7 verbatim requirements from administrative order 2024-08-01 - Amended Order Governing Assignment of Cases in all Divisions of Circuit and County Courts.
9th Judicial Circuit. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from https://ninthcircuit.org/sites/default/files/AO2024-08-01.pdf, harvested 2026-07-25; whitespace normalised only. • Administration, effective immediately, unless otherwise provided herein, to continue until further order and superseding any provisions in prior Administrative Orders that may be inconsistent, it is ORDERED the following procedures shall govern the assignment or reassignment of cases within both Orange and • Any action, whether civil, criminal, juvenile, probate division, or any case filed within any subdivision of the County Court, between the same parties, which was formerly assigned to another subdivision which is dismissed, abated, or nolle prosequi and thereafter refiled, shall be reassigned by the • It shall be the primary duty of the party or that party’s attorney who has refiled the case to bring to the -- 1 of 3 -- • However, all parties or attorneys in the refiled case shall have this duty also. • All such motions shall be filed in the underlying cases and forwarded to the Chief Judge or the Administrative Judge for the • Should the motion to transfer be granted, the judge to whom the case(s) is reassigned shall determine if the case(s) shall be consolidated with the lower numbered case. • When one case is pending in a county subdivision and one case is pending in the same circuit division which might be appropriately considered or tried together, the motion shall be ruled on by the assigned circuit judge.
Administration, effective immediately, unless otherwise provided herein, to continue until further order and superseding any provisions in prior Administrative Orders that may be inconsistent, it is ORDERED the following procedures shall govern the assignment or reassignment of cases within both Orange and
Reviewer note: Order PDF sha256: 84bc269dfa772c8a22854afce90493fcf81f5a93711e17f9da71cf0660cd5a90. Extracted from the order's own text layer.
Judge Bell caps motions and responses at 5 pages for UMC hearings and 12 pages for special-set hearings.
Judge Alijewicz requires every motion for attorney's fees and/or costs to attach a document detailing time records — no records, no fee award.
Judge Corlew bars informal contact: every communication with the Court must be in writing, filed with the Clerk, with copies furnished to all parties — and no calls to the JA to schedule or cancel UMC.