Cal. Rules of Court, rule 9.0 · Division 1. General Provisions
Title and source
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
(a) Title
The rules in this title may be referred to as the Rules on Law Practice, Attorneys, and Judges.
(b) Source
The rules in this title were adopted by the Supreme Court under its inherent authority over the admission and discipline of attorneys and under subdivisions (d) and (f) of section 18 of article VI of the Constitution of the State of California.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 9.0 amended and renumbered effective January 1, 2018; adopted as rule 9.1 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/nine/rule9_0
- Text hash
- sha256 a8ff3a7495fa599fc8680af815ee6d2f4665e5f796e4fbe9c03f1e411af939e1
- 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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