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Habeas corpus petitions challenging isolation or quarantine orders of the county Public Health Officer during a declared emergency are filed in the Central Courthouse and assigned to the Presiding Judge (or Assistant Presiding Judge), who may assign them to the criminal or civil supervising judges. In effect for 2026.
California > Fourth Appellate District > San Diego County > Superior Court of California, County of San Diego
[File stamp: FILED, Clerk of the Superior Court, DEC 31 2025, By: G. Arce-Barraza, Deputy] SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO CENTRAL DIVISION IN RE ASSIGNMENT OF CASES SEEKING WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS CHALLENGING CERTAIN ISOLATION OR QUARANTINE ORDERS GENERAL ORDER OF THE PRESIDING DEPARTMENT ORDER NO. 010126-31 Pursuant to California Rules of Court, rule 10.603, notwithstanding any local rule or other provision of law to the contrary, to ensure the efficient handling of petitions for writs of habeas corpus challenging certain isolation or quarantine orders issued by the Public Health Officer of the County of San Diego or his/her designee in response to a communicable or infectious disease outbreak that has been declared an emergency pursuant to the California Emergency Services Act, the court HEREBY FINDS AND ORDERS AS FOLLOWS: Any petition seeking a writ of habeas corpus under Penal Code section 1473, or other relief, that challenges isolation, quarantine, or other orders issued by the Public Health Officer of the County of San Diego or his/her designee in response to a communicable or infectious disease outbreak resulting in a declared emergency shall be filed in the Central Courthouse and assigned to the Presiding Judge or, in the event the Presiding Judge is unavailable, to the Assistant Presiding Judge. The Presiding Judge may also assign any and/or all such writs of habeas corpus, for all purposes, to the Supervising Judge of Criminal, the Supervising Judge of Civil, or the Assistant Supervising Judge of Criminal, located at the Central Courthouse, 1100 Union Street, San Diego, California. This order shall become effective on January 1, 2026, and expire on December 31, 2026, unless otherwise ordered by this court. IT IS SO ORDERED. DATED: December 31, 2025 [signature] HONORABLE MAUREEN F. HALLAHAN PRESIDING JUDGE
[File stamp: FILED, Clerk of the Superior Court, DEC 31 2025, By: G. Arce-Barraza, Deputy] SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO CENTRAL DIVISION IN RE ASSIGNMENT OF CASES SEEKING WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS CHALLENGING CERTAIN ISOLATION OR QUARANTINE ORDERS GENERAL ORDER OF THE PRESIDING DEPARTMENT ORDER NO. 010126-31 Pursuant to California Rules of Court, rule 10.603, notwithstanding any l
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-28 (California T3 San Diego build) from BenchPath custody ca/t3/ca-san-diego/go/general_order_010126-31.pdf (71380 bytes, sha256 e5f37ed364991d7c557cf74857185a00ad09cfbe77034d94ab2cd068421a3257; 2 pages) - the court's own posted PDF, a scan with no usable text layer: transcribed from the rendered page images, every page read against the image; a machine reading (RapidOCR) was used only as a second reader for a word-level diff; every quotation mark, apostrophe, dash and section sign checked in full-resolution crops; pleading line numbers and “///” fill marks omitted; the file stamp and signature bracketed. Printed irregularities are kept as printed.
9 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-10.
6 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-13.