Cal. Rules of Court, rule 3.502 · Article 1. General Provisions
Complex case-determination
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
The court must consider rule 3.400 et seq. in determining whether a case is or is not a complex case within the meaning of Code of Civil Procedure sections 403 and 404.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 3.502 amended and renumbered effective January 1, 2007; adopted as rule 1501.1 effective September 21, 1996; previously amended effective January 1, 2000; previously amended and renumbered as rule 1502 effective January 1, 2005.
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_502
- Text hash
- sha256 473a218c3cc4613b9ec2ff159da7a4fa5f5a6408948c3bd179be24d6730d7461
- 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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