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The rules supplement the California Codes and Rules of Court, and all attorneys and self-represented parties appearing before the Napa Superior Court must know and abide by them, read as a whole; the effective date of the rules (1.1); the title of the rules (1.2); and the construction and application of the rules, amended by majority vote of the judges (1.3).
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RULE 1: SCOPE OF RULES FOR THE SUPERIOR COURT These rules are intended to supplement the California Codes and Rules of Court. All attorneys and self-represented parties appearing before the Napa Superior Court must know and abide by these rules, as well as all applicable California Codes and Rules. Further, these rules are cumulative and are to be read as a whole. Thus, every rule applies to every case and every party or attorney appearing before the Napa Superior Court unless common sense or another provision of these rules exempts or supersedes it. These rules, the annual judicial assignments, and the court’s schedules and calendar are available on the court’s website at http://www.napa.courts.ca.gov. (Effective 7/1/02) 1.1 Effective Date of Rules These rules shall take effect on January 1, 2018. (Effective 7/1/02; revised 7/1/03; revised 7/1/05; revised 1/1/06; revised 7/1/06; revised 1/1/07; revised 7/1/07; revised 7/1/08; revised 1/1/09; revised 7/1/09; revised 1/1/10; revised 1/1/11; revised 7/1/11; revised 1/1/12; revised 7/1/12; revised 1/1/13; revised 7/1/13; revised 7/1/14; revised 7/1/15; revised 1/1/16; revised 7/1/16; revised 1/1/17; revised 7/1/17; revised 1/1/18; revised 7/1/18; revised 1/1/19; revised 1/1/20; revised 7/1/20; revised 1/1/21) 1.2 Title of Rules These rules shall be known as “Local Rules for the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Napa”. (Effective 1/1/99; revised 1/1/16) 1.3 Construction and Application of Rules These rules shall be liberally construed to serve the proper and efficient administration of the business and affairs of this court and to promote and facilitate the administration of justice by the Superior Court of Napa County. These rules may be amended or repealed, and new rules may be added, by majority vote of the judges. Rule and subdivision headings do not affect in any manner the scope, meaning, or intent of any of the provisions of these rules. These rules are adopted pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 575.1. Any party or counsel for a party failing to abide by these rules may be sanctioned upon motion of any party or counsel for a party or on the court’s own motion as set forth in Code of Civil Procedure section 575.2. (Effective 7/1/02)
RULE 1: SCOPE OF RULES FOR THE SUPERIOR COURT These rules are intended to supplement the California Codes and Rules of Court. All attorneys and self-represented parties appearing before the Napa Superior Court must know and abide by these rules, as well as all applicable California Codes and Rules. Further, these rules are cumulative and are to be read as a whole. Thus, every rule applies to every
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-09 (California T4 Napa build 2026-10-09) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-napa/docs/general/local-rules-effective-january-1-2026.pdf (the court's rule book, its cover “Local Rules Effective 1/1/26”, as fetched 2026-10-09; 1160403 bytes, sha256 59a4b9c75779cee0fc7cfd9117a7ca5fd4fecfacf7ff354754e0f717151b6f86; 74 pages) with the shared verbatim composer (v2 reflow) rule by rule - the eleven rules (PDF pages 7; 8 to 15; 16 and 17; 18 to 20; 21; 22 to 29; 30 to 44; 45; 46 to 49; 50 to 56; 58 and 59), each beginning at the top of a page: each page's running header (“Superior Court of California, County of Napa”) and footer (the page number) removed as chrome; lines reflowed into the rules' paragraphs; no struck run on any of the 74 pages (review/strike-report-2026-10-09.txt); 9 whitespace-only fixes (build/book-fixes.json: Rule 2.4's list of the Criminal Courthouse's courtrooms, Rule 6.11's attorney fee schedule rows and the history note that closes Rule 4.7, each set back to a line of its own as the page prints them, and one line of Rule 7.10(A)(2) the reflow broke inside a sentence set back to a space; the vertical-gap, short-line and false-break audits find no other); 1 same-character fix (build/book-captions.json: Rule 2.14 A's chart of the case types for which the Court provides an official court reporter set as printed by rows - the header, then each case type with its answer on a line of its own); proof 1 (whitespace-only) and proof 2 (same character multiset as the text layer minus chrome) pass. The cover, the list of currently effective rules, the table of contents, the list of local forms, Appendix A (locating a qualified private child custody evaluator) and the index belong to no card. Review note: Rule 1.1 prints "These rules shall take effect on January 1, 2018." as the book in force reads; the book's cover and the court's Local Rules page date the book January 1, 2026, and its list of currently effective rules dates Rule 1.1 7/1/20.
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.