Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.957 · Chapter 1. Trial of Small Claims Cases on Appeal
Record on appeal
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
Within five days after the filing of the notice of appeal and the payment of any fees required by law, the clerk of the small claims court must transmit the file and all related papers, including the notice of appeal, to the clerk of the court assigned to hear the appeal.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 8.957 renumbered effective January 1, 2009; adopted as rule 153 effective July 1, 1964; previously amended effective July 1, 1972, July 1, 1973, January 1, 1977, and January 1, 2005; amended and renumbered as rule 8.907 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_957
- Text hash
- sha256 10950f019e2262ffc0d5c963e03256d6ff31dfe8da4878f4c62dadf2da26a543
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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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