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The assignment of cases to the departments, effective immediately: cases assigned for all purposes to the department and its judge; family law matters, domestic violence restraining orders and limited civil cases, including landlord-tenant, probate and small claims cases, to Department 2; civil harassment matters and the other unlimited civil cases to Department 1; child support matters under AB 1058 to the Child Support Commissioner in Department 3; juvenile delinquency matters to Department 1; misdemeanor matters to Department 2; felony matters to Department 2 until bind-over and then to Department 1; juvenile dependency cases to Department 2, a family's cases together; infraction matters to the "Judge Pro Tern" (as printed) in Department 3; Judge D. Darren McElfresh in Department 1, presiding judge and presiding judge of the juvenile court, and Judge Karen D. Olson in Department 2, assistant presiding judge and assistant presiding judge of the juvenile court; and disqualification and unavailability, with referral to the Judicial Council for assignment.
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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF DEL NORTE Standing Order 26-001 Case Assignment This order makes minor modifications clarifying the policy regarding assignment of cases to the departments of this Court. This order goes into effect immediately. Unless otherwise stated in a specific order of the Presiding Judge, cases are assigned for all purposes to the particular department and to the judge assigned to that department as set forth in this order. When the judge normally assigned to a department is unavailable, any judge assigned by the Presiding Judge or Judicial Council may hear cases in that department. Family law matters, domestic violence restraining orders and limited civil cases, including landlord-tenant, probate cases and small claims cases are assigned to Department 2. Civil harassment matters are assigned to Department 1. All unlimited civil cases, excluding those assigned to Department 2 above, are assigned to Department 1. Child Support matters under AB 1058 are assigned to the Child Support Commissioner in Department 3. All juvenile delinquency matters are assigned to Department 1 All misdemeanor matters are assigned to Department 2. All felony matters are assigned to Department 2 until bind-over. Unless otherwise ordered by the judge presiding at the preliminary hearing, felony matters will be assigned to Department 1 upon bind-over after the preliminary hearing. All juvenile dependency cases are assigned by the clerk to Department 2. All dependency cases involving the same family are assigned together in the same department. Infraction matters are assigned to the Judge Pro Tern in Department 3. Pending further order of the Court, Judge D. Darren McElfresh is assigned to Department 1 and Judge Karen D. Olson is assigned to Department 2. Until further order, Judge McElfresh shall serve as presiding judge and presiding judge of the juvenile court. Judge Olson shall be the assistant presiding judge and assistant presiding judge of the juvenile court. When the assigned judge is disqualified, the matter will be heard by any other judge temporarily assigned to that department. If an assigned judge is not available, the case will be referred to the other sitting judge of this court for assignment. If that other sitting judge is not available, the matter may be heard by any other judge sitting in their absence. When both sitting judges are disqualified and there is no other assigned judge available to hear the case, the matter will be referred to the Judicial Council for assignment. This order will remain in effect pending further order of the presiding judge. DATED: DEC 12 2025 Hon. D. Darren McElfresh Presiding Judge
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF DEL NORTE Standing Order 26-001 Case Assignment This order makes minor modifications clarifying the policy regarding assignment of cases to the departments of this Court. This order goes into effect immediately. Unless otherwise stated in a specific order of the Presiding Judge, cases are assigned for all purposes to the particular depart
Reviewer note: Transcribed 2026-10-10 (California T4 Del Norte build 2026-10-10) by eye from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-del-norte/docs/general/_scan-0644.pdf (452017 bytes, sha256 fd84b48fdd6160448fe62461f092e64f52713f6dc8b322edd92af912a171522d; 1 page; a scan, scanned page images with an invisible OCR text layer): read on the page images rendered at 200 dpi; checked against two machine readings never published (RapidOCR on each page and the file's own text layer, the scanner's own machine reading): every 6-word window of the transcription looked up, and the 3 spans the readings do not hold - the OCR's “0rder” and “Department I”, and the date stamp read before “DATED:” - read again on the page images (evidence/vision-check-2026-10-10-resolved.txt). The date stamps and handwritten dates are carried as printed; the signatures and the pleading paper's line numbers are not part of the text; the transcription's closing note, which describes the page, is not published. Review note: Department 3: the order assigns child support matters to the Child Support Commissioner and infractions to the judge pro tem in Department 3; the Judicial Assignments page (held) names "Commissioner Kevin Brian Jones and/or Assigned Judge" there (seeded from it; the Judicial Council's roster lists judges only). Carried as printed: "Judge Pro Tern", and the line on juvenile delinquency matters without a closing period.
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.