Cal. Rules of Court, rule 7.2301 · Article 4. Accountability
Order to show cause (§ 5979(b))
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
When a presiding judge or the presiding judge's designee issues an order to show cause why the county or other local government entity should not be fined for not complying with court orders, as provided in section 5979(b)(2)(A), the clerk must serve the order to show cause on the county or other local government entity and the parties and their counsel no fewer than 15 calendar days before the date set for hearing.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 7.2301 adopted effective September 1, 2023.
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/seven/rule7_2301
- Text hash
- sha256 1384c8339d9892e5bf57a27a273833e58f78c034af4ac40796af766dc8202f94
- 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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