Yolo Superior Court Electronic Filing Rules

Particles electronically filing and serving documents must comply with California statutory and court-rule electronic filing and service requirements unless this rule states otherwise.

Unless this rule provides otherwise, parties filing and serving documents electronically shall comply with all requirements for electronic filing and service set forth in California Code of Civil Procedure section 1010.6 and Rules 2.250 et. Seq. and 5.552 of the California Rules of Court.

Applies to

All documents

Electronic filing and service are mandatory for documents in civil, probate, and family law cases, except when personal service is legally required and for ex parte applications.

All documents filed in civil, probate and family law cases shall be filed and served electronically, except when personal service is required by statute or rule and excluding ex parte applications.

Applies to

Juvenile dependency case documents

All juvenile dependency case documents other than the initial accusatory pleading must be filed and served electronically.

All documents, excluding the initial accusatory pleading, filed in juvenile dependency cases shall be filed and served electronically.

Every electronically filed document must use one of the court’s approved electronic filing service providers and comply with the court’s electronic filing requirements, regardless of whether filing is mandatory or permissive.

All documents electronically filed, whether mandatory, permissive, by Court order, or by stipulation of parties, must be electronically filed using one of the Court’s approved electronic filing service providers, and must comply with the Court’s electronic filing requirements.

Applies to

Subpoenaed documents

Subpoenaed documents must not be filed electronically.

Subpoenaed documents

Applies to

Labor commissioner deposit

A Labor Commissioner deposit of cash or a check must not be filed electronically.

Labor Commissioner deposit of cash or check

Applies to

Proposed trial exhibits

Proposed trial exhibits may not be filed electronically and must be lodged in paper format with the trial department once assigned, unless the Court instructs otherwise.

Proposed trial exhibits shall not be filed electronically but shall be lodged in paper format with the trial department once assigned unless otherwise instructed by the Court.

An attorney may request an exemption from mandatory electronic filing and service by showing undue hardship or significant prejudice.

An attorney representing a party may request to be excused from the mandatory electronic filing and service requirement by showing undue hardship or significant prejudice.

Inability to pay electronic filing fees does not qualify as undue hardship or significant prejudice for an exemption.

Undue hardship or significant prejudice does not include the inability to pay fees for electronic filing.

A document or exhibit that is unavailable or infeasible to file electronically, or cannot be comprehensively viewed electronically, may be manually filed with the clerk and conventionally served, but the party must electronically file and serve a Notice of Manual Filing describing the document and explaining why it cannot be filed electronically.

(b) A party may be excused from filing any particular document or exhibit electronically if it is not available in electronic format and it is not feasible for the party to convert the document or exhibit to electronic format, or it may not be comprehensively viewed in an electronic format, including but not limited to exhibits that are real objects. Such a document or exhibit may be manually filed with the Clerk of the Court and served upon the parties by conventional non-electronic means. A party manually filing such a document or exhibit shall file electronically and serve a Notice of Manual Filing specifically describing the document or exhibit and setting forth the reason the document or exhibit cannot be filed electronically.

Self-represented parties and non-parties are exempt from mandatory electronic filing and service and are encouraged to participate electronically.

Self-represented parties and non-parties are exempt from the mandatory electronic filing and service requirements but are encouraged to participate.

Applies to

Criminal and juvenile delinquency case documents

Documents other than the initial accusatory pleading in criminal and juvenile delinquency cases may be filed and served electronically.

All documents, excluding the initial accusatory pleading, filed in criminal and juvenile delinquency cases may be filed and served electronically.