Cal. Rules of Court, rule 2.115 · Chapter 1. Papers
Hole punching
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
When papers are not filed electronically, each paper presented for filing must contain two prepunched normal-sized holes, centered 2½ inches apart and 5/8 inch from the top of the paper.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 2.115 amended effective January 1, 2016; adopted effective January 1, 2007.
Formatting
Corrected to the Judicial Council's PDF of the title: the rule page prints “21/2” where the PDF prints “2½”; 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_115
- Text hash
- sha256 e76f31eb3f11ff71e84d92de8b266d676e4265f3e049bd43ba4a8889860f4be7
- 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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