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San Bernardino County Superior Court — Department S26 - Trial Order for Non-Jury Trials

High confidence· verified October 7, 2026Judge PreferencesDepartment S26 - Trial Order for Non-Jury Trials, Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino; posted on the court's website at https://sanbernardino.courts.ca.gov/system/files/civil/s26trialorderfornonjurytrials.pdf, fetched 2026-10-03.

Summary

Department S26's standing trial order and trial procedures for non-jury trial (Kevin Lee, dated the 20th day of January, 2026): meeting and conferring at least 10 court days before the trial readiness conference; the joint trial binder (table of contents, trial brief, operative pleadings, joint exhibit and witness lists, the issues, motions in limine under Local Rule 415); the joint exhibit binder; the transcript binder; witnesses and scheduling; interpreters provided by the parties; and the parties' own court reporter.

Applies to

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

Source of truth

Superior Court of the State of California County of San Bernardino 247 W. Third St SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO TO ALL PARTIES FOR NON-JURY TRIAL STANDING TRIAL ORDER AND TRIAL PROCEDURES FOR NON-JURY TRIAL TO EACH PARTY AND TO THE ATTORNEY(S) OF RECORD FOR EACH PARTY: All parties are ordered to familiarize themselves with all aspects of the Standing Trial Ord

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/s26trialorderfornonjurytrials.pdf (92484 bytes, sha256 356612706affee21a6c5d7bc948975066bb16618cfd110d7d56e3d247d8f6ec4; 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 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. Review note: The order provides that parties needing an interpreter provide their own; Local Rule 332 and the court's Court Interpreters page provide for interpreters requested from the court. A review task asks the court which governs.