amount | niem-profile:niem | A monetary amount |
| amount | type | An amount of money. |
| AppellateCaseInformation | niem-profile:niem | Additional information specific to appellate cases. |
| Arrest | niem-profile:niem | The act of taking physical control over the person of another by a law enforcement officer or other person acting under color of law. |
| ArrestingOfficer | niem-profile:niem | An employee of a law enforcement agency who effects an arrest. |
| AttachmentMetadata | niem-profile:niem | Information describing an attachment included within a message. An attachment can be a binary file representing the document to be filed, an XML document, a digital signature, or other MIME file. |
| Attorney | niem-profile:niem | A legal representative to a party in a case. |
| BankruptcyCaseInformation | niem-profile:niem | Additional information specific to bankruptcy cases. |
| BankruptcyStatute | niem-profile:niem | Section 11 of the United States Code pertaining to bankruptcy. |
| BaseMessage | niem-profile:niem | The core information contained in an ECF 5.0 message. |
| binary | type | A digital representation of an object encoded in a binary format. |
| BinaryDescriptionCode | enum_pattern | IANA MIME type specifiying the format of the attachment. Example: application/msword; application/pdf. |
| Biometric | niem-profile:niem | Biometric information associated with a defendant. |
| Booking | niem-profile:niem | Details about an administrative step taken after an arrested subject is brought to a police station or detention facility, which involves entry of the subject name and other relevant facts on the police blotter, and which may also include photographing, fingerprinting, and the like. |
| Branch | niem-profile:niem | A subunit of a financial organization, usually denoted by a physical location. Examples: the "downtown" or "Willow Grove" branch of the First National Bank.
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| CalendarEvent | niem-profile:niem | Details about an event on the court calendar. |
| CancelFilingMessage | niem-profile:niem | This is a request from the filer to the reviewer to cancel a previously submitted filing. |
| CardAccount | niem-profile:niem | An agreement between a person or organization and a financial institution by which the institution agrees to pay amounts incurred by the person or organization evidenced by the use of a card or card number issued by the institution to reflect a specific account at the institution. The term includes both credit and debit accounts.
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| Case | niem-profile:niem | Information needed to initiate a court case. The presence of caseTrackingIdentifier is the indicator of whether this is an existing case (present) or new case (absent). For existing cases, caseTrackingIdentifier and shortCaseTitle are mandatory; caseTypeCode is not allowed. For new cases, shortCaseTitle and caseTypeCode are mandatory; caseTrackingIdentifier is not allowed. |
| CaseAttorneyRole | niem-profile:niem | The role played by an attorney in this case. |
| CaseDocketEntry | niem-profile:niem | An entry in the docket or register of actions for a case. |
| CaseInformation | niem-profile:niem | Information about a court case. |
| CaseItemRole | | The role played by an item in this case. |
| CaseOrganizationRole | niem-profile:niem | A description of the specific role played by one or more of the organization "other actor(s)" involved in the case. |
| CaseOrigin | niem-profile:niem | The prior court, police, or prosecutor case from which this case originates. Examples: case appealed to this court from a lower court; case transferred to or removed to this court; case remanded to this court; original proceeding in this court; in some courts, a designation that this case is a reopening of a proceeding in the same court. In the criminal and juvenile delinquency contexts a police incident report number, a prosecution case number, a grand jury case number, or a criminal case bound over to this court for trial from a limited jurisdiction court. |
| CaseParticipant | niem-profile:niem | Placeholder for all case participants, i.e. persons or organizations playing a role in a case. This is where all actor details are expressed. |
| CasePersonRole | niem-profile:niem | A description of the specific role played by one or more of the person "other actor(s)" or "other party(s)" involved in the case. |
| CasePropertyRole | niem-profile:niem | A description of the specific role played by a item/property involved in the case. |
| CaseQueryCriteria | niem-profile:niem | Criteria limiting the case information to be returned. |
| CaseStatus | niem-profile:niem | Current disposition of the case. |
| CaseTypeExtension | niem-profile:niem | Information defined within one of the specific case types defined in the ECF 5.0 specification -- bankruptcy, civil, criminal, domestic relations, juvenile, and traffic. |
| CaseTypes | niem-profile:niem | A list of ECF case types. |
| Charge | niem-profile:niem | The crime or violation a defendant is alleged or found to have committed.
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| ChargeDisposition | niem-profile:niem | The findings of the trial court regarding a crime or violation a defendant was accused of. |
| ChildSupportPetitionInformation | niem-profile:niem | Information concerning a petition for child support. |
| Citation | niem-profile:niem | A charge issued by a law enforcement officer for a "violation" requiring the person charged to plead guilty to the charge or to appear in court to contest the charge. A citation is issued in lieu of an arrest and booking. "Violations" are a subset of "charges" for which a law enforcement officer is authorized to issue a citation in lieu of arrest and booking. Examples: traffic ticket, parking ticket or ticket issued for some other ordinance violation such as barking dog or illegal dumping.
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| CitationAgency | niem-profile:niem | The law enforcement agency employing the law enforcement officer who issues a citation. |
| CitationCourtAppearance | niem-profile:niem | Representation of when the offender is required to appear in court. |
| CitationIssuingOfficial | niem-profile:niem | The law enforcement official issuing a citation. |
| CivilAppellateCaseInformation | niem-profile:niem | Additional information specific to civil appellate cases. |
| CivilCaseInformation | niem-profile:niem | Information required to initiate a new civil case in a court. "Civil" includes conservatorships, guardianships, mental health and probate. |
| CivilPerson | niem-profile:niem | Information about the person for whom another person or organization is assuming a fiduciary obligation. |
| Clerk | actor | A clerk or judicial officer that reviews and accepts court filings. |
| CMSDMS | entity | A court case management system and document management system. |
| code | type | A set of alpha or numeric characters to be used to represent a stated value. |
| ConnectedDocument | niem-profile:niem | A document included in a Filing that supports the lead Document. This document is not separately entered on the docket or register of actions. |
| ContactInformation | niem-profile:niem | The preferred contact for a person or organization, such as address, telephone number, or email address. |
| CoreCodelist | niem-profile:niem | The list in Court Policy of data elements and corresponding lists of valid codes for those elements in a particular court. |
| CoreFilingMessage | niem-profile:niem | The structure of a Filing including any Payment Information will be documented in this section. This describes the filing transaction between the Filing Assembly MDE and the Filing Review MDE. This information will become part of the Record Docketing between the Filing Review MDE and the Court Record MDE but does not necessarily describe the information that is actually stored in the Court Record. |
| Court | niem-profile:niem | A person or body of persons whose task is to hear and submit a decision on cases at law. |
| CourtExtension | niem-profile:niem | A structure representing the court-specific extensions for the court associated with this Court Policy. |
| CourtPolicyMDE | interface | |
| CourtRecordMDE | interface | The list of operations supported by the Court Record MDE. |
| CourtRuleAppellateCaseInformation | niem-profile:niem | Additional information specific to court rule appellate cases. |
| CourtSchedulingMDE | interface | The Court Scheduling MDE is to provide the capability for the filer to submit a request a hearing or calendar date (CourtScheduletQueryMessage) along with the electronic document filing. This is because many court document filings are made specifically to schedule hearings or conference meetings. The MDE provides the ability for the court to respond to the request (allocateCourtDate). And it also allows for the participant to query the court calendar for a specific date and/or time (CourtScheduletQueryMessage). |
| CreditAccount | niem-profile:niem | An account created within a court financial system crediting a person or organization with a balance against which future fees may be charged. |
| CriminalAppellateCaseInformation | niem-profile:niem | Additional information specific to criminal appellate cases. |
| CriminalCaseInformation | niem-profile:niem | Information required to initiate a new criminal case in a court. "Criminal" includes felonies and misdemeanors. |
| CriminalPerson | niem-profile:niem | Additional information about a person. |
| Custody | niem-profile:niem | Information concerning the custody of the defendant. |
| Date | niem-profile:niem | A date. |
| date | type | A date. |
| dateTime | type | A date and time. |
| Debtor | niem-profile:niem | The person or organization on whose behalf, or against whom, a bankruptcy petition is filed. A "joint petition" is indicated by naming the spouses who are both debtors in the case. |
| DecedentEstateCaseInformation | niem-profile:niem | Information about a case administering and distributing the assets of a testate or intestate decedent. |
| Defendant | niem-profile:niem | A person or organization alleged or found to have committed a crime or violation. |
| DelinquentAct | niem-profile:niem | The statutory or ordinance section, the violation of which would constitute a crime if committed by an adult. May include a probation violation. |
| DependencyAllegation | niem-profile:niem | The grounds for declaring a minor child to be a ward of the state because of the neglect or abuse of the parents or guardians of the minor child. |
| DevelopmentPolicyParameters | niem-profile:niem | Within Court Policy, the policies that are accessed by a person or organization developing an applications or configuring an application to interact with a court for the purpose of structuring the interactions with that court. This information is needed once and is not accessed dynamically while interacting with the court. |
| DocketedCase | niem-profile:niem | A case that has been initiated in the court record system. |
| Document | niem-profile:niem | The pleading, motion or order that is the main document in a Filing. A Document may have Connected Documents, which are "appendices" or "exhibits" that are intended for filing only in the context of the Lead Document. |
| DocumentMetadata | niem-profile:niem | Document descriptors (title, type description, etc.) for the Document. This is meant to include all the information about the document that is needed to index it into the Case Management System and enter it into the Document Management System. |
| DocumentRenditionMetadata | niem-profile:niem | Descriptors for a rendition of a Document. This is meant to include all the information about the document that is needed to enter it into the Document Management System. |
| DocumentSignature | niem-profile:niem | Information describing or constituting the signature on a document submitted to a court for filing. |
| DocumentStampInformationMessage | niem-profile:niem | A request to get document stamping information. |
| DomesticCaseInformation | niem-profile:niem | Information required to initiate a new domestic case in a court. "Domestic" includes divorces, legal separations, annulment, child custody and visitation, paternity, child support, and domestic violence cases. |
| DomesticCaseOrderInformation | niem-profile:niem | Information concerning a court order in a domestic case. |
| DomesticCasePersonInformation | niem-profile:niem | Information about persons in a domestic case. |
| DomesticLegalRelationshipInformation | niem-profile:niem | Information about a marriage, civil domestic union, or other domestic relationship defined by law. |
| DomesticViolencePetitionInformation | niem-profile:niem | Information concerning a petition for domestic violence restraining or protective order. |
| DriversLicenseInformation | niem-profile:niem | Additional information about a drivers license. |
| DrivingIncident | niem-profile:niem | The incident from which a traffic ticket arose. |
| duration | type | An amount of time. |
| ElectronicFilingCallbackMessage | niem-profile:niem | The base message for an asynchronous response to a message. |
| ElectronicFilingMessage | niem-profile:niem | The base message for a message with an asynchronous response. |
| ElectronicServiceInformation | niem-profile:niem | Information provided by the filing assembly MDE to the court identifying the persons being served electronically with a copy of this filing. This information can constitute the certificate of service for service performed electronically. This information is also provided by the filing assembly MDE to service MDEs to identify persons to whom the service MDEs are required to deliver the filing. |
| Employment | niem-profile:niem | Employment of an individual by an organization. |
| Entity | niem-profile:niem | A person, organization, or property. |
| Error | niem-profile:niem | Representation of an error that occured when synchronously processing the message. |
| extension | type | An extension point for adding custom content to the data model. |
| ExtensionReference | niem-profile:niem | A structure representing a court-specific data structure passed to a particular operation on a particular MDE. |
| FiduciaryCaseInformation | niem-profile:niem | Information about a guardianship, conservatorship, trust, or mental health case. |
| Filer | actor | A filer that submits filings to a court and serves filings to other parties in a case. |
| FilingAssemblyMDE | interface | The list of operations supported by the Filing Assembly MDE. |
| FilingReviewMDE | interface | The list of operations supported by the Filing Review MDE. |
| FinancialAccount | niem-profile:niem | An account in a financial institution. |
| FinancialInstitution | niem-profile:niem | The bank, savings association, credit union or other entity in which a financial account exists. |
| FinancialObligation | niem-profile:niem | A financial responsibility of a party in a case ordered by a court. |
| GetCaseListRequestMessage | niem-profile:niem | This is a query for a list of cases that match a set of criteria including case participants, case classification, case status, and date of the case was initiated. |
| GetCaseListResponseMessage | niem-profile:niem | A synchronous response to a GetCaseListQueryMessage.
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| GetCaseRequestMessage | niem-profile:niem | A message requesting a list of cases from a court case management information system conforming to the parameter or parameters identified in the message. |
| GetCaseResponseMessage | niem-profile:niem | The response to a GetCaseInformationQuery.
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| GetCourtScheduleRequestMessage | niem-profile:niem | A request for the schedule of upcoming events in a court |
| GetCourtScheduleResponseMessage | niem-profile:niem | The schedule of upcoming events in a court |
| GetDocumentRequestMessage | niem-profile:niem | The base information contained in any query message. |
| GetDocumentResponseMessage | niem-profile:niem | The court response to a request for an electronic document in the court official record.
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| GetFeesCalculationRequestMessage | niem-profile:niem | This query is a request for the total amount of court fees required for filing of one or more documents in a case.
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| GetFeesCalculationResponseMessage | niem-profile:niem | The response to a CalculatedFeesQueryMessage, which may either be 0 indicating no fee is due, a currency amount indicating the fee due upon filing, or unknown indicating that the court case management information system is unable to calculate the fee for the proposed filing.
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| GetFilingListRequestMessage | niem-profile:niem | This is query to get a list of filings by Filer Identification, Case Identifier, or time period. |
| GetFilingListResponseMessage | niem-profile:niem | This is a response to a query for a list of filings by Filer Identification, Case Identifier, or time period. |
| GetFilingStatusRequestMessage | niem-profile:niem | This is query to get a filing status by Filing Number. |
| GetFilingStatusResponseMessage | niem-profile:niem | A court response to a FilingStatusQueryMessage. |
| GetPolicyRequestMessage | niem-profile:niem | A request for a court's Court Policy. |
| GetPolicyResponseMessage | niem-profile:niem | The response to a request for a court Court Policy. |
| GetServiceInformationRequestMessage | niem-profile:niem | A message requesting information concerning the persons entitled to services of filings in a particular court case, together with the electronic addresses and message profiles of their Filing Assembly MDEs and their physical addresses if they are not currently using a Filing Assembly MDE. |
| GetServiceInformationResponseMessage | niem-profile:niem | The response to a serviceInformationQueryMessage, setting forth the requested information. |
| id | type | A structure that describes an identifier of an entity. |
| Identification | niem-profile:niem | An identifier |
| Insurance | niem-profile:niem | Insurance coverage for an individual. |
| JudicialOfficer | niem-profile:niem | A judicial officer assigned to a calendar event.
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| Juvenile | niem-profile:niem | A minor who is the subject of a delinquency or dependency case. |
| JuvenileCase | niem-profile:niem | A delinquency or dependency case. |
| LeadDocument | niem-profile:niem | The pleading, motion or order that is the main document in a Filing. A Document may have Attachments. |
| Location | niem-profile:niem | A location. |
| MajorDesignElements | niem-profile:niem | An ECF Major Design Element (MDE) |
| MatchingCase | niem-profile:niem | A case meeting the criteria set forth in a query. |
| MatchingFiling | niem-profile:niem | A filing matching the parameters submitted with a FilingListQueryMessage. |
| MessageReceiptMessage | niem-profile:niem | A message returned synchronously to indicate receipt by an MDE of another message. The name "MessageReceipt" suggested by S. Durham June 30 2005, and adopted by consensus on a TC call that day. The intent is that this will serve as the synchronous reply to all MDE operations that have an additional, asynchronous callback. |
| name | type | A structure that describes a name of a person or organization. |
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| NotifyCourtDateMessage | niem-profile:niem | The message returned when the a court date is scheduled, generally in response to a ReserveCourtDateRequest. |
| NotifyDocketingCompleteMessage | niem-profile:niem | The message returned from the Court Record MDE to the Filing Review MDE when the functions of entering information onto the docket or register of actions and commiting a filed document(s) to the official court record have been completed, conveying the results of those functions. |
| NotifyDocumentStampInformationMessage | niem-profile:niem | A response to a request for document stamping information. |
| NotifyFilingReviewCompleteMessage | niem-profile:niem | The asynchronous message from the Filing Review MDE to the Filing Assembly MDE conveying information concerning the court actions on the documents submitted for filing in a ReviewFilingMessage. |
| Obligation | niem-profile:niem | A responsibility of a party in a case ordered by a court. |
| Offender | niem-profile:niem | A person named in a citation alleged to have violated a statute or ordinance. |
| Operations | niem-profile:niem | A list of ECF operations. |
| Organization | niem-profile:niem | A structure that describes a unit which conducts some sort of business or operations. |
| OrganizationRelationship | niem-profile:niem | The relationship between two organizations. Example: subsidiary corporation. |
| ParentGuardian | niem-profile:niem | Information about the parent(s) or guardian(s) of a juvenile. |
| ParentRelationship | niem-profile:niem | Information relating to a parent. |
| ParkingViolationInformation | niem-profile:niem | Information about a parking violation. |
| Payment | niem-profile:niem | The payment submitted with a filing. The payment may consist of a fee for filing of the document(s) submitted, or for a fine or other payment due to the court. |
| PaymentMeans | niem-profile:niem | The payment method employed to complete a transaction. Examples: credit card, debit card, automatic funds transfer, debit to an escrow account held at the court, promise to pay at a future date. Allowable values set forth in Court Policy. |
| PaymentMessage | niem-profile:niem | The payment submitted with a filing. The payment may consist of a fee for filing of the document(s) submitted, or for a fine or other payment due to the court. |
| Person | niem-profile:niem | The person playing a role in a case. |
| PersonOrganizationRelationship | niem-profile:niem | The relationship of a person to an organization in a case. Allowable values set forth in Court Policy. An example is the relationship between an attorney and the law firm. |
| PersonRelationship | niem-profile:niem | The relationship of a person to another person in a case. Allowable values set forth in Court Policy. |
| Placement | niem-profile:niem | Information about the person or organization orther than parent or guardian with whom the juvenile lives. Examples: Foster home, foster parents, state institution, hospital, shelter. |
| PlacementOrganization | niem-profile:niem | An entity to whom the care of a juvenile is committed. |
| PlacementPerson | niem-profile:niem | The person to whom the care of a juvenile is committed. |
| PostalAddress | niem-profile:niem | A postal address. |
| ProofOfInsurance | niem-profile:niem | Information concerning whether an individual possesses proof of insurance coverage. |
| Property | niem-profile:niem | An inanimate object that is named as a party in a case. Examples include an automobile, airplane, gun, or cash sought to be forfeited to the state as an instrumentality of a crime or a vessel against which a warrant issues in an admiralty case. |
| PublicKeyInformation | niem-profile:niem | Symmetric or asymmetric keys used to encrypt and decrypt, or verify signed messages or documents exchanged with the court. |
| RecordDocketingMessage | niem-profile:niem | Message resulting from clerk review and edit of a ReviewFilingMessage. |
| RelatedCase | niem-profile:niem | Case or cases sharing characteristics, such as common parties or events, with this case. |
| RelatedDocketEntry | niem-profile:niem | An entry on the docket or register of actions that is a child of the current docket entry. |
| RemovedParty | niem-profile:niem | Party to the original case that is not party to the appeal. |
| RequestMessage | niem-profile:niem | The base message for a synchronous request/query. |
| ReserveCourtDateMessage | niem-profile:niem | A request to allocate a court date on the schedule. |
| ResponseMessage | niem-profile:niem | The base message for a synchronous response to a request.
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| ReviewedDocument | niem-profile:niem | A document that has been reviewed through the clerk review process, and that potentially has been or will be reocrded in the court record system. |
| RuntimePolicyParameters | niem-profile:niem | Within Court Policy, the policies that are accessed dynamically by applications interacting with a court. |
| Sentence | niem-profile:niem | A sentence associated with a specific charge in a case. A sentence may have multiple components (prison, probation, post-incarceration supervision/probation fine, etc.). |
| SentenceComponent | niem-profile:niem | A required saction ordered by the court as part of a sentence. |
| ServeProcessMessage | niem-profile:niem | A message to deliver a filing to a process server. |
| ServiceMDE | interface | The list of operations supported by the Service MDE. |
| ServiceReceiptMessage | niem-profile:niem | A synchronous response by a Filing Assembly MDE acknowledging receipt of a service message for one of its clients. |
| ServiceRecipient | actor | A party in a case that receives filings. |
| ServiceRecipientStatus | niem-profile:niem | A value describing the status of electronic service on a particular recipient. |
| SpeedRate | niem-profile:niem | A speed a vehicle was moving at when an incident occurred. |
| StatusOffenseAct | niem-profile:niem | An act or behavior that would not constitute a crime if committed by an adult, which will subject a juvenile to adjudication as a delinquent by a court. Examples include truancy and refusal to abide by a parent orders or direction. |
| StatusOffenseActCodeType | niem-profile:niem | A list of status offenses. |
| StreetAddress | niem-profile:niem | A street address. |
| SupportedCaseTypes | niem-profile:niem | A structure containing indicators that signal support by the e-filing system for each ECF case type. |
| SupportedMessageProfile | niem-profile:niem | A message profile approved for use with ECF by the OASIS LegalXML Member Section Electronic Court Filing Technical Committee that are supported in a particualr court. Identifiers for supported profiles are set forth in Court Policy. |
| SupportedOperations | niem-profile:niem | A structure containing indicators that signal support by the e-filing system for optional ECF operations. E.g. particular queries. |
| SupportedSignatureProfile | niem-profile:niem | A signature profile approved for use with ECF 3.0 by the OASIS LegalXML Member Section Electronic Court Filing Technical Committee that are supported in a particualr court. Identifiers for supported profiles are set forth in Court Policy. |
| TelephoneNumber | niem-profile:niem | A telephone number. |
| time | type | a time of day. |
| TimeRange | niem-profile:niem | A period of time bounded by upper and lower (to and from) dates/times. |
| url | type | A Uniform Resource Locator (URL). |
| Vehicle | niem-profile:niem | Information describing a motor vehicle. |
| ViolatedStatute | niem-profile:niem | The statutory or ordinance section a defendant or violator is alleged to have committed. May include a probation violation.
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