Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.1 · Article 1. In General
Title
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
The rules in this title may be referred to as the Appellate Rules. All references in this title to "these rules" are to the Appellate Rules.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 8.1 adopted effective January 1, 2007.
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/eight/rule8_1
- Text hash
- sha256 2beab2f9fcca6232e9e95adc673f612e0ca0a274cfd63e21e94e77d28514d79f
- 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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