Cal. Rules of Court, rule 3.531 · Article 3. Petitions and Proceedings for Coordination of Complex Actions
Potential add-on case
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
(a) Notice
Any party to an included action in a pending petition for coordination must promptly provide notice of any potential add-on cases in which that party is also named or in which that party's attorney has appeared. The party must submit notice to the coordination motion judge and the Chair of the Judicial Council and serve it on each party appearing in the included actions in the pending petition and each party appearing in the potential add-on cases.
(b) Stipulation or order
By stipulation of all parties or order of the coordination motion judge, each potential add-on case will be deemed an included action for purposes of the hearing on the petition for coordination.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 3.531 renumbered effective January 1, 2007; adopted as rule 1531 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_531
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- 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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