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The standing order of June 27, 2024 on petitions for writ of mandate that qualify as priority election matters (Elections Code § 13314, Government Code § 83121, Code of Civil Procedure § 460.7): the caption must state “PRIORITY ELECTION MATTER”, the authority and the deadline for final action (with a sample caption); the e-filing title “Petition for Writ of Election”; notice to the assigned department's clerk on filing; hearing dates set by the clerk; and, absent good cause, no merits hearing on less than four court days' notice.
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[File stamp: FILED / ENDORSED, JUN 27 2024, By P. Banks, Deputy Clerk] SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO STANDING ORDER OF THE SACRAMENTO SUPERIOR COURT No. SSC-24-2 ORDER: ELECTION WRITS BY ORDER OF THIS COURT AND EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY: 1. All petitions for writ of mandate which qualify as a priority election matter (Elections Code § 13314, Government Code § 83121, or Code of Civil Procedure § 460.7) must include the language, “PRIORITY ELECTION MATTER” on the right side of the caption on the Petition and any amended Petitions, and must include a citation to the applicable legal authority qualifying the particular petition as a priority election matter. The Court shall refer to these matters as “Election Writs” for the remainder of this order. 2. If the petitioner files the petition for an Election Writ via the Court’s electronic filing system, referred to as eCourt, the petitioner must select the document title “Petition for Writ of Election.” A failure to select this option will result in a delay of processing. 3. Beneath the designation of “PRIORITY ELECTION MATTER” the caption of any petition for an Election Writ must also contain the deadline imposed by the applicable statute or agency (such as the Secretary of State, Sacramento County Office of the Registrar of Voters, etc.) by which the Court must take final action on the merits of the petition. For example: VOTER SMITH, Petitioner, v. GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVE, in her official capacity as Government Representative of the State of California Respondent. Case No. ________ VERIFIED PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDATE PRIORITY ELECTION MATTER (Cal. Elec. Code § 13314) ACTION REQUIRED BY: January 1, 2024 4. Immediately upon filing a petition for an Election Writ, the petitioner must contact the clerk of the assigned department (either by phone or by email), to notify the clerk that an Election Writ has been assigned to the department. The petitioner must also inform the department clerk of the deadline imposed by the applicable statute or agency (such as the Secretary of State, Sacramento County Office of the Registrar of Voters, etc.) by which the Court must take final action on the merits of the petition. 5. The department clerk will provide the parties with a hearing date and time. The parties may not select their own hearing date and/or time. 6. Absent a showing of good cause, which may be established by declaration filed concurrently with the verified petition, the Court will not set a merits hearing for an Election Writ on less than four court days’ notice to the respondent(s) and any real party(ies) in interest. (For example, if a petition is filed on Monday, the earliest the Court will hear the merits of the petition is that Friday, and such a hearing will occur only if the petitioner provides proper service of summons as well as notice of the hearing to the respondent and any real party in interest by close of business on Monday.) This order shall remain in effect until such time as it may be modified or revoked. DATED: 6-27, 2024 THE HONORABLE BUNMI O. AWONIYI Presiding Judge Standing Order of the Superior Court Number: SSC- 24-2 Order: Election Writs [The month and day of the date, "6-27", are handwritten, as is the final "2" of the number in the footer. The order bears the seal of the Superior Court of California, County of Sacramento.]
[File stamp: FILED / ENDORSED, JUN 27 2024, By P. Banks, Deputy Clerk] SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO STANDING ORDER OF THE SACRAMENTO SUPERIOR COURT No. SSC-24-2 ORDER: ELECTION WRITS BY ORDER OF THIS COURT AND EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY: 1. All petitions for writ of mandate which qualify as a priority election matter (Elections Code § 13314, Government Code § 83121, or Code of Civi
Reviewer note: Transcribed 2026-10-02 (California T3 Sacramento build 2026-10-02) from BenchPath custody ca/t3/ca-sacramento/standing-orders/SSC-24-2.pdf (202675 bytes, sha256 bf658b60daf0dc327da3d57edd61fa4f65ac7b402bcb86ac9846c6541d2ef07d; 3 pages), a page scan whose only text is an invisible OCR layer - transcribed by eye from the rendered page images (200 dpi), every page read against its image; the file's OCR text layer served only as a second reader - every six-word window of the transcription looked up in it and every miss checked on the page; the clerk's file stamp in one bracketed line, handwritten fills in place with a closing bracketed note, the running footer transcribed once, pleading line numbers and fill marks omitted; a signature itself is not transcribed.
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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.