Skip to main content

Cal. Rules of Court, rule 3.734 · Chapter 3. Case Management

Assignment to one judge for all or limited purposes

Verbatim from the official edition

Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)

The presiding judge may, on the noticed motion of a party or on the court's own motion, order the assignment of any case to one judge for all or such limited purposes as will promote the efficient administration of justice.

Notes and commentary — not rule text

History

Rule 3.734 amended and renumbered effective January 1, 2007; adopted as rule 213 effective January 1, 1985; previously amended effective July 1, 2002.

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_734
Text hash
sha256 7cd0b7c37532f6e1110e30c1fadd0074757c2d56b66f4d4fbd603121831030b6
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

Procedural information only. Not legal advice and not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. Confirm the current text with the official publisher before relying on it.