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Rule 8 (subdivisions A to H): jury service, unless excused by law, a responsibility of citizenship (8(A)); the court’s criteria for excuses for undue hardship under Code of Civil Procedure section 204 (Division 1, Section 4.5 of the Standards of Judicial Administration) - no class or category of persons automatically excluded except as provided by law, a statutory exemption granted only when the eligible person claims it, deferral preferred to excuse, inconvenience not an adequate reason to be excused (8(B)); requests to be excused in writing or placed on the court’s record, with facts specifying the hardship (8(C)); the grounds of undue hardship - no reasonably available transportation, travel exceeding 1 and ½ hours, an extreme financial burden, an undue risk to property, a physical or mental disability or impairment (verification required except where the person is aged 70 years or older), services needed for the protection of public health and safety, and the care of another (8(D)); a prospective juror who served on a grand or trial jury during the immediately preceding 12 months excused on request for one (1) year (8(E)); the jury commissioner empowered to excuse persons for undue hardship (8(F)); and to postpone service for a period not to exceed 180 days for a temporary illness, a scheduled vacation with prepaid commitments, a nonrecurring business demand, a work hardship, child care responsibilities, a full time student’s academic program or any other legitimate temporary hardship (8(G)); and a prospective juror who fails to respond to a summons (Code of Civil Procedure § 209) issued a Failure to Appear/Respond to a Jury Summons notice, with monetary sanctions up to $1,500 or contempt of court punishable by fine (up to $1,000), incarceration (5 days), or both (8(H)).
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RULE OF COURT NO. 8 JURY SERVICE AND DEFERMENT A. DUTY OF CITIZENS. Jury service, unless excused by law, is a responsibility of citizenship. The court and its staff should employ all necessary and appropriate means to assure that citizens fulfill this important civic responsibility. B. WRITTEN COURT POLICY. Pursuant to Division 1, Section 4.5 of the Standards of Judicial Administration of the California Rules of Court, the court hereby adopts criteria governing the granting of excuses from jury service on grounds of undue hardship based on Code of Civil Procedure section 204. The policy incorporates the following principles: (1) No class or category or persons will be automatically excluded from jury service except as provided by law. (2) A statutory exemption from jury duty service will be granted only when the eligible person claims it. (3) Deferring jury service shall be preferred to excusing a prospective juror for a temporary or marginal hardship. (4) Inconvenience to a prospective juror or an employer is not an adequate reason to be excused from jury service, although it may be considered a ground for deferral. C. REQUEST TO BE EXCUSED. All requests to be excused from jury service that are granted for undue hardship shall be in writing from the prospective juror, or placed on the court’s record. The prospective juror shall support the request with facts specifying the hardship in a statement about why the circumstances constituting the undue hardship cannot be avoided by deferring the prospective juror’s service. D. GROUNDS CONSTITUTING UNDUE HARDSHIP. An excuse on the grounds of undue hardship may be granted for any of the following reasons: (1) The prospective juror has no reasonably available means of public or private transportation. (2) The prospective juror travels a distance exceeding 1 and ½ hours from the prospective juror’s home. (3) The prospective juror will bear an extreme financial burden. In determining whether to excuse the prospective juror, consideration shall be given to: (a) The source of the prospective juror’s household income; (b) The availability and extent of income reimbursement; (c) The expected length of service; and (d) Whether service can reasonably be expected to compromise that person’s ability to support himself or herself or his or her dependents or so disrupt the economic stability of any individual as to be against the interest of justice. (4) The prospective juror will bear an undue risk of material injury to or destruction of property of the prospective juror, where it is not feasible to make alternative arrangements to alleviate the risk. In determining whether to excuse the prospective juror, consideration shall be given to; (a) The nature of the property; (b) The source and duration of the risk; (c) The probability that the risk will be realized; (d) The reason why alternative arrangements to protect the property cannot be made; and (e) Whether material injury to or destruction of the property will so disrupt the economic stability of any individual as to be against the interest of justice. (5) The prospective juror has a physical or mental disability or impairment, not affecting that person’s competence to act as a juror that would expose the potential juror to undue risk of mental or physical harm. In an individual case, except where the person is aged 70 years or older, the prospective juror shall be required to furnish verification or a method of verification of the disability or impairment, its probable duration, and the particular reasons for the person’s inability to serve as a juror. (6) The prospective juror’s services are immediately needed for the protection of public health and safety, and it is feasible to make alternative arrangements to relieve the person of these responsibilities during the period of service as a juror without substantially reducing essential public services. (7) The prospective juror has a personal obligation to provide actual and necessary care to another, including sick, aged, or infirm dependents, or a child who requires the prospective juror’s personal care and attention, and no comparable substitute care is either available or practical without imposing undue economic hardship on the prospective juror or person cared for. Whether a request to be excused is based on care provided to a sick, disabled, or infirm person, the prospective juror may be required to furnish verification or a method of verification that the person being cared for is in need of regular and personal care. E. PRIOR JURY SERVICE. A prospective juror, who served on a grand or trial jury during the immediately preceding 12 months, shall be excused from jury service on a request for a period of one (1) year from the date of such service. F. VALID REASONS FOR A PROSPECTIVE JUROR TO BE EXCUSED. Upon request, the jury commissioner of the Lassen Superior Court is empowered to excuse from jury service persons for whom jury service would entail an undue hardship as herein above defined. G. EXAMPLES OF VALID REASONS FOR A PROSPECTIVE JUROR TO BE DEFERRED. Upon request, the jury commissioner of the Lassen Superior Court is empowered to postpone the jury service of a person for a period not to exceed 180 days for the following reasons: (1) A temporary illness; (2) A scheduled vacation that involves prepaid commitments, or cannot be otherwise conveniently rescheduled; (3) An important business demand of a nonrecurring nature which cannot be conveniently rescheduled; (4) A work hardship, i.e., there is no one available to take the place of that particular employee at the present time and, as a result, the business would suffer severe financial or business hardship; (5) Child care responsibilities; (6) A full time student when jury service would jeopardize his/her academic program; (7) Any other legitimate temporary hardship not expressly defined that in the opinion of the jury commissioner of the Lassen Superior Court would justify temporary deferment of jury service. All other persons whose jury service has been postponed shall be called to jury service when the reasons for the postponement no longer exist. H. FAILURE TO APPEAR FOR JURY SERVICE. Pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure § 209, any prospective juror who has been summoned for service, and who fails to respond as directed and be excused from attendance, will be issued a Failure to Appear/Respond to a Jury Summons notice to appear in court; may have monetary sanctions imposed on them (up to $1,500); may be found in contempt of court, punishable by fine (up to $1,000), incarceration (5 days), or both. (Effective 7/1/00, as amended 7/1/05, 7/1/22, 1/1/24)
RULE OF COURT NO. 8 JURY SERVICE AND DEFERMENT A. DUTY OF CITIZENS. Jury service, unless excused by law, is a responsibility of citizenship. The court and its staff should employ all necessary and appropriate means to assure that citizens fulfill this important civic responsibility. B. WRITTEN COURT POLICY. Pursuant to Division 1, Section 4.5 of the Standards of Judicial Administration of the Cali
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-12 (California T4 Lassen build 2026-10-12) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-lassen/docs/local-rules/local-rules-court-effective-july-1-2026.pdf (the court's rule book, its cover “SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF LASSEN LOCAL RULES OF COURT Effective July 1, 2026”, as fetched 2026-10-12; 902440 bytes, sha256 b04136070555eb679f27e6020412087f261a95fe203b285fa7225070791bc2b4; 112 pages; this rule PDF pages 50 to 53, printed pages 50 to 53) with the shared verbatim composer (v2 reflow): the rules (PDF pages 5 to 100, printed 5 to 100) composed as one text and cut at the nineteen headings “RULE OF COURT NO. 1” to “RULE OF COURT NO. 19”, each matched once as a whole line (a rule may begin mid-page); the running header of every page (“Superior Court of California, County of Lassen”) and its running footer (“Local Rules of Court”, “Rev. 7/1/26”, “www.Lassen.Courts.CA.gov” and the page number), each named and a whole line in its band, removed as chrome - 480 chrome lines; lines reflowed into the rules' paragraphs, each rule's heading and title, each numbered rule (“6.1 TELEPHONIC APPEARANCE RULE.”), each lettered or numbered subdivision starting a line, a line in capitals ending its paragraph, and each history line (“(Effective ...)”) on a line of its own; the strike report (review/strike-report-2026-10-12.txt) finds no struck run on the book's 112 pages; no table on the rule pages; 9 whitespace-only fixes (build/book-fixes.json: Rule 1's “At-Issue” / “Memorandum” sentence rejoined; Rule 7(B)'s excepted case types set row by row, their cells left to right; Rule 15.7(c)'s complaint addresses and Rule 19.3(g)'s claims address each set one printed line to a line; two pairs of Rule 19.4(a)'s fee lines set apart); the vertical-gap, short-line, page-break, bold, false-break, fragment and row audits (custody file book_extra_audits.py; review/book-extra-audits-2026-10-12.txt and review/book-audits-after-fixes-2026-10-12.txt) list candidates read one by one (build/book_fixes.py) - the rest kept as printed (list items without closing punctuation, the run-in bold headings of Rule 19.4(b) and (d), the “OR” lines between alternatives); proof 1 (whitespace-only) and proof 2 (same character multiset as the text layer minus chrome) pass. The cover (PDF page 1), the table of contents (2 to 4), the alphabetical subject index (101 to 110) and the two appendices of local forms (111 and 112) belong to no card. Review note: Carried as printed: Rule 8(B)(1) “No class or category or persons”; Rule 8(D)(4) ends its lead-in with a semicolon (“consideration shall be given to;”).
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.