Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.20 · Article 1. In General
California Rules of Court prevail
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
A Court of Appeal must accept for filing a record, brief, or other document that complies with the California Rules of Court despite any local rule imposing other requirements.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 8.20 amended and renumbered effective January 1, 2007; repealed and adopted as rule 80 effective January 1, 2005.
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_20
- Text hash
- sha256 4c9c9a4bc5868f975d7cdbf201fcc769ce219d6b09cbccdd237acfc9a8c8bacc
- 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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