Siskiyou Superior Court Document Format Requirements

CRITICAL

A hardship request to be excused from jury service must be made in writing by the prospective juror.

A request to be excused from jury service for hardship must be from the prospective juror and must be in writing.

CRITICAL

Format

PDF

E-filed documents must be PDFs that are text searchable and viewable on a standard PDF viewer.

Documents submitted through E-Filing must be in PDF Format, text searchable, and viewable on any standard PDF viewer.

CRITICAL

E-filed documents of at least 10 pages that contain multiple exhibits or sections must include bookmarks titled for the corresponding exhibits or sections.

All documents equal to or exceeding 10 pages and containing multiple exhibits or sections must be bookmarked with the title of the corresponding exhibit or section.

CRITICAL

All electronically submitted documents must include page numbers.

All documents submitted electronically must include page numbers.

CRITICAL

Records must be double-sided, consecutively numbered, three-hole punched, and placed in a three-ring binder labeled with the case caption and number on its spine and front.

The record must be prepared for filing as follows: it must be copied onto double-sided pages, each page consecutively numbered (including any transcript pages prepared by a court reporter), with three holes punched into the left- hand margin and all pages placed into a three-ring binder, the outside of which, on both the spine and front of the binder, must bear the caption of the matter and the case number.

CRITICAL

Jury instructions covering law disclosed by the pleadings must be delivered in writing to the trial judge before voir dire, unless the judge indicates otherwise.

Pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure §607a, all jury instructions covering the law as disclosed by the pleadings must be delivered in writing to the trial judge before jury voir dire commences, unless indicated by the judge.

CRITICAL

Modified desired CACI instructions must be identified by number, marked as modified, and provided in modified form to the trial judge.

Desired CACI instructions in which deletions, strikeouts, insertions or other changes have been made must be referenced by number, and must carry a notation that there has been a modification thereto; and a copy of the instruction, as modified, must be provided to the trial judge.

CRITICAL

Pretrial motions, supporting documents, opposition papers, and hearings must comply with California Rules of Court, Rule 4.111.

All such motions and supporting documents, opposition papers, and the hearings thereon must be in compliance with Rule 4.111 of the California Rules of Court.

CRITICAL

Pretrial motions and supporting or opposition documents must follow the form and format requirements of California Rules of Court, Rule 2.100 et seq.

The form and format of all motions, and supporting or opposition documents, must be as required by the California Rules of Court and, specifically, Rule 2.100 et seq.

CRITICAL

The judicial signature location must be at the end of the order or judgment, with no attachment, exhibit, or rider afterward.

The place provided for the judicial signature must appear at the end of the order or judgment. No attachment, exhibit, or rider is permitted after the judicial signature.

WARNING

A Family Law Facilitator complaint or objection must be made in writing.

Pursuant to California Rule of Court, Rule 5.430(g), any person who wishes to make a complaint or objection regarding the performance of the Family Law Facilitator shall make such a complaint in writing and shall file it with the Court Executive Officer within sixty (60) days of the last event leading to the complaint.

WARNING

Requests to release adoption-related information in the Court’s files must use an Appendix 5 form.

The procedure for release of information that may be contained in this Court’s files and that relates to adoptions is as set forth in Appendix 5. Only the forms set forth in Appendix 5 may be used in making requests for release of such information.

WARNING

Papers supporting or opposing a motion or application must comply with the specified California Rules of Court formatting rules.

All papers filed in support of or in opposition to a motion or other application for an order must comply with Rules 2.100 – 2.119, Rule 3.1110, and Rules 3.1112 – 3.1115 of the California Rules of Court.

WARNING

Additional proposed instructions on questions developed by the evidence may be delivered to the judge and served on opposing sides before argument begins.

Thereafter, but before commencement of argument, any additional proposed instructions upon questions developed by the evidence and not disclosed by the pleadings may be delivered to the trial judge and served upon the opposing side or sides.

WARNING

Supplemental material may be attached to a printed order form designed for attachments if the judicial signature is at the end of the last attachment and the form states that the document is executed there.

Some printed forms of orders or decrees are designed to permit the attachment of supplemental material; if such form is utilized, attachments will be permitted if the judicial signature appears at the end of the last attachment, and the form itself includes the information that the document is executed at the end of the last attachment.

WARNING

The judicial signature line may not appear alone on a page, and document pagination must be adjusted to prevent that.

The signature line must not appear on a page by itself, and pagination of documents must be adjusted accordingly.

INFO

An Appellate Division opinion may be filed after the panel has signed it in counterpart and may take the form of a facsimile document bearing any panel member’s signature.

An Appellate Division opinion may be filed after it has been signed in counterpart by the appellate panel and may be in the form of a facsimile transmission document bearing the signature of any panel member.

INFO

A summary-of-account form is suggested in Appendix 6 and Probate Code §1061.

A suggested form of summary of account is set forth in Appendix 6 of these Rules, and in Probate Code §1061.