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Personal injury cases are filed in the district where the incident arose; since January 8, 2024, Central District personal injury cases are assigned for all purposes to independent calendar departments at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse; PI Hub Departments 30 and 31 closed (May 13 and June 24, 2024), with their older cases reassigned to Department T (Alhambra Courthouse) and Department B (Van Nuys Courthouse). The order supersedes paragraphs 2 and 3 of the Eighth Amended Standing Order for the Personal Injury Hub Courts.
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2024-GEN-003-00 FILED Superior Court of California County of Los Angeles MAY 17, 2024 David W. Slayton, Executive Officer/Clerk of Court By: A. Vallejo, Deputy SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES IN RE ASSIGNMENT AND TRANSFER OF PERSONAL INJURY CASES GENERAL ORDER ORDER RE: ASSIGNMENT AND TRANSFER OF PERSONAL INJURY CASES The Superior Court of California, in and for the County of Los Angeles (Superior Court, Los Angeles County), hereby issues the following order regarding the assignment of Personal Injury (“PI”) cases within the Central District and the transfer of a number of PI cases out of the Central District. 1. Authority This order is being made pursuant to Government Code section 69508(a), California Rules of Court, rule 10.603, and the Superior Court, Los Angeles County, Local Rules, rule 2.3. It supersedes paragraphs 2 and 3 only (from page 2, line 17 through page 3, line 23) of the Eighth Amended Standing Order for Procedures in the Personal Injury Hub Courts Effective October 10, 2022 (9/20/22). No other provision of the Eighth Amended Standing Order is affected by the instant order. 2. Purpose After a thorough examination of case filings, pending inventories, aging reports, workloads, and other statistics and data, the Court has concluded that the unlimited jurisdiction Independent Calendar (“IC”) Court model is the most effective model of case management to ensure the resolution of PI cases within the civil case disposition time goals set forth in California Standards of Judicial Administration section 2.1. For this and other reasons, the Court has been transitioning away from the PI hub model since October 2022. To that end, ultimately all PI cases will be assigned to IC courtrooms and will be actively managed by the assigned judicial officer. 3. Assignment of Personal Injury Cases to Judicial Districts; Assignments within Central District • Unless otherwise ordered, all pending cases remain where they are assigned. • Since October 10, 2022, all newly filed PI cases, as defined in Los Angeles County Local Rules, rule 2.3, have been filed in the judicial district where the incident arose. This remains true going forward. • Parties filing PI cases should use the filing court locator on the Los Angeles Superior Court website to determine the appropriate filing location (www.lacourt.org and https://www.lacourt.org/filinglocatornet/ui/filingsearch.aspx?CT=CI). • Since January 8, 2024, all PI cases filed in the Court’s Central District have been assigned for all purposes to IC departments at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse, rather than a PI Hub Court. This remains true going forward. 4. Closure of PI Hub Court Department 30 and Opening of Department T in the Alhambra Courthouse Effective May 13, 2024, Department 30 in the PI Hub has closed. The same date, a new unlimited jurisdiction IC courtroom opened in the Alhambra Courthouse (Department T), within the Northeast District. Effective May 13, 2024, under the authority of Los Angeles County Local Rule 2.3(b)(1), PI cases filed on or before May 12, 2022 are reassigned from Department 30 to Department T for all purposes (including trial). All previously scheduled dates (including hearing and trial) for these cases transferred from Department 30 to Department T remain set unless otherwise ordered by the Court. Also effective May 13, 2024, and pursuant to California Rules of Court, rules 10.603(b)(1)(B) and 10.603(c)(1)(D), PI cases filed since May 13, 2022, have been redistributed from Department 30 to the remaining departments within the PI Hub. 5. Closure of PI Hub Court Department 31 and Opening of Department B at the Van Nuys Courthouse Effective June 24, 2024, Department 31 in the PI Hub will close. The same date, a new IC Court will be opened in Department B at the Van Nuys Courthouse, within the Northwest District. Effective June 24, 2024, under the authority of Los Angeles County Local Rule 2.3(b)(1), PI cases filed on or before June 23, 2022, in Department 31 are reassigned to Department B for all purposes (including trial). All previously scheduled dates (including hearing and trial) for cases transferred from Department 31 to Department B remain set unless otherwise ordered by the Court. Effective June 24, 2024, and pursuant to California Rules of Court, rules 10.603(b)(1)(B) and 10.603(c)(1)(D), the PI cases filed since June 24, 2022, in Department 31 are ordered redistributed to the remaining departments within the PI Hub. This General Order is to remain in effect until otherwise ordered by the Presiding Judge. GOOD CAUSE APPEARING THEREFOR, IT IS SO ORDERED. DATED: May 17, 2024 ____________________________________ SAMANTHA P. JESSNER Presiding Judge GENERAL ORDER FOR ASSIGNMENT OF PERSONAL INJURY CASES
2024-GEN-003-00 FILED Superior Court of California County of Los Angeles MAY 17, 2024 David W. Slayton, Executive Officer/Clerk of Court By: A. Vallejo, Deputy SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES IN RE ASSIGNMENT AND TRANSFER OF PERSONAL INJURY CASES GENERAL ORDER ORDER RE: ASSIGNMENT AND TRANSFER OF PERSONAL INJURY CASES The Superior Court of California, in and
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