Cal. Rules of Court, rule 2.1058 · Chapter 4. Jury Instructions
Use of gender-neutral language in jury instructions
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
All instructions submitted to the jury must be written in gender-neutral language. If standard jury instructions (CALCRIM and CACI) are to be submitted to the jury, the court or, at the court's request, counsel must recast the instructions as necessary to ensure that gender-neutral language is used in each instruction.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 2.1058 amended and renumbered effective January 1, 2007; adopted as rule 989 effective January 1, 1991.
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_1058
- Text hash
- sha256 16ff4d3a08a794504c8126ff65001b4467b39721dbb629c6370f04ac4b7b0aa0
- 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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