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Chief Judge Savoie:

This office is in receipt of your request for an opinion from the Attorney General concerning whether the Fourteenth Judicial District Court (the "14th JDC") can take all civil and criminal cases currently assigned to a particular division and re-allot them to the other divisions and whether the 14th JDC can stop allotting civil and criminal cases to a particular division which has recently been designated to handle juvenile and domestic matters. The Attorney General's response to your request is as follows.

Because your request questions the designation and assignment of…