Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.18 · Article 1. In General
Documents violating rules not to be filed
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
Except as these rules provide otherwise, the reviewing court clerk must not file any record or other document that does not conform to these rules.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 8.18 amended and renumbered effective January 1, 2007; repealed and adopted as rule 46 effective January 1, 2005.
Advisory Committee Comment
The exception in this rule acknowledges that there are different rules that apply to certain nonconforming documents. For example, this rule does not apply to nonconforming or late briefs, which are addressed by rules 8.204(e) and 8.220(a), respectively, or to nonconforming supporting documents accompanying a writ petition under chapter 7, which are addressed by rule 8.486(c)(2).
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_18
- Text hash
- sha256 3585185780c14d10d1e07026e9f937079c01311a453ba7eef41a65c55df202d2
- 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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