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San Bernardino County Superior Court — Department S26 - Courtroom Rules, Trial Orders, and Sua Sponte Rulings

High confidence· verified October 7, 2026Judge PreferencesDepartment S26 - Courtroom Rules, Trial Orders, and Sua Sponte Rulings, Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino; posted on the court's website at https://sanbernardino.courts.ca.gov/system/files/civil/s26courtroomrulesandtrialorders.pdf, fetched 2026-10-03.

Summary

Department S26's courtroom rules, trial orders and sua sponte rulings: civility; no speaking objections; the parties' court reporter, with realtime required for trial; informal discovery conferences offered but not required; MSC statements submitted in S26 three court days before the MSC; trial documents, exhibits, jury instructions (CRC Rule 2.1055) and motions in limine (Local Rule 415); the trial day; witnesses, exhibits and publication; and the exclusion of discovery not timely produced.

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California > Fourth Appellate District > San Bernardino County > Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino > Department S26

Source of truth

COURTROOM RULES, TRIAL ORDERS, and SUA SPONTE RULINGS SAN BERNARDINO SUPERIOR COURT DEPT S26 THE COURT ORDERS AS FOLLOWS: 1. Counsel, witnesses, and parties are to be civil and polite at all times towards opposing counsel, parties, witnesses, and all court personnel. Counsel are to be familiar with the Civility Code of the San Bernardino County Bar Association and the Hon. Joseph B. Campbell Ameri

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/s26courtroomrulesandtrialorders.pdf (1808713 bytes, sha256 e88130033526738606d1f6ed84c25a28b653e90450335b28645326a15820ace2; 3 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 Kevin C. Lee: the document is Department S26's, and the court's Schedule of Assignments (effective October 1, 2026) places Judge Kevin C. Lee in Department S26.