Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.54 · Article 4. Applications and Motions; Extending and Shortening Time
Motions
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
(a) Motion and opposition
(1) Except as these rules provide otherwise, a party wanting to make a motion in a reviewing court must serve and file a written motion stating the grounds and the relief requested and identifying any documents on which the motion is based.
(2) A motion must be accompanied by a memorandum and, if it is based on matters outside the record, by declarations or other supporting evidence.
(3) Any opposition must be served and filed within 15 days after the motion is filed.
(b) Disposition
(1) The court may rule on a motion at any time after an opposition or other response is filed or the time to oppose has expired.
(2) On a party's request or its own motion, the court may place a motion on calendar for a hearing. The clerk must promptly send each party a notice of the date and time of the hearing.
(c) Failure to oppose motion
A failure to oppose a motion may be deemed a consent to the granting of the motion.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
(Subd (a) amended effective January 1, 2007.)
Rule 8.54 amended and renumbered effective January 1, 2007; repealed and adopted as rule 41 effective January 1, 2005.
Advisory Committee Comment
Subdivision (a). A party other than the appellant or petitioner who files a motion or opposition to a motion may be required to pay a filing fee under Government Code sections 68926 or 68927 if the motion or opposition is the first document filed in the appeal or writ proceeding in the reviewing court by that party. See rule 8.25(c).
Subdivision (c). Subdivision (c) provides that a "failure to oppose a motion" may be deemed a consent to the granting of the motion. The provision is not intended to indicate a position on the question whether there is an implied right to a hearing to oppose a motion to dismiss an appeal.
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- https://courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index/eight/rule8_54
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