Cal. Rules of Court, rule 3.830 · Chapter 2. Judicial Arbitration
Arbitration not pursuant to rules
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
These rules do not prohibit the parties to any civil case or proceeding from entering into arbitration agreements under part 3, title 9 of the Code of Civil Procedure. Neither the ADR committee nor the ADR administrator may take any part in the conduct of an arbitration under an agreement not in conformity with these rules except that the administrator may, upon joint request of the parties, furnish the parties to the agreement with a randomly selected list of at least three names of members of the appropriate panel of arbitrators.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 3.830 amended and renumbered effective January 1, 2007; adopted as rule 1617 effective July 1, 1976; previously amended effective January 1, 2004.
Division 8, Alternative Dispute Resolution-Chapter 3, General Rules Relating to Mediation of Civil Cases-Article 1, Procedures for All Court Mediation Programs; adopted effective July 1, 2011.
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_830
- Text hash
- sha256 61555e0f77012f849927f6ea9da4323bbff73855b16df2df1c387a3f6f33fc27
- 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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