Ventura County Superior Court — Courtroom 42 - Rules &… — CA · BenchPath

Ventura County Superior Court — Courtroom 42 - Rules & Procedures (revised 7/1/2026)

High confidence· verified October 7, 2026Judge PreferencesCourtroom 42 - Rules & Procedures (revised 7/1/2026), Superior Court of California, County of Ventura; posted on the court's Judicial Assignments - Ventura Courthouse page (https://ventura.courts.ca.gov/judicial-assignments-ventura) and the court's Remote Appearances page (https://ventura.courts.ca.gov/remote-appearances) at https://ventura.courts.ca.gov/system/files/courtroom_42_local_rules.pdf, fetched 2026-10-07.

Summary

Courtroom 42, Hon. Ronda J. McKaig: case management and the steps that avoid an OSC re sanctions, preserving a jury trial when fees were not posted by the CMC; ADR Status Conferences with a joint statement five (5) court days before; informal discovery conferences requested by email to courtroom42@ventura.courts.ca.gov, papers of no more than five (5) pages; law and motion at 8:30 a.m., Zoom reservations no later 3 p.m. the court day prior, tentative decisions by 5:00 p.m., summary judgment on Mondays; and trial rules - no e-Delivery of trial documents, witness and exhibit lists exchanged fourteen (14) days before and emailed three (3) court days before, trial briefs and in limine motions of five (5) pages, court reporters, witnesses and Zoom, exhibits, jury instructions and questionnaires, six-pack jury selection and the trial schedule.

Applies to

California > Second Appellate District > Ventura County > Superior Court of California, County of Ventura > Courtroom 42

Source of truth

COURTROOM 42 – RULES & PROCEDURES HON. RONDA J. MCKAIG I. Case Management Counsel and self-represented parties must comply with all applicable rules, statutes and/or deadlines associated with ensuring a case is “at issue.” In particular, litigants shall: • (a) comply with deadlines related to service of summons of complaints and filing proofs of service thereof, • (b) timely file and serve respons

Official source: Superior Court of California, County of Ventura — court website
Source health: Healthy · checked September 28, 2026
Effective date: July 1, 2026
Last verified: October 7, 2026benchpath-ca-t4-ventura-2026-10-07

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-07 (California T4 Ventura build 2026-10-07) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-ventura/docs/courtroom_42_local_rules.pdf (196276 bytes, sha256 5f8062288e4734c8dc63bb12dc6ad09c2e044996b7339c4f9ecafec78066529c; 7 pages) with the shared verbatim composer (v2 reflow): page marks and running headers or footers removed as chrome (a running header or footer kept once where it names or dates the document); lines reflowed into the document's paragraphs; proof 1 (whitespace-only) and proof 2 (same character multiset as the text layer minus chrome) pass. Attached to Judge Ronda J. McKaig: the document is Courtroom 42's, and the court's Judicial Assignments page for the Ventura Courthouse (effective as of August 31, 2026) seats Judge Ronda J. McKaig in Courtroom 42. Review note: The posted rules end with a sentence addressed to a reader - “If you need help summarizing specific deadlines or formatting this into custom court submission forms, let me know how you would like to proceed.” - which is not a rule; the card prints the document as posted (a review task asks for the court's corrected copy). The trial rules number their items 1 to 14, then again from 1; the law and motion paragraph is set in quotation marks; “(pp. 4-5)” and “(pp. 7-8)” appear inside two rules; “no later 3 p.m.”; “self-represented litigations”. The rules refer to Administrative Order No. 18.06, which the court's Administrative Orders page does not list (a review task).