Riverside County Superior Court — Department 5 Trial Setting Order (Hon. Sophia Choi)

High confidence· verified October 2, 2026Judge PreferencesDepartment 5 Trial Setting Order (Hon. Sophia Choi), Superior Court of California, County of Riverside; posted on the court's website at https://www.riverside.courts.ca.gov/system/files/2026-02/Department%205%20Trial%20Setting%20Order.pdf, fetched 2026-10-02.

Summary

Department 5's trial setting order (Judge Sophia Choi): the right to a jury trial and its forfeiture; appearances on the trial date by principal trial counsel, parties and insurance representatives; counsel's obligations before the trial date under RSC Local Rule 3401 (trial documents, jury questionnaires, parties who have not appeared, and court reporters); jury trial procedures (claims for economic damages, bifurcation of punitive damages, the trial day and limited civil trials); and requests to continue trial or to extend discovery cut-off dates under Code of Civil Procedure section 595.2.

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California > Fourth Appellate District > Riverside County > Superior Court of California, County of Riverside > Department 5

Source of truth

Riverside County—Historic Department 5 Judge Sophia Choi DEPARTMENT 5 TRIAL SETTING ORDER A. Right to Jury Trial 1. If the Court has declared that a party has forfeited its right to a jury trial, that party shall not post jury fees until that party has been granted relief from that forfeiture. Any request for relief from a forfeiture of the right to a jury trial shall be brought in the form of a n

Official source: Superior Court of California, County of Riverside — court website
Source health: Pending verification · checked September 28, 2026
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Last verified: October 2, 2026benchpath-ca-t3-riverside-2026-10-02

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-02 (California T3 Riverside build 2026-10-02) from BenchPath custody ca/t3/ca-riverside/docs/dept/Department_5_Trial_Setting_Order.pdf (272680 bytes, sha256 6e038b444447c2b06bc93b3b9feabc55be1f6598e864a093d658e8ee276e2ccc; 11 pages) with the shared verbatim composer (v2 reflow): page marks and running footers removed as chrome; lines reflowed into the document's paragraphs; proof 1 (whitespace-only) and proof 2 (same character multiset as the text layer minus chrome) pass. Attached to Judge Sophia Choi: the document names the department and its judge, and the court's Judicial Directory (updated 9/15/26) places Judge Sophia Choi in Department 5.

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