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Standing Order 2014-03 (effective immediately, November 3, 2014; headed EXPARTE COMMUNICATIONS): except as permitted by law and the California Rules of Court, attorneys and self-represented litigants refrain from initiating ex parte communications - communications with a judge outside the presence of the other parties and outside open court - with the judges, commissioners, and referees of the Merced Superior Court; a party delayed for a scheduled hearing contacts the judge's executive assistants or the clerk's office.
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SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF MERCED 627 W. 21st Street Merced, CA 95340 STANDING ORDER 2014-03 EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY November 3, 2014 EXPARTE COMMUNICATIONS Except as permitted by law and the California Rules of Court, all attorneys and self-represented litigants shall refrain from initiating ex parte communications with judges, commissioners, and referees of the Merced Superior Court. An “ex parte communication” is a communication with a judge or judicial officer that occurs outside the presence of the other parties to the proceeding and outside open court. Unauthorized ex parte communications may give the appearance of unfairness and could violate ethics rules. If an attorney or party wishes to inform the judge or judicial officer that he or she is delayed for a scheduled hearing, he or she shall contact the judge’s executive assistants or the clerk’s office. BRIAN L. McCABE PRESIDING JUDGE OF THE MERCED SUPERIOR COURT
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF MERCED 627 W. 21st Street Merced, CA 95340 STANDING ORDER 2014-03 EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY November 3, 2014 EXPARTE COMMUNICATIONS Except as permitted by law and the California Rules of Court, all attorneys and self-represented litigants shall refrain from initiating ex parte communications with judges, commissioners, and referees of the Merced Superior Court. A
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 13, a scanned page image: read on the page images rendered at 200 dpi (vision/img/so-p13.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.