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Division 8: briefs under rule 8.800 with four (4) legible copies, oral argument on the third Friday of the month at 8:00 a.m., fifteen (15) minutes for each party, and motions heard in the department designated by the Presiding Judge (8.1.1 to 8.1.4)
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DIVISION 8 APPELLATE DEPARTMENT Chapter 1 General 8.1.1 Briefs. Briefs shall be prepared and filed as provided by California Rule of Court 8.800, et seq. In addition thereto, counsel shall deposit with the Clerk of the Court, when filing the original brief, four (4) legible copies of the original brief for the assistance of the members of the Court. (Effective 7/1/08, amended 7/1/13, 1/1/17, 7/1/20) 8.1.2 Calendaring. The Court, after the filing of an appeal, will set a briefing schedule and set a date for oral argument on the third Friday of the month at 8:00 a.m. (Effective 7/1/08) 8.1.3 Oral Argument. Unless otherwise ordered, counsel for each party shall be allowed fifteen (15) minutes for oral argument. The appellant or the moving party shall have the right to open and close. (Effective 7/1/08) 8.1.4 Motions. All motions shall be heard at regular sessions in the department designated by the Presiding Judge unless a different time or place for the hearing of a particular motion is designated by the Presiding Judge. (Effective 7/1/08, amended 1/1/10, 1/1/13)
DIVISION 8 APPELLATE DEPARTMENT Chapter 1 General 8.1.1 Briefs. Briefs shall be prepared and filed as provided by California Rule of Court 8.800, et seq. In addition thereto, counsel shall deposit with the Clerk of the Court, when filing the original brief, four (4) legible copies of the original brief for the assistance of the members of the Court. (Effective 7/1/08, amended 7/1/13, 1/1/17, 7/1/2
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-15 (California T4 Madera build 2026-10-15) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-madera/docs/local-rules/final-madera-superior-court-local-rules-effective-january-1-2026-july-1-2026.pdf (the court's rule book, its cover “SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF MADERA LOCAL RULES OF COURT ADOPTED AND EFFECTIVE January 1, 2026 (Version remains in effect July 1, 2026)”, as fetched 2026-10-15; 917952 bytes, sha256 09e571d1d3d274fb9327738b46ba46823820c85e97926c20e3350d7c5ac18500; 135 pages; this part PDF page 111, page number 111) with the shared verbatim composer (v2 reflow): the rules (PDF pages 18 to 118) composed as one text and cut at the division headings, and in Divisions 2, 4 and 5 at a chapter heading (“Chapter 7 Telephone Hearings in Selected Departments Using CourtCall System.”, “Chapter 2 Traffic Matters”, “Chapter 2 Juvenile Dependency Cases -Appointment of Counsel”), each matched once as a whole line; every page's three-line running head (“Superior Court of California”, “County of Madera”, “Local Rules of Court”, named) and page number (“18” to “118”, named) removed as chrome - 404 chrome lines; lines reflowed into the rules' paragraphs, each rule number and lettered or numbered subdivision starting a line; the strike report (review/strike-report-2026-10-15.txt) finds no struck run in the book; the SymbolMT font's trademark sign after “CourtCall” in Rule 2.7.2(c) and “COURTCALL” in Rule 2.7.4 (PDF pages 44 and 45), a private-use code point in the text layer, read as the “™” it prints (the composer's glyph map, applied to the text and the proof's layer alike); 6 whitespace-only fixes (build/book-fixes.json: two rule numbers cited at a line's head - “1.6.9” and “7.1.7” - rejoined to their sentences, Rule 1.3.1(i)'s “1.3.1(a)-(h)” rejoined, the end of Rule 1.6.4's fee table and the paragraph after it split, a row of Rule 1.6.7's fee schedule split from the next row's label, and Rule 4.2.10(f)'s mailing address split into its lines); the vertical-gap, short-line, page-break, false-break, structural-break and row-join audits (review/book-gap-audit-2026-10-15.txt, review/book-short-lines-2026-10-15.txt, review/book-extra-audits-2026-10-15.txt) list candidates read one by one (build/book_fixes.py) - the rest kept as printed; proof 1 (whitespace-only) and proof 2 (same character multiset as the text layer minus chrome) pass. The cover with the judges of the court (PDF page 1), the instructions for filing (2), the table of contents (3 and 4), the list of effective rules (5 to 17), the index (119 and 120) and the lists of local forms (121 to 135) belong to no card.
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.