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San Bernardino County Superior Court — Department S17 - Complex Initial Case Management Order

High confidence· verified October 7, 2026Judge PreferencesDepartment S17 - Complex Initial Case Management Order, Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino; posted on the court's website at https://sanbernardino.courts.ca.gov/system/files/civil/s17complexinitialcasemanagementorder.pdf, fetched 2026-10-03.

Summary

Department S17's initial case management conference order for the Complex Litigation Program (Judge Joseph T. Ortiz): service of the order; attending the initial CMC in person or remotely; responsive pleadings and the stay of discovery until lifted; the agenda counsel meet and confer on in person no later than fourteen days before the initial CMC; the joint report and what it must include (including electronically stored information); joint reports for later conferences; informal discovery conferences required before discovery motions; and the department's Zoom appearance rules.

Applies to

California > Fourth Appellate District > San Bernardino County > Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino > Department S17

Source of truth

Superior Court of California County of San Bernardino 247 W. Third Street, Dept. S17 San Bernardino, CA 92415-0210 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO, SAN BERNARDINO DISTRICT INITIAL CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE ORDER This case is assigned for all purposes to Judge Joseph T. Ortiz in the Complex Litigation Program, Department S-17, located at the San Bernardino Justice Center, 247

Official source: Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino — court website
Source health: Healthy · checked September 28, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: October 7, 2026benchpath-ca-t4-san-bernardino-2026-10-07

Reviewer note: Transcribed 2026-10-07 (California T4 San Bernardino build 2026-10-07) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-san-bernardino/docs/civil/s17complexinitialcasemanagementorder.pdf (401628 bytes, sha256 cfccbdcbe20f2fc8d290ed1fd24dac628e3b93da98cbaa745425980aeb52e7e0; 9 pages) - transcribed by eye from the rendered page images (200 dpi), every page read against its image; RapidOCR's reading of each page, and the file's own text layer where it has one, served only as second readers - every six-word window of the transcription was looked up in them and every miss checked on the page image, and every quotation mark, apostrophe and dash checked on a crop of the page (custody vision/check-log.md); captions set cell by cell, zip-code tables one row per line (zip codes | city), pleading continuation marks and line numbers omitted, running footers transcribed once, handwritten fills in place, with a closing bracketed note; a signature itself is not transcribed. Attached to Judge Joseph T. Ortiz: the document is Department S17's, and the court's Schedule of Assignments (effective October 1, 2026) places Judge Joseph T. Ortiz in Department S17.