Rule 8.702. Appeals

Unless otherwise ordered by the reviewing court, all briefs must be electronically filed.

Five court days after the superior court clerk serves on the party filing the notice of appeal a document entitled "Notice of Entry" of judgment or a filed-endorsed copy of the judgment, showing the date either was served;

Five court days after the party filing the notice of appeal serves or is served by a party with a document entitled "Notice of Entry" of judgment or a filed-endorsed copy of the judgment, accompanied by proof of service.

Five court days after the superior court clerk or a party serves an order denying the motion or a notice of entry of that order;

Five court days after denial of the motion by operation of law.

If a party timely serves and files a valid notice or motion to vacate and the motion is denied, all parties have five court days after service of the denial order or its notice of entry to appeal the judgment.

If any party serves and files a valid motion to reconsider an appealable order under Code of Civil Procedure section 1008, subdivision (a), the time to appeal from that order is extended for all parties until five court days after the superior court clerk or a party serves an order denying the motion or a notice of entry of that order.

If an appellant timely appeals from a judgment or appealable order, the time for any other party to appeal from the same judgment or order is extended until five court days after the superior court clerk serves notification of the first appeal.

An appellant in an appeal under this chapter must file the rule 8.121 notice designating the record with its notice of appeal.

Within five days after service of the notice, another party may submit to the trial court the specified deposit, reporter’s written waiver, or certified transcript.

Within 10 days after the superior court notifies the court reporter to prepare the transcript under rule 8.130(d)(2), the reporter must prepare and certify an original of the transcript and file the original and required number of copies in superior court.

A party identified in the clerk’s default notice must perform the required record-procurement act within two court days after service, or the reviewing court may impose a listed sanction.

Within five court days following the filing of a notice of appeal under this rule, the superior court clerk must:

An appellant must serve and file its opening brief within 25 days after the notice of appeal is served and filed.

A respondent must serve and file its brief within 25 days after the appellant files its opening brief.

An appellant must serve and file its reply brief, if any, within 15 days after the respondent files its brief.

The revised brief must be served and filed within 10 days after the reporter’s transcript is filed.

Unless the court orders otherwise, each party must submit the electronic version within five days after filing its brief.

After the clerk serves a default notice for an untimely opening or respondent’s brief, the party has two court days to file the brief before the court may impose a listed sanction.

Unless otherwise ordered by the reviewing court, oral argument will be held within 45 days after the last reply brief is filed.

The reviewing court clerk must send a notice of the time and place of oral argument to all parties at least 15 days before the argument date.

Five court days after the superior court clerk serves on the party filing the notice of appeal a document entitled "Notice of Entry" of judgment or a filed-endorsed copy of the judgment, showing the date either was served;

Five court days after the party filing the notice of appeal serves or is served by a party with a document entitled "Notice of Entry" of judgment or a filed-endorsed copy of the judgment, accompanied by proof of service.

An appellant in an appeal under this chapter must serve the rule 8.121 notice designating the record with its notice of appeal.

Any party that submits a copy of a Transcript Reimbursement Fund application in lieu of a deposit under rule 8.130(b)(3) must serve all other parties with notice of this submission when the party serves its notice of designation of the record.

If a party defaults on the specified record-procurement duties, the superior court clerk must serve notice requiring the party to cure within two court days, or the reviewing court may impose a listed sanction.

Notification of the filing of the notice of appeal; and

A copy of the register of actions, if any.

An appellant must serve and file its opening brief within 25 days after the notice of appeal is served and filed.

A respondent must serve and file its brief within 25 days after the appellant files its opening brief.

An appellant must serve and file its reply brief, if any, within 15 days after the respondent files its brief.

The revised brief must be served within 10 days after the reporter’s transcript is filed.

If a party fails to timely file an appellant's opening brief or a respondent's brief, the reviewing court clerk must serve the party with a notice indicating that if the required brief is not filed within two court days of service of the clerk's notice, the court may impose one of the following sanctions:

The reviewing court clerk must send a notice of the time and place of oral argument to all parties at least 15 days before the argument date.

The presiding justice may shorten the notice period for good cause; in that event, the clerk must immediately notify the parties by telephone or other expeditious method.

The record of the written documents from the superior court proceedings other than the administrative record must be in the form of a joint appendix or separate appellant's and respondent's appendixes under rule 8.124.

The briefs must comply as nearly as possible with rule 8.204.

Such briefs must comply with any local requirements of the reviewing court relating to e-briefs.

State that the superior court judgment or order being appealed is governed by the rules in this chapter;

Indicate whether the judgment or order pertains a streamlined CEQA project;

If the appealed judgment or order concerns one of the listed project types, the notice of appeal must notify the applicant that it must make the payments required by rule 8.705.

If the judgment or order being appealed pertains to an environmental leadership transit project, provide notice that the project applicant must make the payments required by rule 8.705.

The appellant must serve and file with its notice of appeal a notice designating the record under rule 8.121 specifying whether the appellant elects to proceed with or without a record of the oral proceedings in the trial court.

If the appellant elects to proceed with a record of the oral proceedings in the trial court, the notice must designate a reporter's transcript.

A copy of the notice of appeal;

A copy of the appellant's notice designating the record; and

An electronic copy of the administrative record.

If the designated reporter’s transcript has not been filed at least five days before the brief’s filing date, the initial brief may omit volume-and-page citations for transcript matters.

Within 10 days after the reporter’s transcript is filed, the party must serve and file a revised brief with volume-and-page citations for every transcript matter.

Unless the court orders otherwise, each party must submit an electronic, hyperlink-containing version of its brief within five days after filing the brief.

When parties stipulate to extend a brief-filing time under rule 8.212(b), they are deemed to accept a matching extension of the statutory action-resolution time and to waive objections to the specified review deadlines for the extension’s duration.