Cal. Rules of Court, rule 3.700 · Chapter 1. General Provisions
Scope and purpose of the case management rules
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
The rules in this division are to be construed and administered to secure the fair, timely, and efficient disposition of every civil case. The rules are to be applied in a fair, practical, and flexible manner so as to achieve the ends of justice.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 3.700 amended and renumbered effective January 1, 2007; adopted as rule 204 effective January 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_700
- Text hash
- sha256 85ac893c32bd15c64ec1d8ed6a935ddf82a7e6ff2ce9141a31193a79a51042af
- 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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