Cal. Rules of Court, rule 2.1006 · Chapter 1. Jury Service
Deferral of jury service
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Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
A prospective juror who is breastfeeding a child may request that jury service be deferred for up to one year, and may renew that request as long as the prospective juror is breastfeeding. If the request is made in writing, under penalty of perjury, the jury commissioner must grant it without requiring the prospective juror to appear at court.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 2.1006 amended effective July 1, 2026; adopted as rule 859 effective July 1, 2001; renumbered effective January 1, 2007
Source of truth
- Edition
- As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
- Official file
- https://courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index/two/rule2_1006
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- Composed by
- compose_crc.py 2026-10-22: the Judicial Council's rule pages read paragraph by paragraph; verify_crc.py's second reading of the Council's per-title PDFs finds every paragraph
- The Judicial Council's PDF of Title 2 (last modified January 27, 2026) prints this rule differently: where this page prints “prospective juror” the PDF prints “mother”; where this page prints “the prospective juror” the PDF prints “she”. The rule page's text is shown.
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