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San Bernardino County Superior Court — Department S28 - Permissible Discovery in Lemon Law Cases

High confidence· verified October 7, 2026Judge PreferencesDepartment S28 - Permissible Discovery in Lemon Law Cases, Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino; posted on the court's website at https://sanbernardino.courts.ca.gov/system/files/civil/s28permissiblediscoveryinlemonlawcases.pdf, fetched 2026-10-03.

Summary

Department S28's list of the discovery the parties are entitled to in lemon law cases: the purchase or lease contract; repair orders and invoices; communications with the dealer, factory representative or call center; warranty claims; the warranty policy and procedure manual; internal analyses of the claimed defects; repurchase policies under the Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act; similar customer complaints; Technical Service Bulletins or Recall Notices; and documents supporting incidental and consequential damages.

Applies to

California > Fourth Appellate District > San Bernardino County > Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino > Department S28

Source of truth

Permissible Discovery in Lemon Law Cases The parties are entitled to the following: 1. Purchase and/or lease contract concerning the subject vehicle. 2. Repair orders and invoices concerning the subject vehicle. 3. Communications with dealer, factory representative and/or call center concerning the subject vehicle. 4. Warranty claims submitted to and/or approved by defendant concerning the subject

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/s28permissiblediscoveryinlemonlawcases.pdf (34272 bytes, sha256 16215e89feb2524f101622c093c39ff74ee4d6b74e9cbf61955a8311a41c0e2d; 1 page) - 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 Michael A. Sachs: the document is Department S28's, and the court's Schedule of Assignments (effective October 1, 2026) places Judge Michael A. Sachs in Department S28.