Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.81 · Article 6. Public Access to Electronic Appellate Court Records
Application and scope
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
(a) Application
The rules in this article apply only to records of the Supreme Court and Courts of Appeal.
(b) Access by parties and attorneys
The rules in this article apply only to access to court records by the public. They do not limit access to court records by a party to an action or proceeding, by the attorney of a party, or by other persons or entities that are entitled to access by statute or rule.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 8.81 adopted effective January 1, 2016.
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_81
- Text hash
- sha256 c0ff7c11d29bc2893824ffadee6e69ad10f506358ae925d4d96636885ee8715f
- 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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