Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.1002 · Division 6. Transfer of Appellate Division Cases to the Court of Appeal
Transfer authority
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
A Court of Appeal may order a case transferred to it for hearing and decision if it determines that transfer is necessary to secure uniformity of decision or to settle an important question of law. Transfer may be ordered on:
(1) Certification of the case for transfer by the superior court appellate division under rule 8.1005;
(2) Petition for transfer under rule 8.1006; or
(3) The Court of Appeal's own motion.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 8.1002 amended effective January 1, 2011; repealed and adopted as rule 62 effective January 1, 2003; previously amended and renumbered effective January 1, 2007.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_1002
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- 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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