Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.153 · Article 2. Record on Appeal
Lending the record
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
(a) Request
Within 20 days after the record is filed in the reviewing court, a party that has not purchased its own copy of the record may request another party, in writing, to lend it that party's copy of the record. The other party must then lend its copy of the record when it serves its brief.
(b) Time to return
The borrowing party must return the copy of the record when it serves its brief or the time to file its brief has expired.
(c) Cost
The borrowing party must bear the cost of sending the copy of the record to and from the borrowing party.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 8.153 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_153
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- 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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