Standing Order 2018-04 (effective May 22, 2018), procedures for handling confidential records: the Clerk of the Court allows all parties and attorneys of record to view the confidential records of the case, and sends notice to the parties when a confidential document is lodged without a proof of service; documents filed under seal and documents whose access is limited by law are excepted.
California > Fifth Appellate District > Merced County > Superior Court of California, County of Merced
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF MERCED 627 W. 21st Street Merced, CA 95340 STANDING ORDER #2018-04 EFFECTIVE MAY 22, 2018 PROCEDURES FOR HANDLING CONFIDENTIAL RECORDS The Clerk of the Court shall allow all parties and attorneys of record to view the confidential records of the case, so that the court is not placed in a position of inadvertently maintaining inappropriate ex parte communication. In the event a document is lodged without a proof of service, the Clerk of the Court shall send out a notice to the parties that the confidential document is being maintained in the court file. This order does not apply to documents filed under seal or documents that are confidential and access limited by law. DONALD J. PROIETTI PRESIDING JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF MERCED 627 W. 21st Street Merced, CA 95340 STANDING ORDER #2018-04 EFFECTIVE MAY 22, 2018 PROCEDURES FOR HANDLING CONFIDENTIAL RECORDS The Clerk of the Court shall allow all parties and attorneys of record to view the confidential records of the case, so that the court is not placed in a position of inadvertently maintaining inappropriate ex parte communicati
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 20, a scanned page image: read on the page images rendered at 200 dpi (vision/img/so-p20.png), transcribed with the compilation's pages 18 to 28 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 2059 words, 109 6-word windows were not found in a reading, in 23 spans - 23 spans split into consecutive pieces each found (a page break, a letterhead or signature block the readings interleave, or the readings' line order) (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.