Cal. Rules of Court, rule 3.2106 · Chapter 1. Trial Rules
Venue challenge
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
A defendant may challenge venue by writing to the court. The defendant is not required to personally appear at the hearing on the venue challenge. If the court denies the challenge and the defendant is not present, the hearing must be continued to another appropriate date. The parties must be given notice of the venue determination and hearing date.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 3.2106 amended and renumbered effective January 1, 2007; adopted as rule 1704 effective July 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/three/rule3_2106
- Text hash
- sha256 030a868900397bf603affccf1d345aa109b3374049e608cfda97b2d24b143340
- 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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