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Cal. Rules of Court, rule 3.1382 · Division 12. Settlement

Good faith settlement and dismissal

Verbatim from the official edition

Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)

A motion or application for determination of good faith settlement may include a request to dismiss a pleading or a portion of a pleading. The notice of motion or application for determination of good faith settlement must list each party and pleading or portion of pleading affected by the settlement and the date on which the affected pleading was filed.

Notes and commentary — not rule text

History

Rule 3.1382 amended and renumbered effective January 1, 2007; adopted as rule 330 effective July 1, 1999.

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/three/rule3_1382
Text hash
sha256 e137debf44798014198794a6bff49dedb932abe8d87b543f49826327261e7665
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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