Cal. Rules of Court, rule 3.401 · Chapter 5. Complex Cases
Complex case designation
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
A plaintiff may designate an action as a complex case by filing and serving with the initial complaint the Civil Case Cover Sheet (form CM-010) marked to indicate that the action is a complex case.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 3.401 renumbered effective January 1, 2007; adopted as rule 1810 effective January 1, 2000; previously amended effective July 1, 2002, and July 1, 2004.
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_401
- Text hash
- sha256 a0c36334b4a94509b73a873280b0bc98098db16f2ab6ba70d985aa5e528f1096
- 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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