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Chapter 8 (Rules 8.1 to 8.6): monthly sessions of the appellate division, the calendar posted on the court's website (8.1); oral argument of no more than 15 minutes (8.2); briefs (8.3); the original trial court file used instead of a clerk's transcript in limited jurisdiction appeals (8.4), and the clerk's transcript in general jurisdiction appeals (8.5); and extensions of time for the reporter's transcript - good cause, and one (1) automatic extension of 30 days (8.6).
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Chapter 8: Appellate Court Rules 8.1 Regular & Special Sessions Regular sessions of the appellate division of the court will be held monthly for limited jurisdiction cases. The calendar will be posted on the court’s website. Motions will be heard at regular sessions, unless otherwise designated by the presiding judge of the appellate division. Special sessions will be set at the discretion of the presiding judge of the appellate division. (Effective 7/1/04; amended 7/1/08; amended 1/1/18; renumbered 1/1/19; renumbered & amended 1/1/24) 8.2 Oral Argument Unless otherwise ordered, counsel for each party will be allowed no more than 15 minutes for oral argument. The appellant or the moving party will have the right to open and close. (Effective 7/1/04; renumbered 1/1/19; renumbered 1/1/24) 8.3 Briefs Each party must file an original brief with the clerk. (Effective 1/1/04; renumbered & amended 1/1/07; amended 7/1/08; amended 1/1/10 renumbered 1/1/19; amended 1/1/23; renumbered 1/1/24) 8.4 Clerk’s Transcript on Appeal – Limited Jurisdiction California Rules of Court, Title 8 sets forth all of the procedures and timelines for appellants filing limited jurisdiction appeals. These rules are found at https://www.courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index.cfm?title=eight The original trial court file will be used instead of a clerk’s transcript. This rule does not relieve an appellant of their duty to comply with all other California Rules of Court, Title 8 Appellate Rules which can be found at https://www.courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index.cfm?title=eight (Effective 7/1/12; renumbered 1/1/18; renumbered 1/1/19; amended 1/1/20; amended 1/1/23; renumbered & amended 1/1/24; amended 7/1/24) 8.5 Clerk’s Transcript on Appeal – General Jurisdiction California Rules of Court, Title 8 sets forth all of the procedures and timelines for appellants filing limited jurisdiction appeals. These rules are found at https://www.courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index.cfm?title=eight. The clerk will prepare copies of the clerk’s transcript for parties to the appeal on USB drive(s) and mail them to the parties. (Effective 1/1/20; amended 1/1/23; renumbered & amended 1/1/24) 8.6 Extension of Time to File Reporter’s Transcript – Limited Jurisdiction A court reporter’s request for an extension of time to prepare and file the reporter’s transcript will not be granted without a showing of good cause and the approval of the Appellate Presiding Judge, or other duly authorized judge. Court reporters are granted one (1) automatic extension of time of 30 days to prepare and file the reporter’s transcript where the filed appeal is as to a judgment after a proceeding in which an electronic recorder has been utilized to report the proceedings or where a party appeals a judgment after a trial by jury or by the court. Thus, the reporter’s transcript is due within 50 days of the filing of the notice to prepare transcript (see California Rules of Court, Rules 8.834(d) and 8.866(d)). (Effective 7/1/25)
Chapter 8: Appellate Court Rules 8.1 Regular & Special Sessions Regular sessions of the appellate division of the court will be held monthly for limited jurisdiction cases. The calendar will be posted on the court’s website. Motions will be heard at regular sessions, unless otherwise designated by the presiding judge of the appellate division. Special sessions will be set at the discretion of the
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-10 (California T4 Mendocino build 2026-10-10) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-mendocino/docs/local-rules/localrules.pdf (the court's rule book, its cover “Superior Court of California County of Mendocino Local Rules Effective July 1, 2026”, as fetched 2026-10-10; 2190010 bytes, sha256 10c2f9fe33dd913b755e1e05ef7b947b851dc38c30ff0a08807e7ad866117b0c; 152 pages) with the shared verbatim composer (v2 reflow) chapter by chapter - Chapters 1 to 8 (PDF pages 7 to 50; 51 to 63; 64 to 70; 71 to 86; 87 to 104; 105 to 108; 109 to 112; 113 and 114), each beginning at the top of a page: each page's running header (“Superior Court of California, County of Mendocino”) and footer (the page number) removed as chrome; lines reflowed into the rules' paragraphs; no struck run on any of the 152 pages (review/strike-report-2026-10-10.txt); Chapter 1's 55 rule numbers, which the book prints as images the text layer does not carry, set before their headings from their placements on the page (read by eye, and against the book's History Table; build/labels.py, build/labels-report.json); 12 whitespace-only fixes (build/book-fixes.json: Rule 1.8's stacked list of the departments' courtesy copy email addresses, which the reflow ran into one line, set one address a line, and its file-name example set on its own line; seven form numbers broken after the hyphen at a printed line's end set as one number - EFS-007, EFS-020, FW-003, MMC-323-327, MFL-250, FL-150 and JV-220; Rule 1.39's bulleted item “Copies of discovery or motions” set apart from the item before it; and two sentences rejoined where a printed line ended short before a long word - Rule 2.11's sentence on the USB drive's “ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD” label across a page break and Rule 4.2's “Notice of Family Law Case Management Conference”; the vertical-gap, short-line, right-edge, page-break, bold-line, false-break, fragment and row audits find no other); no same-character fix; proof 1 (whitespace-only) and proof 2 (same character multiset as the text layer minus chrome) pass. The cover, the table of contents, the lists of local and Judicial Council forms, the History Table and the index belong to no card. Review note: Rule 8.5, headed "Clerk's Transcript on Appeal - General Jurisdiction", says the California Rules of Court set the procedures "for appellants filing limited jurisdiction appeals", as Rule 8.4 does; carried as printed.
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.