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Contra Costa County Superior Court — Department 32 (Judge Joni T. Hiramoto) Instructions for Issue Conference

High confidence· verified October 8, 2026Judge PreferencesDepartment 32 (Judge Joni T. Hiramoto) Instructions for Issue Conference, Superior Court of California, County of Contra Costa; posted on the court's General Civil Departments page (https://contracosta.courts.ca.gov/divisions/civil/general-civil-departments) at https://contracosta.courts.ca.gov/system/files/general/d32-orders-issue-conference-1_0.pdf, fetched 2026-10-08.

Summary

Department 32's issue conference instructions (attendance in person): exhibit lists exchanged one month before and met and conferred three weeks before; the trial brief five court days before the Issue Conference with tabbed sections - the statement of the case, motions in limine (served 10 court days before; answers 3 court days before), the witness list, the trial estimate, the court reporter, the exhibit list (a Word table), witness availability (trials Mondays through Thursdays), interpreters, CACI jury instructions and the proposed verdict form.

Applies to

California > First Appellate District > Contra Costa County > Superior Court of California, County of Contra Costa > Department 32

Source of truth

Instructions for Issue Conference in Dept. 32. All parties are required to attend the Issue Conference in person. Exhibit Lists: [1] One month prior to Issue Conference: parties must exchange Exhibit Lists, as described below. [2] Three weeks prior to the Issue Conference date, the parties must meet and confer (or begin to meet and confer) regarding stipulations to the admissibility of each exhibi

Official source: Superior Court of California, County of Contra Costa — court website
Source health: Healthy · checked September 28, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: October 8, 2026benchpath-ca-t4-contra-costa-2026-10-08

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-08 (California T4 Contra Costa build 2026-10-08) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-contra-costa/docs/general/d32-orders-issue-conference-1_0.pdf (85167 bytes, sha256 781cdf722f3b58f5687dc76c8695a32130b6f6db2b582616921235b0eedc20b3; 4 pages) with the shared verbatim composer (v2 reflow): page marks and running headers or footers removed as chrome; lines reflowed into the document's paragraphs; proof 1 (whitespace-only) and proof 2 (same character multiset as the text layer minus chrome) pass. Documented settings (whitespace-only or same-character changes; the proofs hold): the text layer's “fi” ligature (U+FB01) read as the letters f and i (the composer's glyph_map). Attached to Judge Joni T. Hiramoto: the card is Department 32's, where the court's Directory of Judicial Departments (effective September 14, 2026) seats Judge Joni T. Hiramoto.