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Riverside County Superior Court — Department PS2 Rules (Hon. Manny Bustamante; last modified 2/14/2025)

High confidence· verified October 2, 2026Judge PreferencesDepartment PS2 Rules (Hon. Manny Bustamante; last modified 2/14/2025), Superior Court of California, County of Riverside; posted on the court's website at https://www.riverside.courts.ca.gov/system/files/2025-02/Department%20PS2%20Rules.pdf, fetched 2026-10-02.

Summary

Department PS2's rules (Judge Manny Bustamante, Palm Springs Courthouse): hearing times; counsel appearing for a limited purpose; court reporters under Code of Civil Procedure §269(a)(1); ex parte applications and requests to shorten time; law and motion and tentative rulings under California Rules of Court, Rule 3.1308(a); case management goals and case management conferences; informal discovery conferences; orders to show cause; trial setting conferences; and trials (the joint pretrial statement, witness and exhibit lists, exhibits, motions in limine, trial briefs, stipulations and jury instructions, matters not to be mentioned before the jury, and the disposition of exhibits after trial).

Applies to

California > Fourth Appellate District > Riverside County > Superior Court of California, County of Riverside > Department PS2

Source of truth

Superior Court of California, County of Riverside Palm Springs Courthouse Department PS2 Judge Manny Bustamante Unless contrary orders are made by written order, or on the record in open-court, the following orders apply to all cases assigned to Department PS2. Department PS2 rules discussed below will be incorporated by reference into all minute orders, including trial setting orders. References

Official source: Superior Court of California, County of Riverside — court website
Source health: Pending verification · checked September 28, 2026
Effective date: February 14, 2025
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_PS2_Rules.pdf (321912 bytes, sha256 9119dc9e509b30142ea455be32229eb65876bce8795b6da7e131dfd23cdfe410; 7 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 Manuel Bustamante, Jr.: the document names the department and its judge, and the court's Judicial Directory (updated 9/15/26) places Judge Manuel Bustamante, Jr. in Department PS2.