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Contra Costa County Superior Court — Department 38 (Judge Barbara C. Hinton) Pre-Trial Order and Instructions (02/13/2024)

High confidence· verified October 8, 2026Judge PreferencesDepartment 38 (Judge Barbara C. Hinton) Pre-Trial Order and Instructions (02/13/2024), Superior Court of California, County of Contra Costa; posted on the court's General Probate Departments page (https://contracosta.courts.ca.gov/probate-departments) at https://contracosta.courts.ca.gov/system/files/general/dept38pre-trialorderandinstructionsdoc.pdf, fetched 2026-10-08.

Summary

Department 38's pre-trial order: discovery complete and expert witnesses disclosed 30 days before trial (CCP §2034.230); the non-expert witness list 14 days before; exhibits (pre-marked; not lodged in advance; copies for the witness) and trial briefs 7 days before; stipulations; service 7 days or fewer before trial; and court reporters (the Civil Protocols for Use of Private Pro Tempore Reporters packet).

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California > First Appellate District > Contra Costa County > Superior Court of California, County of Contra Costa > Department 38

Source of truth

PRE-TRIAL ORDER AND INSTRUCTIONS FOR DEPARTMENT 38 Before the trial of any issue, the parties are ordered to comply with following requirements. Failure to comply may result in sanctions, including issue sanctions. 30 davs be(ore the date set (or trial: Discovery: Discovery must be complete 30 days before trial, except that any expert witness may be deposed as late as 10 days before trial. Expert

Official source: Superior Court of California, County of Contra Costa — court website
Source health: Healthy · checked September 28, 2026
Effective date: February 13, 2024
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/dept38pre-trialorderandinstructionsdoc.pdf (154589 bytes, sha256 ef7bd1e807dfb4de25b46a57ec936687809a1388762f1f635857d839950ca322; 2 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): page 1 only (page 2 is a sample exhibit list, a form whose sample header names another department's judge). Attached to Judge Barbara C. Hinton: the card is Department 38's, where the court's Directory of Judicial Departments (effective September 14, 2026) seats Judge Barbara C. Hinton. Review note: The court's file is a converted scan whose printed glyphs carry the conversion's errors - "30 davs be(ore the date set (or trial:" (and the 14- and 7-day headings), "Ifyou", "be electronic mail or fax" and the doubled "attempt to stipulate and attempt to stipulate" - carded as printed. "(Local Rule)" is printed without a number.