Official rule; awaiting reverification against the current source text. Verify with the clerk, judicial assistant, or official court website before relying on it.
2 verbatim requirements from administrative order 2025-15-03 - Amended Order of Assignment of Alternate Judges of the Circuit Court for 2026.
9th Judicial Circuit. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from https://ninthcircuit.org/sites/default/files/AO2025-15-03%20ADAC.pdf, harvested 2026-07-25; whitespace normalised only. • If both the Judge to whom the action is assigned and the Judge’s alternate are unavailable, the matter shall be presented to the Administrative Judge of that Division. • Administrative Judge of that Division is not available to hear the matter, it shall be presented to the Chief Judge.
If both the Judge to whom the action is assigned and the Judge’s alternate are unavailable, the matter shall be presented to the Administrative Judge of that Division.
Reviewer note: Order PDF sha256: 24a4807c8840f6d9784174cfe6d83126d02548e4cb4dd9e969bde9c2bccf5e5c. Extracted from the order's own text layer. | Set to in_review 2026-07-26: the order's subject looks practitioner-facing but the extracted text captured only recitals or an effective date, not the operative ORDERED section. This is an extraction defect, not a judgement that the order is unimportant — it needs re-extraction before it goes back on the published surface. | Re-extraction 2026-07-26: the operative section was located, but every paragraph in it is OCR of a scanned typescript too corrupt to quote verbatim. No requirement is published from it. The order remains held and sha256-hashed as a source document. PUBLISHED 2026-09-02 (July-hold adjudication by full text): where a circuit matter goes when the assigned judge and the alternate are unavailable — an operative hearing-presentation rule.
2 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1986-33A.
1 verbatim requirement from Fourth Circuit administrative order 2003-06.