California Court Rules
California Court Rules
✓ current as of July 2026Full text of 336 rules across 1 sets, cross-linked with California case law.
Cal. R. Ct. — 336 rules
- Title
- Application of division
- Construction
- Definitions and use of terms
- Scope of rules
- Amendments to rules
- Amendments to statutes
- Documents violating rules not to be filed
- California Rules of Court prevail
- Sanctions to compel compliance
- Service, filing, and filing fees
- Waiver of fees and costs
- Service on nonparty public officer or agency
- Address and other contact information of record; notice of change
- Substituting parties; substituting or withdrawing attorneys
- Cover requirements for documents filed in paper form
- Protection of privacy in documents and records
- Requirements for signatures of multiple parties on filed documents
- Number of copies of filed documents
- General provisions
- Sealed records
- Confidential records
- Applications
- Motions
- Motions before the record is filed
- Extending time
- Policies and factors governing extensions of time
- Tolling or extending time because of public emergency
- Shortening time
- Application, construction, and definitions
- Electronic filing
- Responsibilities of court and electronic filer
- Contracts with electronic filing service providers
- Format of electronic documents
- Requirements for signatures on documents
- Payment of filing fees
- Actions by court on receipt of electronically submitted document; date and time of filing
- Electronic service
- Court order requiring electronic service
- Statement of purpose
- Application and scope
- Definitions
- Public access
- Limitations and conditions
- Fees for copies of electronic records
- Privacy in opinions
- Filing the appeal
- Time to appeal
- Extending the time to appeal
- Petition for writ of supersedeas
- Request for writ of supersedeas or temporary stay
- Record on appeal
- Notice designating the record on appeal
- Clerk's transcript
- Record of administrative proceedings
- Appendixes
- Superior court file instead of clerk's transcript
- Reporter's transcript
- Agreed statement
- Settled statement
- Failure to procure the record
- Form of the record
- Record in multiple or later appeals in same case
- When the record is complete
- Filing the record
- Lending the record
- Augmenting and correcting the record
- Presumption from the record
- Briefs by parties and amici curiae
- Contents and format of briefs
- Certificate of Interested Entities or Persons
- Service and filing of briefs
- Appeals in which a party is both appellant and respondent
- Failure to file a brief
- Transmitting exhibits
- Calendar preference
- Settlement, abandonment, voluntary dismissal, and compromise
- Prehearing conference
- Judicial notice; findings and evidence on appeal
- New Authorities
- Oral argument and submission of the cause
- Opinions [Reserved]
- Filing, finality, and modification of decision
- Rehearing
- Remittitur
- Sanctions
- Costs on appeal
- Appointment of appellate counsel by the Court of Appeal
- Filing the appeal; certificate of probable cause
- Time to appeal
- Stay of execution and release on appeal
- Abandoning the appeal
- Normal record; exhibits
- Application in superior court for addition to normal record
- Confidential records [Repealed]
- Juror-identifying information
- Preparing, certifying, and sending the record
- Augmenting or correcting the record in the Court of Appeal
- Agreed statement
- Settled statement
- Briefs by parties and amici curiae
- Certificate of interested entities or persons
- Hearing and decision in the Court of Appeal
- Hearing and decision in the Supreme Court
- Petition for writ of habeas corpus filed by petitioner not represented by an attorney
- Petition for writ of habeas corpus filed by an attorney for a party
- Proceedings after the petition is filed
- Proceedings if the return is ordered to be filed in the reviewing court
- Decision in habeas corpus proceedings
- Appeal from order granting relief by writ of habeas corpus
- Application
- Qualifications and appointment of counsel by the Court of Appeal
- Filing the appeal; certificate of appealability
- Time to appeal
- Stay of execution on appeal
- Record on appeal
- Briefs by parties and amici curiae
- Claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel not raised in the superior court
- Finality
- Application
- Confidentiality
- Right to appointment of appellate counsel and prerequisites for appeal
- Stay pending appeal
- Filing the appeal
- Time to appeal
- Record on appeal
- Record in multiple appeals in the same case
- Preparing and sending the record
- Augmenting and correcting the record in the reviewing court
- Abandoning the appeal
- Briefs by parties and amici curiae
- Appeals from all terminations of parental rights; dependency appeals in Orange, Imperial, and San Diego Counties and in other counties by local rule
- Appeals from orders transferring a minor from juvenile court to a court of criminal jurisdiction
- Notice of intent to file writ petition to review order setting hearing under Welfare and Institutions Code section 366.26
- Writ petition to review order setting hearing under Welfare and Institutions Code section 366.26
- Notice of intent to file writ petition under Welfare and Institutions Code section 366.28 to review order designating specific placement of a dependent child after termination of parental rights
- Writ petition under Welfare and Institutions Code section 366.28 to review order designating or denying specific placement of a dependent child after termination of parental rights
- Hearing and decision in the Court of Appeal
- Hearing and decision in the Supreme Court
- Procedures and data
- Appeal from order establishing conservatorship
- Appeal from judgment authorizing conservator to consent to sterilization of conservatee
- Appeal from order of civil commitment
- Application
- Petitions
- Opposition and amicus curiae briefs
- Certificate of Interested Entities or Persons
- Notice to trial court
- Filing, finality, and modification of decisions; rehearing; remittitur
- Responsive pleading under Code of Civil Procedure section 418.10
- Sanctions
- Costs
- Review of California Environmental Quality Act cases under Public Resources Code sections 21178-21189.3 [Repealed]
- Petition for review
- Form and contents of petition, answer, and reply
- Petition for review to exhaust state remedies
- Ordering review
- Issues on review
- Briefs by parties and amici curiae; judicial notice
- Oral argument and submission of the cause
- Disposition
- Filing, finality, and modification of decision
- Rehearing
- Remittitur
- Costs and sanctions
- Decision on request of a court of another jurisdiction
- Transfer for decision
- Definitions
- In general
- Qualifications of counsel in death penalty appeals
- General provisions
- Contents and form of the record
- Juror-identifying information
- Preparing and certifying the record of preliminary proceedings
- Preparing the trial record
- Certifying the trial record for completeness
- Certifying the trial record for accuracy
- Briefs by parties and amicus curiae
- Applications to file overlength briefs in appeals from a judgment of death
- Transmitting exhibits; augmenting the record in the Supreme Court
- Oral argument and submission of the cause
- Filing, finality, and modification of decision; rehearing; remittitur
- Qualifications of counsel in death penalty-related habeas corpus proceedings
- Definitions and application
- Filing and service
- Appeals
- Writ proceedings
- Court of Appeal costs in certain streamlined CEQA projects
- Application
- Filing and service
- Notice of appeal
- Record on appeal
- Superior court clerk duties
- Briefing
- Oral argument
- Extensions of time
- Review of Workers' Compensation Appeals Board cases
- Review of Public Utilities Commission cases
- Review of Agricultural Labor Relations Board and Public Employment Relations Board cases
- Filing, modification, and finality of decision; remittitur
- Application of division and scope of rules
- Construction
- Definitions
- Requirements for signatures on documents
- Amendments to rules and statutes
- Applications
- Motions
- Judicial notice
- Extending time
- Policies and factors governing extensions of time
- Relief from default
- Shortening time
- Substituting parties; substituting or withdrawing attorneys
- Form of filed documents
- Address and other contact information of record; notice of change
- Service and filing
- Waiver of fees and costs
- Sealed records
- Application of chapter
- Notice of appeal
- Time to appeal
- Extending the time to appeal
- Writ of supersedeas
- Abandonment, voluntary dismissal, and compromise
- Record on appeal
- Notice designating the record on appeal
- Clerk's transcript
- Trial court file instead of clerk's transcript
- Reporter's transcript
- Record when trial proceedings were officially electronically recorded
- Agreed statement
- Statement on appeal
- Form of the record
- Record in multiple appeals
- Completion and filing of the record
- Augmenting and correcting the record in the appellate division
- Failure to procure the record
- Transmitting exhibits
- Appendixes
- Application of chapter
- Appointment of appellate counsel
- Notice of appeal
- Time to appeal
- Stay of execution and release on appeal
- Abandoning the appeal
- Normal record on appeal
- Contents of clerk's transcript
- Preparation of clerk's transcript
- Trial court file instead of clerk's transcript
- Record of oral proceedings
- Contents of reporter's transcript
- Preparation of reporter's transcript
- Limited normal record in certain appeals
- Record when trial proceedings were officially electronically recorded
- Statement on appeal
- Exhibits
- Juror-identifying information
- Sending and filing the record in the appellate division
- Augmenting or correcting the record in the appellate division
- Failure to procure the record
- Application
- Notice of briefing schedule
- Briefs by parties and amici curiae
- Contents and form of briefs
- Appeals in which a party is both appellant and respondent
- Oral argument
- Submission of the cause
- Decisions
- Finality and modification of decision
- Rehearing
- Remittitur
- Costs and sanctions in civil appeals
- Application of chapter
- Notice of appeal
- Time to appeal
- Stay of execution on appeal
- Abandoning the appeal
- Normal record on appeal
- Prosecuting attorney's notice regarding the record
- Contents of clerk's transcript
- Preparation of clerk's transcript
- Trial court file instead of clerk's transcript
- Record of oral proceedings
- Statement on appeal
- Record when trial proceedings were officially electronically recorded
- Contents of reporter's transcript
- Preparation of reporter's transcript
- Limited normal record in certain appeals
- Exhibits
- Sending and filing the record in the appellate division
- Augmenting or correcting the record in the appellate division
- Failure to procure the record
- General application of chapter 4
- Notice of briefing schedule
- Briefs
- Contents and form of briefs
- Oral argument
- Application
- Petitions filed by persons not represented by an attorney
- Petitions filed by an attorney for a party
- Opposition
- Notice to trial court
- Filing, finality, and modification of decisions; rehearing; remittitur
- Costs
- Application
- Definitions
- Filing the appeal
- Record on appeal
- Continuances
- Abandonment, dismissal, and judgment for failure to bring to trial
- Examination of witnesses
- Application
- Definitions
- Petitions filed by persons not represented by an attorney
- Petitions filed by an attorney for a party
- Opposition
- Notice to small claims court
- Filing, finality, and modification of decisions; remittitur
- Costs
- Application
- Transfer authority
- Certification for transfer by the appellate division
- Petition for transfer
- Transmitting record to Court of Appeal
- Order for transfer
- Renumbered effective January 1, 2011
- Briefs and argument
- Proceedings in the appellate division after certification or transfer
- Disposition of transferred case
- Finality and remittitur
- Authority
- Publication of appellate opinions
- Partial publication
- Citation of opinions
- Requesting publication of unpublished opinions
- Requesting depublication of published opinions