Cal. Rules of Court, rule 2.1032 · Chapter 2. Conduct of Trial
Juror notebooks in complex civil cases
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
A trial judge should encourage counsel in complex civil cases to include key documents, exhibits, and other appropriate materials in notebooks for use by jurors during trial to assist them in performing their duties.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 2.1032 adopted effective January 1, 2007.
Advisory Committee Comment
While this rule is intended to apply to complex civil cases, there may be other types of civil cases in which notebooks may be appropriate or useful. Resources, including guidelines for use and recommended notebook contents, are available in Bench Handbook: Jury Management (CJER, rev. 2006, p. 59).
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_1032
- Text hash
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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
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