D.D.C. LCvR 40.4

A judge shall be relieved by the Calendar and Case Management Committee from any new

assignment of indictments and civil cases accompanied by motions for temporary restraining

orders and preliminary injunctions or civil cases in which an intention to file a motion for a

preliminary injunction is expressed, upon notification by the judge or the Chief Judge to the

Committee that the judge: (1) has continued in a protracted trial or hearing for 10 consecutive

trial days; 2 (2) is confined to a hospital; (3) is confined at home due to illness for seven days; (4)

has had a death in the judge's immediate family; or (5) is performing judicial duties out of this

jurisdiction pursuant to assignment. New cases shall be assigned to the judge in accordance with

normal procedures upon the conclusion of any such condition.

Whenever a judge begins what is expected to be an unusually protracted criminal trial (one

lasting four weeks or more) he or she may refer to the Calendar and Case Management

Committee for routine reassignment such other criminal cases assigned to such judge as the

judge was unable to dispose of prior thereto and which are expected to require disposition

pursuant to the Speedy Trial Act within the time period of the unusually protracted trial.