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San Bernardino County Superior Court — Department S17 - Informal Discovery Conference Order

High confidence· verified October 7, 2026Judge PreferencesDepartment S17 - Informal Discovery Conference Order, Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino; posted on the court's website at https://sanbernardino.courts.ca.gov/system/files/civil/s17idcorder.pdf, fetched 2026-10-03.

Summary

Department S17's order re informal discovery conferences (Joseph T. Ortiz, dated the 13th day of September, 2024): IDCs are available and recommended but not required outside the complex case management order; parties must meet and confer to impasse before seeking one; and the propounding and responding parties attend electronically.

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, S-17 San Bernardino, CA 92415 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO, SAN BERNARDINO DISTRICT Plaintiffs, v Defendant, Case No.: CIVSB ORDER RE INFORMAL DISCOVERY CONFERENCES THE COURT ORDERS THE FOLLOWING: Informal Discovery Conferences (IDCs) are available and recommended to help resolve discovery disputes.

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/s17idcorder.pdf (69218 bytes, sha256 a6617c42e0ace596f81034e3b98a8fc30ffcb9a6f0dbf9452c39e21036823325; 2 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.