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San Mateo County Superior Court — Department 2 (Judge Mark A. McCannon) Case Management Order No. 1 for Complex Cases

High confidence· verified October 8, 2026Judge PreferencesDepartment 2 (Judge Mark A. McCannon) Case Management Order No. 1 for Complex Cases, Superior Court of California, County of San Mateo; posted on the court's Department Info of Judge Mark A. McCannon page (https://sanmateo.courts.ca.gov/divisions/civil-division/civil-department-judges/department-info-judge-mark-mccannon) at https://sanmateo.courts.ca.gov/system/files/civil/cmc-order-complex-cases-department-2.pdf, fetched 2026-10-08.

Summary

Department 2's Case Management Order No. 1 for complex cases: general matters; filings and correspondence; case management conferences on Wednesday afternoons; ex parte applications; discovery; law and motion; settlement conferences and mediations; and the pretrial deadlines - meet and confer 21 days before the PTC; serve, but not file, motions in limine, witness lists, exhibit lists, deposition designations, jury instructions and verdict forms 5 days before the PTC; file and deliver hard copies of the joint pretrial conference statement and the binders 3 court days before the PTC; the Pretrial Conference 14 days before Trial; three (3) sets of joint trial exhibit binders and thumb drives the day of Trial - with the meet and confer and exhibit requirements.

Applies to

California > First Appellate District > San Mateo County > Superior Court of California, County of San Mateo > Department 2

Source of truth

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN MATEO , Plaintiff, v. , Defendants. Case No. Assigned for all purposes to: Hon. Mark A. McCannon CASE MANAGEMENT ORDER NO. 1 Pursuant to the order entered on __________________ assigning this case – which had been previously designated as complex – for all purposes to Judge Mark A. McCannon in Department 2 of this Court, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED

Official source: Superior Court of California, County of San Mateo — court website
Source health: Healthy · checked September 28, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: October 8, 2026benchpath-ca-t4-san-mateo-2026-10-08

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-08 (California T4 San Mateo build 2026-10-08) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-san-mateo/docs/civil/cmc-order-complex-cases-department-2.pdf (550208 bytes, sha256 59225cc635323e84f0f21f18a587f26515513bec618e59470f9f0d83aa566a4f; 27 pages) with the shared verbatim composer (v2 reflow): page marks and running headers or footers removed as chrome; lines reflowed into the document's paragraphs; proof 1 (whitespace-only) and proof 2 (same character multiset as the text layer minus chrome) pass. Documented settings (whitespace-only or same-character changes; the proofs hold): the pretrial deadline table and the sample exhibit and witness lists, ruled tables, set cell by cell (tables=True), the table's numbered and lettered requirements each on its own line, the running footer (the page number, “CMO NO. 1”) removed and the signature's two lines set apart (18 whitespace fixes); the sample exhibit list's header cells “Date marked” and “Date admitted” set as two cells and the caption set cell by cell (two same-character fixes). Attached to Judge Mark A. McCannon: the card is Department 2's, where the court's Directory of Judges (effective August 3, 2026) seats Judge Mark A. McCannon.