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Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.1000 · Division 6. Transfer of Appellate Division Cases to the Court of Appeal

Application

Verbatim from the official edition

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

Rules 8.1000-8.1018 govern the transfer of cases within the appellate jurisdiction of the superior court-other than appeals in small claims cases-to the Court of Appeal. Unless the context requires otherwise, the term "case" as used in these rules means cases within that jurisdiction.

Notes and commentary — not rule text

History

Rule 8.1000 amended effective January 1, 2011; repealed and adopted as rule 61 effective January 1, 2003; previously amended and renumbered effective January 1, 2007.

Advisory Committee Comment

The rules in this division implement the authority of the Court of Appeal under Code of Civil Procedure section 911 and Penal Code section 1471 to order any case on appeal to a superior court in its district transferred to the Court of Appeal if it determines that transfer is necessary to secure uniformity of decision or to settle important questions of law.

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_1000
Text hash
sha256 ab8cbe80e33faa1cbd21ca2b6d5de9de30f2625878262484de9432f239c5267d
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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