Cal. Rules of Court, rule 2.103 · Chapter 1. Papers
Size, quality, and color of papers
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
All papers filed must be 8½ by 11 inches. All papers not filed electronically must be on opaque, unglazed paper, white or unbleached, of standard quality not less than 20-pound weight.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 2.103 amended effective January 1, 2017; adopted effective January 1, 2007; previously amended effective January 1, 2016.
Formatting
Corrected to the Judicial Council's PDF of the title: the rule page prints “81/2” where the PDF prints “8½”; shown as the PDF prints them.
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_103
- Text hash
- sha256 6f84d601b382384484d14f96d4405ecb6b6fd564af632dd47ec6cc40098593ef
- 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
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