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San Bernardino County Superior Court — Department S32 - Trial Requirements Orders

High confidence· verified October 7, 2026Judge PreferencesDepartment S32 - Trial Requirements Orders, Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino; posted on the court's website at https://sanbernardino.courts.ca.gov/system/files/civil/s32trialrequirementsorders.pdf, fetched 2026-10-03.

Summary

Department S32's requirements for trial: settlement conference briefs filed in the department at least 5 days before (CRC 3.1380 and Local Rules 610-617), with parties who have authority to settle present; the documents filed at the readiness calendar and not before (CRC 3.1548 and LR 411: motions in limine served 8 days before, joint witness and exhibit lists and exhibits in two binders, proposed CACI instructions, the joint statement of the case, any special verdict form, voir dire questions, stipulated facts and the trial brief); and the sua sponte rulings for trial.

Applies to

California > Fourth Appellate District > San Bernardino County > Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino > Department S32

Source of truth

REQUIREMENTS FOR TRIAL DEPARTMENT S32 Settlement Conferences: Parties with authority to settle must appear. Briefs should be filed in the Department at least 5 days before SC. [CRC 3.1380 & SBC Local Rule 610-617.] AT TIME OF READINESS CALENDAR Documents to be filed in the Department [CRC 3.1548 &SBC LR 411]: ALL OF THE ITEMS BELOW ARE TO BE SUBMITTED AT THE READINESS CALENDAR, NOT BEFORE. 1. Moti

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/s32trialrequirementsorders.pdf (125162 bytes, sha256 26da87df9aa4d8b449a896b19da72e8f1339d0cea27a0a0fde6b92e0aa48574f; 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 Wilfred J. Schneider, Jr.: the document is Department S32's, and the court's Schedule of Assignments (effective October 1, 2026) places Judge Wilfred J. Schneider, Jr. in Department S32.