What Is a Court Docket in Cibola County
A docket is a schedule or chronological case record, depending on the context. The District and Magistrate docket pages maintained by the Thirteenth Judicial District focus on hearings scheduled for the current day plus six days into the future. A case docket inside Case Lookup is broader: it can show filings, hearing settings, continuances, orders, judgments, and dispositions that mark how a case has moved through court.
Cibola County docket searches should begin with the court that has the case. District Court handles general-jurisdiction matters such as felony criminal cases, larger civil cases, divorce, domestic relations, protection orders, and contested probate matters. Magistrate Court handles traffic, misdemeanors, DWI/DUI, landlord-tenant matters, lower-dollar civil cases, and felony preliminary proceedings. Grants Municipal Court and Milan Municipal Court handle local ordinance, traffic, petty misdemeanor, and DWI/DUI matters inside their municipal limits, but municipal court data in statewide Case Lookup is limited under New Mexico Courts policy.
Cibola District Court Docket
The Cibola County District Court docket page is the official short-window hearing schedule for District Court in Grants. The research captured the page as showing hearings for the current day plus six days in the future, with a court disclaimer that hearing details may contain omissions and that the court makes no warranty regarding the information. If a hearing cannot be found, or if the user needs additional hearing information, the page directs users to contact the court.
District Court is the correct docket source for felony criminal cases once filed in District Court, major civil actions, divorce and family proceedings, domestic relations, protection-order matters subject to public-access limits, and contested probate litigation. The District Court address is 700 E. Roosevelt Ave., Suite 60, Grants, NM 87020. The court phone is 505-287-8831, and the court email captured for filing or counter contact is gradcounter@nmcourts.gov.
Cibola Magistrate Court Docket
The Cibola County Magistrate Court docket page is the corresponding short-window schedule for the Magistrate Court in Grants. It also displays the current day plus six future days and carries the same practical warning: a missing listing is not proof that no hearing exists, and the court should be contacted for current details. Magistrate Court is often the first court users need for traffic citations, misdemeanors, DWI/DUI, landlord-tenant matters, lower-level civil disputes, and preliminary felony settings.
Cibola County Magistrate Court is located at 114 McBride Road, Suite B, Grants, NM 87020. The phone number is 505-285-4605, and the email captured in the research is gramadmin@nmcourts.gov. Because magistrate cases can involve fast-moving arraignments, bond settings, traffic deadlines, and failure-to-appear consequences, direct court contact is important when the online docket and a paper notice do not match.
The official Cibola County Magistrate Court docket page is the source for the Magistrate hearing schedule.
The Magistrate docket is most useful when the hearing is soon and the court level is already known.
How to Find Cibola County Dockets Online
Use the District or Magistrate public docket page first when the goal is an upcoming hearing in the next week. Use New Mexico Case Lookup when the user needs to search by party name, case number, filing date, or hearing date across court data. Case Lookup is not a complete document system, but it can help identify the court, case number, case status, and hearing information needed for a clerk call or records request.
- Decide whether the matter belongs to District Court, Magistrate Court, Grants Municipal Court, Milan Municipal Court, or another court.
- Open the relevant Cibola District or Magistrate docket page for hearings in the current day plus six-day window.
- If the hearing is not in that window, search New Mexico Case Lookup by name or complete case number.
- Enable Date Search in Case Lookup when the search needs filing-date or hearing-date filters.
- Contact the listed court when a notice, bond condition, or online schedule conflicts with the docket display.
Hearing Date Search Fields
Case Lookup's name search includes date filters that can be set to filing date or hearing date. These fields are useful when a party name is common, when the case number is unknown, or when the user is trying to confirm a scheduled hearing after receiving a notice. The hearing-date search is still an electronic case-data search, so it does not replace a court's direct confirmation.
| Field Label | Type | Use |
|---|---|---|
| Date Search | Checkbox | Enables the date-range section on the name-search screen. |
| Date Type | Radio button | Selects Filing Date or Hearing Date. |
| Date From Month / Day / Year | Dropdowns and text | Sets the beginning of the hearing-date or filing-date range. |
| Date To Month / Day / Year | Dropdowns and text | Sets the end of the date range. |
| Court Type | Dropdown | Limits results to District, Magistrate, Metropolitan, or Municipal court. |
| Court Location | Dynamic dropdown | Can narrow to Cibola-relevant Grants or Milan court locations when available. |
| Results | Dropdown | Controls how many results are returned, with captured options from 10 to 50. |
Docket Entry Fields and Gaps
The research did not capture a live sample Cibola docket entry from Case Lookup, so no sample docket-entry inventory should be invented. The documented record fields from Section 6 are still useful for reading a docket: court type, court location, case number, case category, party names, filing date, hearing date, case style, docket entries, and case status.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Hearing Date | The scheduled appearance date, which may be searched or shown on the short-window court docket pages. |
| Court Location | The court and place handling the matter, such as Grants District, Grants Magistrate, Grants Municipal, or Milan Municipal. |
| Case Number | The tracking number needed for Case Lookup, clerk calls, payments, or records requests. |
| Docket Entry | A filed pleading, setting, order, notice, continuance, judgment, or other court event. |
| Disposition | The outcome of a case or charge when the docket has reached a final or reportable event. |
Documented gap: No official Cibola-specific sample docket entry was inspected in the captured research. Use the official field inventory and the court's current docket display rather than assuming additional fields.
Courts That Publish Dockets in Cibola County
The strongest official docket sources captured are the Thirteenth Judicial District's Cibola District Court docket page and Cibola Magistrate Court docket page. The research did not find equivalent official public docket calendars for Grants Municipal Court or Milan Municipal Court. Those municipal courts should be contacted directly for local traffic, ordinance, petty misdemeanor, and DWI/DUI scheduling.
- Cibola County District Court: felony, civil, divorce, family, protection-order, and contested probate hearing schedules.
- Cibola County Magistrate Court: traffic, misdemeanor, DWI/DUI, landlord-tenant, lower-level civil, and preliminary felony settings.
- Grants Municipal Court: local municipal matters at 105 Roosevelt Ave. Ste. B; phone 505-287-3835.
- Milan Municipal Court: village municipal matters at 630 Uranium Avenue; phone 505-285-9841.
The Cibola County detention bond information page links court contacts that help route bond and hearing questions after arrest.
That contact list is important when a docket question is tied to bond, custody, or a first appearance rather than a routine civil setting.
Docket vs. Full Case Record
A docket is best for tracking activity. It can tell whether a case has a hearing, whether something was filed, or whether a disposition has been entered. A full case record may include the actual complaint, petition, motion, order, judgment, sentence, exhibits where public, and other documents. New Mexico Courts states that public Case Lookup does not provide documents, so a docket result should not be treated as the complete file.
| Docket | Full Case Record | |
|---|---|---|
| Format | Schedule or chronological entries | Case documents plus docket data when accessible |
| Access | Public docket pages or Case Lookup | re:SearchNM, clerk inspection, copies, or IPRA request |
| Use | Confirm court dates and case progress | Review pleadings, orders, judgments, and certified records |
| Limit | May omit details or change quickly | May be restricted, sealed, or unavailable online |
How to Read a Cibola County Docket
Read the court name first. A Grants municipal matter, a Magistrate Court traffic case, and a District Court felony can involve the same person but different case numbers, court rules, payment channels, and hearing calendars. Next, check the case number and hearing date. Case-number structure in Case Lookup uses court type, court location, case category, and case number, so a partial number may not be enough for the clerk to identify the file quickly.
Finally, separate hearing information from outcome information. A scheduled arraignment, motion hearing, or status conference does not prove conviction or judgment. Disposition, sentence, dismissal, judgment, or closed status are the outcome fields to look for. Juvenile criminal cases, Family Violence Protection Act order-of-protection cases, sealed cases, and some confidential case categories should not be expected to appear in public docket searches.