Monterey Superior Court Document Format Requirements

All motions and briefs must conform to the California Rules of Court, including Rule 3.1113.

All motions and briefs shall conform to California Rules of Court, including rule 3.1113, and indicate on the caption page that this matter has been deemed Complex and is assigned for all purposes to a Complex Litigation Judge.

Paper and electronic versions of the same document, transcript, or record must have consistent pagination.

When a document, transcript, or record is served in both paper format and electronic format, the pagination must be consistent for both versions.

Electronically filed document pages must be consecutively numbered in Arabic numerals beginning with 1 on the first page.

Pagination. Document pages must be consecutively numbered using only the Arabic numbering system (such as 1, 2, 3), beginning with the number 1 on the first page of the document.

Format

PDF

Every electronically filed document must be a text-searchable PDF.

All documents filed electronically must be in electronic text-searchable portable document format (PDF).

Format

PDF

Electronic exhibits must contain properly linked and descriptively titled bookmarks for each exhibit and may be rejected if those bookmarks are absent.

4. Exhibits. Electronic exhibits must include electronic bookmarks with links to the first page of each exhibit and with bookmark titles that identify the exhibit number or letter and briefly describe the exhibit. Electronic exhibits not so bookmarked are subject to rejection.

Orders must be submitted as separate documents and may not be included within a petition, application, or motion.

Orders must be separate documents. Orders may not be included in the body of a petition, application, or motion.

An order may not have a blank judicial signature page after its text; the signature-page footer must include the case name and case number.

Orders may not include a blank judicial signature page following the text on an order. Use footers on the signature page which would include the case name and case number.

Motions and briefs in complex litigation must conform to the California Rules of Court, including rule 3.1113.

All motions and briefs shall conform to California Rules of Court, including rule 3.1113, and indicate on the caption page that this matter has been deemed Complex and is assigned for all purposes to a Complex Litigation Judge.

The Trial Management Report must use California legal format, include the full case caption, and be typed or computer printed on pleading paper.

The “Trial Management Report” and “Brief” shall provide the information requested below. The Report shall be prepared according to California legal format and shall contain the full case caption. The Report shall be typed or computer printed on pleading paper.

Format

PAPER

One copy of the proposed instructions must be prepared on plain paper, kept separate from argument or authorities, and submitted without identifying who presented it.

One (1) copy shall be prepared on plain paper, separate from argument or authorities, and shall not indicate by whom the instructions are presented.

Proposed jury instructions must be fully edited, contain no blank lines or unused bracketed portions, and be submitted in duplicate.

All proposed instructions shall be fully edited without any blank lines or unused bracketed portions and submitted in duplicate.

Format

PAPER

Verdict forms must be prepared on plain pleading paper without identifying who presented them.

The verdict forms shall be prepared on plain pleading paper and shall not indicate by whom the verdict forms are presented.

All documents submitted for filing must conform to the form and format requirements in California Rules of Court, rule 2.100(b) et seq.

All documents submitted for filing must conform to the form/format requirements set forth in California Rules of Court, rule 2.100(b) et. seq.

Parties must lodge the administrative record electronically in the department where the matter will be heard as soon as practicable after certification and at least 30 days before the merits hearing.

Parties shall lodge any administrative record in electronic format only (e.g., a thumb drive or CD-ROM) in the department in which the matter will be heard, as soon as is practicable after the record has been certified but in no event less than 30 days before the hearing on the merits.

Format

PDF

Each administrative-record section must be contained in a separate, searchable, electronically bookmarked PDF file.

(findings, EIR, initial study, staff reports, transcripts, the remainder of the record.) Each section shall be contained in individual, searchable, electronically bookmarked .PDF files.

The electronic joint appendix must be divided into files of no more than 200 pages each.

The joint appendix shall be divided into individual files not to exceed 200 pages.

An order's judicial signature line must appear after the order's text.

The judicial signature line shall be included following the text of an order.

An order may not contain a signature line on a blank page.

Signature lines may not be inserted on a blank page.

The judicial signature page's footer must identify the case name, case number, and document title.

Judicial signature page must include the case name, case number and title of the document in the footer.

Applies to

Filing

Hyperlinks included in a filing must be active and should follow the standard citation format prescribed by California Rules of Court, rule 1.200.

3. If a party or attorney elects to include hyperlinks in a filing, the hyperlink shall be active and should be formatted to standard citation format as provided in California Rules of Court, rule 1.200.

The administrative record must be organized into discrete, logical sections.

The administrative record shall be divided into discrete, logical sections.

Format

PDF

Each administrative-record PDF file must be named so that it identifies the record portion contained in that file.

Each file name shall reference the portion of the record contained therein, e.g., “Administrative Record Volume 1 (AR 1-195).pdf.”

Pages in the courtesy appendix must be arranged numerically or, when not numerical, tabbed.

The administrative record pages in the Appendix shall either be in numerical order, or if not in numerical order, tabbed.