LOCAL RULES - FOURTH APPELATE DISTRICT

Rule 1. Service of Writ Petitions Requesting Immediate Relief

A petition for an extraordinary writ with a request that a stay, injunction, or other form of relief be issued within 15 days shall be accompanied by a declaration establishing:

(1) prior service on the respondent and each real party in interest by (a) personal delivery or (b) facsimile (with the consent of the party so served), or

(2) as to the respondent and each real party in interest not so served (a) why such service could not reasonably be effected, (b) what other efforts were made (e.g., by telephone) to give prompt notice of the request, and (c) prior service by certified or express mail or delivery to a common carrier promising overnight delivery.

When a request that a stay, injunction, or other form of relief be issued within 15 days is bound with or included in the text of any writ petition or any other document, the cover shall bear the conspicuous notation "IMMEDIATE RELIEF REQUESTED" or words of like effect. Such notation shall constitute compliance with California Rules of Court, rule 49.5. If such a notation does not appear on the cover, the court may decline to consider the request for such immediate relief.

(Adopted, eff. Oct. 2, 1983. Amended eff. Sept. 9, 1996.)

Rule 2. Covers on documents filed with the court

The court will not accept for filing any document which has a plastic or acetate cover or which does not conform strictly to rules 9 and 15 of the California Rules of Court.

(Adopted, eff. Oct. 2, 1983.)

Rule 3. Petitions for extraordinary writs (Division One only)

Rule 4. Civil settlement conference procedures (Division Two only)

Rule 5. Payment of Filing Fee in Civil Appeals (Repealed, eff. Sept. 9, 1996.)

Rule 6. Writ Petitions: Supporting Records and Stay Requests (Repealed, eff. Sept. 9, 1996.)

Rule 7. Civil settlement conference procedures (Repealed, eff. Dec. 31, 2003.)

Rule 8. Attachments to briefs (Division One only)

Rule 9. Civil Docketing Statement; Form (Repealed, including form, eff. March 10, 2003)

Rule 10. Stipulation for use of original superior court file

Rule 5.2 of the California Rules of Court, effective July 1, 1989, provides for the use of the original superior court file in lieu of the clerk's transcript on appeal in those civil cases where the parties so stipulate. In accordance with rule 5.2 of the California Rules of Court, the procedure therein is approved for use by the superior courts within this district unless the Court of Appeal orders otherwise in a particular case.

(Adopted, eff. April 26, 1992.)