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Chapter 4 (Rules 2.50 to 2.54): electronic recording (Rule 2.50); the Notice of Availability of Court Reporting Services (Rule 2.51); unavailability of court-provided court reporters and procurement of outside private reporters - the meet and confer and the proposed order on Form CV-311 (Rule 2.52); court-provided court reporters in cases involving fee waiver litigants (Rule 2.53); and transcripts and electronic recording (Rule 2.54).
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Chapter 4. Court Reporting Services Rule 2.50. Electronic Recording Pursuant to Government Code section 69957, in limited civil actions and criminal misdemeanor and infraction proceedings, the court, at its sole discretion, may utilize electronic recording as a means of generating a verbatim record of proceedings. In those instances, court reporters will not be provided. Electronic recording may also be used as permitted by the General Order re: Use of Electronic Recording Equipment. (Rule 2.50 revised effective 1/1/26) Rule 2.51. Notice of Availability of Court Reporting Services General information concerning the availability of court reporters is set forth in the Court’s Notice of Availability of Court Reporting Services, which is posted in the Clerk’s Office and on the Court’s website. (Rule 2.51 renumbered and revised effective 1/1/19) Rule 2.52. Unavailability of Court-Provided Court Reporters and Procurement of Outside Private Reporters (a) Rule 2.52, subsections (b), (c), and (d) shall not apply to any proceeding for which a timely request for a court-provided court reporter has been received from a litigant who has been granted a fee waiver under Government Code section 68631 et seq. (b) Unavailability of court reporters by case type Unless otherwise noted in the Court’s Notice of Availability, pursuant to California Rules of Court, Rule 2.956, the Court does not provide court reporters for hearings in the following civil case types: (1) Unlimited and Limited Civil (2) Probate (c) Procurement of private court reporter For matters where the court does not provide a court reporter due to unavailability, any party who desires a verbatim record of a court proceeding from which a transcript can later be prepared, may procure the services of a private certified court reporter pro tempore to report any scheduled hearing or trial (see Government Code section 70044 and California Rules of Court, Rule 2.956). The Court does not provide referrals to private court reporting service providers and does not have any contractual or employment obligation related to pro tempore reporters hired by the parties for this purpose. It is the party’s responsibility to arrange for and pay the outside reporter’s fee for attendance at the proceedings but the expense may be recoverable as part of the costs, as provided by law. (See California Rules of Court, Rule 2.956(c).) (d) Requirement to meet and confer to select court reporter For contested matters, the parties must meet timely and confer as to the selection of a qualified court reporter and, at the time of the proceeding to be reported, the party procuring the qualified court reporter must provide a proposed order appointing the reporter on Form CV-311 for the Court’s signature (see Government Code sections 68086 and 70044). (1) The reporter must be licensed as a Certified Shorthand Reporter in California and comply with all California statutory and rule provisions for reporting court proceedings. The court reporter pro tempore must provide their name, CSR number, business address, phone number, and e-mail address to the courtroom clerk and all parties present on the day of the hearing in the event of an appeal or if a party wishes to procure a transcript from the reporter (see California Rules of Court, Rule 2.950). (2) The court reporter pro tempore must execute the court’s required written agreement as to the obligations of the court reporter in accepting the reporting assignment. (3) If court reporters become available and at the court’s discretion are provided by the court for any civil hearings (including family law and probate matters), the parties will be required to pay the applicable reporter attendance fee provided for in Government Code sections 68086(a)(1)(A) and (B) in a timely manner, except any party who has been granted a fee waiver under Government Code section 68631 et seq. (Rule 2.52(d) revised effective 7/1/19) Rule 2.53. Court-Provided Court Reporters in Cases Involving Fee Waiver Litigants Upon receipt of a timely request from a litigant who has been granted a fee waiver under Government Code section 68631 et seq., the Court shall provide a court reporter as follows. In all such instances, parties who have not been granted a fee waiver will be required to pay any applicable court reporter attendance fee, pursuant to Government Code section 68086. (a) Unlimited Civil Cases (1) Case Management Conferences. A request for a court-provided court reporter is timely if it is made three or more calendar days before the case management conference is to be held. The request must be made by filing Local Court Form MC-30. (2) Law and Motion Hearings. A request for a court-provided court reporter is timely if it is made at or before 4:00 p.m. on the court day preceding the hearing. The request may be made by e-mail, fax, or telephone to the department holding the hearing. The Court will not provide a court reporter for any law and motion hearing where the tentative ruling has not been contested. (3) Issue Conferences. A request for a court-provided court reporter is timely if it is made three or more calendar days before the issue conference is to be held. The request must be made by filing Local Court Form MC-30. (4) Trials. A request for a court-provided court reporter should be made at the issue conference. A request for a court-provided court reporter otherwise is timely if it is made on Local Court Form MC-30 three calendar days before trial is scheduled to begin. (5) All Other Proceedings. A request for a court-provided court reporter is timely if filed on Local Court Form MC-30 at least three calendar days before the scheduled date of the proceeding. (6) Continuances. Failure to timely request a court reporter pursuant to these rules shall not, standing alone, constitute grounds to continue any proceeding, absent good cause shown. (b) Probate Cases (1) Requests. A request for a court-provided court reporter is timely if received by 4:00 p.m. on the court day preceding the hearing. The request must be made on Local Court Form MC-30, and can be sent to the department hearing the matter by fax or e-mail. (2) Continuances. If, in the exercise of due diligence, a litigant would not have been able to ascertain that a proceeding would be contested in time to make a timely request under Local Rule 2.53(c)(1), and that litigant has been granted a fee waiver under Government Code section 68631 et seq., the court may grant a continuance so that a court-provided court reporter may be provided. (c) Enlargement of Time During Staff Shortages During periods of staff shortages when the Clerk’s Office may be unable to meet all of the court reporting requests and requirements that are pending, the Clerk of the Court may enlarge the periods during which a request for a court-provided court reporter may be deemed timely. Any such change to the periods will be posted in the Notice of Availability of Court Reporting Services (referenced in Rule 2.51) at least three calendar days before the effective date of any modifications to Rule 2.53, subdivisions (a), (b), and (c). The change may be effective for no more than five calendar days, after which the time periods specified under Rule 2.53, subdivisions (a), (b), and (c) will be restored. (Rule 2.53 revised 1/1/20) Rule 2.54. Transcripts and Electronic Recording Whenever a party requests a court reporter to furnish a transcript of all or a part of a trial or proceedings, the reporter shall immediately inform all other parties of such request and inquire whether any party desires a copy of the transcript. Parties shall be responsible for all transcript costs listed in Government Code section 69953. If a proceeding has been electronically recorded pursuant to Government Code section 69957 and Local Rule 2.50, the parties to such proceeding may obtain a copy of the recording at Court Records. Parties will be responsible for all associated fees and costs. (Rule 2.54 revised and renumbered effective 1/1/19)
Chapter 4. Court Reporting Services Rule 2.50. Electronic Recording Pursuant to Government Code section 69957, in limited civil actions and criminal misdemeanor and infraction proceedings, the court, at its sole discretion, may utilize electronic recording as a means of generating a verbatim record of proceedings. In those instances, court reporters will not be provided. Electronic recording may a
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-08 (California T4 Contra Costa build 2026-10-08) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-contra-costa/docs/general/july-2026-local-rules-final_0.pdf (the court's rule book, “Local Rules of Court Effective July 1, 2026”, as fetched 2026-10-08; 24267831 bytes, sha256 580a7d67b663a29aea78edf6b7d0fffb19be65430ad0770cad9f8cb543be811e; 274 pages) with the shared verbatim composer (v2 reflow) over the rules (PDF pages 17 to 191): each page's running header (“Local Rules of the Superior Court of California, County of Contra Costa”) and footer (a rule of underscores, “Local Court Rules – Effective July 1, 2026” and “Page N of 201”) removed as chrome; lines reflowed into the rules' paragraphs; Title One's heading and its first chapter heading set on their own lines, eleven rule citations the reflow broke at a line end rejoined, and six tables printed without rules set one row a line - Rule 2.40's attorney fee schedule, two cells of Guideline Attachment 1's commission chart, Attachment 2's attorney rates, Attachment 3's time summary and Attachment 4(a)'s probate calendars (18 whitespace-only fixes); Rule 2.160's local fees and the commission chart's header cells and sixth row, which the reflow read across, set as printed (three same-character fixes); the sixth row's number, in page 180's bottom band, kept (the composer's bottom_band_numbers option); no struck character (the strike report); the rules cut at the chapter headings, which reassemble them (Title Six is “Reserved”: its heading alone); proof 1 (whitespace-only) and proof 2 (same character multiset as the text layer minus chrome) pass. The cover, the table of rule effective dates, the table of contents, the list of local court forms, the index and Appendix A (the standing orders as revised May 15, 2026, superseded by the compilation revised August 11, 2026) belong to no chapter. Review note: Rule 2.50 permits electronic recording "as permitted by the General Order re: Use of Electronic Recording Equipment"; Standing Order 1.8 (August 11, 2026, carded) rescinded the First Amended General Order re: Use of Electronic Recording Equipment after the book's effective date.
Division XI: information forms for data processing (Rule 11.2); required action - action taken on all calendared cases and a future date always set (Rule 11.19); and pro tem judges - an attorney named as a plaintiff in a civil or small claims case may not sit as a judge pro-tem during the case or within six months following its resolution, nor one named as a defendant in two or more such cases (Rule 11.22). Rules 11.1, 11.3 to 11.5, 11.7 to 11.18, 11.20 and 11.21 are repealed, and Rule 11.6 (voluntary arbitration; see Local Rule 10.2) was repealed and renumbered.
Duval County's indigent-defense and magistration rules under the Texas Fair Defense Act (S.B. 7): who may be booked into the county jail and on what paper; arrest-case numbering; presentment to a magistrate within 48 hours (art. 15.16); the magistrate's warnings, counsel inquiry, interpreter duty, indigence determination and appointment of counsel within 24 hours of a request; the alternative appointment plan under art. 26.04(g)-(h) with annual applications, seven attorney categories (capital, first and second degree, third degree/state jail/misdemeanor, competency, appeals, post-conviction, extradition), CLE and experience standards, random rotation within each category, written acceptance within 48 hours, first contact by the end of the next working day, replacement and suspension of counsel, fee applications within five days of completing services and the compensation attachment ($500 pleas; $175/$150 hourly; $1,400 per jury-trial day; appellate caps); bail schedules by offense class with a personal bond office (fee $20 or 3%), pre-trial supervision and revocation hearings within two working days; arraignment settings and notice; repeal of conflicting rules.