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Standing Order 2010-01 (April 19, 2010, effective immediately; replacing Standing Order 2009-08): when a minor who is or has been the subject of a Juvenile Dependency Court proceeding needs an appointment of counsel (Welfare & Institutions Code Section 317), the Court Appointed Counsel submits a declaration of the need for outside counsel; on a finding of good cause the Juvenile Court appoints a guardian ad litem, who contacts a suitably experienced local attorney and submits the attorney's contract (pro bono service acceptable) to the Dependency Court Judicial Officer for approval; the clerk then calendars an “Appointment of Section 317 Counsel” on the dependency calendar with notice to all parties, and the Court appoints counsel at the hearing.
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SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF MERCED SUPERIOR COURTS BUILDING 2260 N. STREET MERCED, CALIFORNIA 95340 STANDING ORDER 2010-01 April 19, 2010 Effective Immediately This Standing Order replaces Standing Order 2009-08 When the minor who is or has been the subject of a Juvenile Dependency Court proceeding, as that term is defined in California Welfare & Institutions Code Section 317, needs an appointment of counsel the Court Appointed Counsel is required to submit to the juvenile court a declaration setting for the need for appointment of outside counsel for the minor. The Juvenile Court shall upon receipt of such declaration and the finding of good cause for the appointment, appoint a guardian ad litem for the minor for the purpose of prosecuting or defending the pending action. This action shall be recorded on the Minute Order. The guardian ad litem shall contact a local attorney who is suitably experienced and competent in the litigation of the type of action in which the minor is involved. The guardian ad litem shall accept a contract for the attorney’s services and submit the contract to the Dependency Court Judicial Officer, for approval, (pro bono service is also acceptable.) Upon approval of the contract the clerk of the court shall calendar on the dependency court calendar as “Appointment of Section 317 Counsel” and provide notice to all parties. The Court at the hearing shall appoint counsel to prosecute or defend the action as provided by California Welfare & Institution Code Section 317. BRIAN L. McCABE ASSISTANT PRESIDING JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF MERCED SUPERIOR COURTS BUILDING 2260 N. STREET MERCED, CALIFORNIA 95340 STANDING ORDER 2010-01 April 19, 2010 Effective Immediately This Standing Order replaces Standing Order 2009-08 When the minor who is or has been the subject of a Juvenile Dependency Court proceeding, as that term is defined in California Welfare & Institutions Code Section 317, needs an
Reviewer note: Transcribed 2026-10-15 (California T4 Merced build 2026-10-15) by eye from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-merced/docs/general/standing-order-07072026.pdf (11638206 bytes, sha256 3a64db27e5391b6e9054feb5caef786433c02e5204366a95c135937e05e1630f; the compilation “ACTIVE STANDING ORDERS 2006 to Present”, linked as “All Current Standing Orders”; 70 pages - 36 covered by scanned page images (each with a machine reading laid with it - not a card's source), 34 born-digital (one font of the juvenile competency protocol's pages draws its characters shifted)); this order the compilation's page 9, a scanned page image: read on the page images rendered at 200 dpi (vision/img/so-p09.png), transcribed with the compilation's pages 4 to 17 and checked against a RapidOCR reading of the images (at 200 dpi) and the file's own text layer for the same pages, never published: of the transcription's 2207 words, 194 6-word windows were not found in a reading, in 24 spans - 20 spans split into consecutive pieces each found (a page break, a letterhead or signature block the readings interleave, or the readings' line order) and 4 spans read again on the page images and found as transcribed (vision/check-log.txt; evidence/vision-check-2026-10-15.log, evidence/vision-explain-2026-10-15.log). Not part of the text: the compilation's page stamps (“N of 70”) and, where printed, the court's seal, the letterhead's upper-right block, the signature, the running footers and the order's distribution list (cc:), never content (taken out by build/normalize_transcripts.py; the transcriber's file is kept in custody). The transcription's closing note, which describes the pages, is not published.
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.