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Department 44: the daily schedule - ex parte applications at 8:30 a.m., case management Monday - Friday, and law and motion by matter type (arbitration petitions Mondays, pleadings challenges Tuesdays, writ trials Tuesdays at 1:30 p.m., discovery Wednesdays, class and PAGA settlement approval Wednesdays at 1:30 p.m., summary judgment and class certification Thursdays); case management, complex (CRC 3.400) and class actions, writ proceedings and CEQA (LR, Chapter 28); ex parte applications, a limit of 2 per day, reserved by 10 a.m. the court day before and filed by noon; the Zoom registration rules; informal discovery conferences (LR 8.10); law and motion; summary judgment and class certification, no more than 2 motions per week, with chambers copies; tentative rulings and submission by email before 8:00 a.m.; pretrial conferences with a joint statement 5 court days before; and trial rules - trial documents emailed 5 court days before but no more than 30 days before, chambers copies, joint stipulations, witness and exhibit lists, no more than 5 MILs per side, writ trial documents and the administrative record, jury fees, court reporters, exhibits, jury instructions and questionnaires, six-pack jury selection and the trial schedule.
California > Second Appellate District > Ventura County > Superior Court of California, County of Ventura > Courtroom 44
SUPERIOR COURT of CALIFORNIA, COUNTY of VENTURA DEPARTMENT 44 RULES & PROCEDURES1 (Revised August 24, 2026) I. PRE-TRIAL RULES & PROCEDURE A. General Information Ex Parte Applications: Heard daily at 8:30 a.m., generally called before other matters Daily Hearing Schedule: Case management, Monday – Friday, 8:30 a.m. Law & Motion Matter Type Monday (8:30 a.m.) Petitions / Motions to Compel Arbitrati
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-07 (California T4 Ventura build 2026-10-07) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-ventura/docs/general/department-44-rules-procedures.pdf (227646 bytes, sha256 5f8ae90aa7abd5c1e398080c31c403a29b46e9a8c5ddeebbba754306e65f4585; 8 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. Documented settings (whitespace-only or same-character changes; the proofs hold): the two-line title set as two lines; the ex parte table's Reservation and Filing Deadline rows and the registration table's two last rows set apart as printed (whitespace fixes); the registration table's link row, which prints no vertical rules, set as printed - the instruction, then the registration address the print breaks after a hyphen, joined (the same characters, reordered). Attached to Judge Charmaine H. Buehner: the document is Courtroom 44's, and the court's Judicial Assignments page for the Ventura Courthouse (effective as of August 31, 2026) seats Judge Charmaine H. Buehner in Courtroom 44. Review note: The Remote Appearances page lists Department 44's rules and Zoom protocols as revised March 4, 2026; the files it serves (and the copies on www2.ventura.courts.ca.gov) are revised August 24, 2026. The rules refer indigent parties to “Admin Order 18.06”, which the court's Administrative Orders page does not list (a review task). Published as printed: “CCP 375.75” and “CRC 3.670 & 2.672”; “Met and confer”; “Peremptory challenges may be made to the remaining 18 jurors”.
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