Department N-18 Trial / Long RFO Requirements and Guidelines… — San Diego County, CA · BenchPath

Department N-18 Trial / Long RFO Requirements and Guidelines for Remote Witnesses — Hon. Renee N.G. Stackhouse

High confidence· verified September 28, 2026Judge PreferencesDepartment N-18 Trial / Long RFO Requirements and Guidelines for Remote Witnesses — Hon. Renee N.G. Stackhouse, Superior Court of California, County of San Diego; linked from the Department N-18 policies document (https://www.sdcourt.ca.gov/sites/default/files/sdcourt/generalinformation/localrulesofcourt/rocdepartmentrules/departmentn18/department_18_rules.pdf) at https://www.sdcourt.ca.gov/sites/default/files/sdcourt/generalinformation/localrulesofcourt/rocdepartmentrules/departmentn18/Dept_18_LC_and_RM_Requirements.pdf, fetched 2026-09-28.

Summary

Department NC-18's trial and long-cause request-for-order requirements (the trial notebook due five court days before trial, trial brief, pre-marked exhibits, exhibit and witness lists, court reporters, with exhibit list and tag examples) and its guidelines for remote appearances of witnesses at trials and long RFOs.

Applies to

California > Fourth Appellate District > San Diego County > Superior Court of California, County of San Diego > Department N-18

Source of truth

JUDGE RENEE N.G. STACKHOUSE DEPARTMENT NC-18 TRIAL / LONG RFO REQUIREMENTS Five court days before the trial or hearing, the Court requires a trial notebook (notebook may be joint or individual) that includes the following be delivered to the courtroom Clerk. 1. Copy of Trial/RFO Brief - Pursuant to California Rules of Court 5.393 and 5.394 and San Diego Superior Court Local Rule 5.8.2, the parties

Official source: Superior Court of California, County of San Diego — local rules (Judicial Council index listing)
Source health: Healthy · checked September 28, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 28, 2026benchpath-ca-t3-sd-2026-09-28

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-28 (California T3 San Diego build) from BenchPath custody ca/t3/ca-san-diego/dept/companion/c33-Dept_18_LC_and_RM_Requirements.pdf (217753 bytes, sha256 b624ee0e3b0e9ed7086940b8b404fe4c8e82ad4681a03b250a86a1e720590972; 3 pages) - page 1 is a page image under an OCR text layer (transcribed from the image; the OCR layer's errors such as “A, 8, C” corrected; en dashes and curly apostrophes checked in crops); pages 2–3 are born-digital and composed with the shared composer, both proofs passing. Linked from inside the Department N-18 policies document (link text “here.”). Reflow correction 2026-09-29: 11 line breaks that fell inside a sentence are joined (whitespace only; the characters are unchanged) - the shared composer now continues a line that ends in a function word, or one followed by a lower-case line across a wide line pitch, and reads “v.” after a name as part of a case name.