Cal. Rules of Court, rule 3.765 · Chapter 6. Management of Class Actions
Class action order
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
(a) Class described
An order certifying, amending, or modifying a class must contain a description of the class and any subclasses.
(b) Limited issues and subclasses
When appropriate, an action may be maintained as a class action limited to particular issues. A class may be divided into subclasses.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 3.765 renumbered effective January 1, 2007; adopted as rule 1855 effective January 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_765
- Text hash
- sha256 71c6b9e8d026589dd006337dd554e1a3e1cbb961bd2f830ddbe5a3bbf8b2a83a
- 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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