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Standing Order 2020-02 (effective January 13, 2020), limitations on media coverage: when a media request is granted, unless a written judicial order permits an exception, no photographing or video coverage of a courtroom's interior through glass door windows, of any part of a court facility (lobby areas, hallways, stairs and elevators), of anyone wearing a juror badge, or of judicial officers, court staff and jurors; every proposed order (MC-510) submitted with a media request (MC-500) placing personnel and equipment in the back of the courtroom and permitting only still photography and video coverage of counsel and defendant; the procedures of the California Rules of Court, rule 1.150 unchanged.
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SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF MERCED 627 W. 21st Street Merced, CA 95340 STANDING ORDER #2020-02 EFFECTIVE JANUARY 13, 2020 LIMITATIONS ON MEDIA COVERAGE When a media request is granted, the following limitations apply unless an exception is expressly permitted by written judicial order. 1. Any photographing or video coverage of the interior of a courtroom through glass door windows is prohibited. 2. Photographing or video coverage of any kind by the media and general public is not permitted in any part of a court facility, including but not limited to lobby areas, hallways, stairs, and elevators. 3. Photographing or video coverage of anyone wearing a juror badge, whether intentional or inadvertent, anywhere in any court facility is prohibited. 4. Photographing and/or video coverage of judicial officers, court staff, and jurors is not permitted. All proposed orders (MC-510) submitted with a media request (MC-500) must include the following language: 1. Personnel and equipment shall be placed in the back of the courtroom. 2. Only still photography and video coverage of counsel and defendant is permitted. Photographing and/or video coverage of judicial officers, court staff, and jurors is not permitted. A sample order is attached and will be posted to: https://www.merced.courts.ca.gov/administrative_requests.shtml. Nothing in this rule changes or affects the procedures established in the California Rules of Court, rule 1.150. 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 #2020-02 EFFECTIVE JANUARY 13, 2020 LIMITATIONS ON MEDIA COVERAGE When a media request is granted, the following limitations apply unless an exception is expressly permitted by written judicial order. 1. Any photographing or video coverage of the interior of a courtroom through glass door windows is pr
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 28, a scanned page image: read on the page images rendered at 200 dpi (vision/img/so-p28.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. Review note: The order posts its sample order (MC-510, the compilation's pages 29 and 30, a Judicial Council form - not transcribed) at an address of the court's former website.
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.