Where a law requires an act no later than a specified number of days before a hearing, the last day is found by counting backward from the hearing date, excluding the day of the hearing as section 12 provides; days added for a particular method of service are counted backward from that day.
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(a) Where any law requires an act to be performed no later than a specified number of days before a hearing date, the last day to perform that act shall be determined by counting backward from the hearing date, excluding the day of the hearing as provided by Section 12. (b) Any additional days added to the specified number of days because of a particular method of service shall be computed by counting backward from the day determined in accordance with subdivision (a).
Verbatim from the Legislative Counsel's official weekly code archive (downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip, extract of 2026-10-18; LAW_SECTION_TBL row CCP12c.2010411, version id_5e6f07aa-0769-11e0-b6bd-e11061670e66; Added by Stats. 2010, Ch. 41, Sec. 1. (AB 2119) Effective January 1, 2011.). California parity Phase 4 (2026-10-22). The link is the section's page on the official site, which robots.txt closes to automated reads.
1 verbatim requirement on continuances in JEREMY I. FRANKER's division.
1 verbatim requirement on continuances.
Judge Weiss: case law and memos to chambers five business days before the hearing, and every exhibit a party intends to use listed on a notice of discovery and provided to the other side five business days out.