San Miguel Court Dockets
A docket is the court's schedule or chronological activity list. For a hearing schedule, it tells a reader what is set before the court during a short period. For a case docket, it can show filings, notices, orders, pleas, settings, continuances, warrants, dispositions, and payment events. The two ideas overlap, but they are not the same thing. A hearing calendar helps a person find when to appear. A full case record shows the file history.
The Fourth Judicial District court dockets hub is the local starting point for San Miguel County District and Magistrate hearing schedules. The district serves Guadalupe, Mora, and San Miguel counties, so users should choose the San Miguel County docket page rather than a neighboring county's schedule. The hub also distinguishes court-level calendars from full court records available through Case Lookup or re:SearchNM.
The Fourth Judicial District publishes its hearing schedule hub at Court Dockets.
The hub is the local doorway for San Miguel District Court and San Miguel Magistrate Court schedules.
San Miguel District Docket
The San Miguel County District Court docket lists hearings for the current day plus six days in the future. District Court is the general-jurisdiction trial court, so its hearings may involve felony criminal cases, civil cases, domestic relations, juvenile matters, mental health matters, lower-court appeals, administrative appeals, and contested probate matters. A docket page should not be treated as the whole case file. It is a schedule window.
The official district docket page warns that hearing details may contain omissions and that the court makes no warranty regarding the information. That warning is practical, not boilerplate. Hearings can be reset, sealed, omitted, or updated after a person checks the page. If a hearing is not found, or if the listed hearing does not match a notice, call the San Miguel County District Courthouse at 505-425-7281 before relying on the online schedule.
The San Miguel District Court schedule appears on the official District Court docket page.
The current-day plus six-day limit explains why older hearings and future settings outside that window may not appear there.
San Miguel Magistrate Docket
The San Miguel County Magistrate Court docket follows the same short-term model: hearings for the current day and six days ahead. Magistrate Court covers limited civil matters, landlord-tenant cases, misdemeanor cases, DWI/DUI, traffic matters, and felony preliminary hearings. Many first appearances and preliminary stages begin here before a felony case moves to District Court.
Because the Magistrate docket is also subject to omissions and no-warranty language, it should be checked close to the hearing date and confirmed with the court when the stakes are high. The Magistrate Courthouse is at 1927 Seventh St. in Las Vegas, phone 505-425-5204. Walk-in traffic citation services are listed for 8-9:30 a.m., but hearing times and case settings should be confirmed directly.
The Magistrate hearing schedule appears at the official San Miguel Magistrate docket page.
That schedule is especially important for traffic, misdemeanor, landlord-tenant, and preliminary criminal settings.
Search San Miguel Dockets
Use the docket pages for near-term hearing schedules, then use Case Lookup for a broader case search. The docket page is fastest when the question is, "Is there a hearing this week?" Case Lookup is better when the question is, "Does a case exist, what court is it in, and what case number or docket entries are public?" re:SearchNM may be needed for document access when the user's registered profile allows it.
- Open the Fourth Judicial District docket hub and choose the San Miguel District or Magistrate docket.
- Check the current day plus six-day window for the party, case, or hearing type.
- If the hearing is missing, search New Mexico Courts Case Lookup by name, court type, location, and date range.
- Call the District or Magistrate court if the schedule conflicts with a notice or the hearing is not listed.
- Use re:SearchNM or the court counter when the full record or a certified copy is needed.
San Miguel Docket Fields
The research did not capture a full sample docket entry from a live San Miguel hearing. The official pages were reviewed for access rules and warnings instead. Common docket and case-record fields should therefore be read as expected court-record elements from the research, not as a reproduced San Miguel docket sample.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Case number | Unique identifier for the case and court location. |
| Court type | District, Magistrate, Municipal, Metropolitan, or another court level in statewide systems. |
| Hearing date | The date a setting is scheduled, when included in the visible schedule. |
| Party name | Names tied to the case or search result, subject to confidentiality limits. |
| Docket entry | A filing, notice, hearing, order, plea, disposition, continuance, warrant, or payment event. |
| Status or disposition | Whether a matter appears pending, closed, dismissed, disposed, or otherwise resolved. |
Note: Missing docket entries should be checked with the court because the official schedule warns of possible omissions.
San Miguel Courts With Dockets
San Miguel County has several courts that can create docket information, but they do not all publish the same kind of online schedule. District and Magistrate hearing schedules are the strongest local published docket sources in the research. Municipal Court information may appear in statewide Case Lookup location options, including Las Vegas and Pecos municipal locations, but the researched Fourth District docket pages are for District and Magistrate courts.
- District Court: felony, civil, family, juvenile, mental health, appeals, and contested estate matters.
- Magistrate Court: limited civil, landlord-tenant, misdemeanor, DWI/DUI, traffic, and felony preliminary matters.
- Municipal Court: municipal ordinance, petty misdemeanor, DWI/DUI, and traffic matters without jury trials.
- Probate Court: informal and uncontested estates, with contested estates moving to District Court.
Dockets vs Court Records
A docket should be used to track a hearing or case event. A full court record should be used to review pleadings, orders, judgments, sentencing terms, certified copies, or the complete case history. A hearing schedule may say that a case is set, but it usually does not provide all documents filed in the case. A full record may also include items that never appear on a public short-term calendar.
| Question | Docket or Hearing Schedule | Full Case Record |
|---|---|---|
| Main use | Find current or near-term hearings. | Review filings, orders, outcomes, and documents. |
| San Miguel path | Fourth Judicial District District and Magistrate docket pages. | Case Lookup, re:SearchNM, Odyssey, or court counter. |
| Time span | Current day plus six days on official local docket pages. | Depends on case availability, retention, and access limits. |
| Limits | May omit hearings and carries no warranty. | May require registration, fees, or in-person request. |
Confirm San Miguel Hearings
If a docket entry is missing, contact the court before assuming a hearing was canceled. The District Courthouse is at 496 West National Ave., Las Vegas, NM 87701, phone 505-425-7281. The Magistrate Courthouse is at 1927 Seventh St., Las Vegas, NM 87701, phone 505-425-5204. Las Vegas Municipal Court is listed at 727 Grand Ave., Las Vegas, phone 505-425-9403, for municipal matters.
Use Case Lookup when the docket page does not answer the question. It can search by party name, driver license, date of birth, court type, location, filing date, and hearing date. District Court location 412 and Magistrate Court location 48 are the Las Vegas court-location options noted in the research. For full documents, use re:SearchNM if registered access applies or request records from the court that heard the case.