El Dorado County trial document templates
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15 documents, 24 required sections, taken from Superior Court of California, County of El Dorado’s own published rules and read 2026-09-14. Each one downloads as California pleading paper with this court’s required sections already placed, so the document cannot silently omit one.
A blank template is easy to find anywhere. What is hard to find is which sections this court requires inside the document, because that lives in a local rule nobody indexes. Every heading below is cited to the subdivision it came from, and the rule’s own sentence prints beside it in the reference sheet so you can check your work.
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The reference sheet below carries everything this court requires, each rule quoted from its own text and cited to the subdivision. The pleading paper templates are temporarily down while the line numbering is rebuilt, because the rail did not line up with the body text and a pleading whose lines cannot be cited is worse than no template at all.
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- Statement of Damages
- Response to Statement of Damages
- Dispute Resolution Conference Statement
- Settlement Conference Statement
- Motion in Limine
- Issues Conference Statement
- Statement of the Case
- Proposed Voir Dire
- Joint Set of Jury Instructions
- Joint Set of Exhibits
- Joint Exhibit List
- Request for Return of Exhibits
- Agreed Statement of Issues
- Memorandum of Points and Authorities
- Trial Notebook
What each document has to carry
Statement of Damages
Prepared by plaintiff. Served only, within 30 days after the first status conference. Applies to building and construction cases only. El Dorado Super. Ct. Local Rule 7.12.10(E)(2), first paragraph
- Scope of damages, defects, and cost of repair
- A scope of damages setting out the damages with particularity
- Identification of the defects
- An itemized cost of repair
Response to Statement of Damages
Prepared by defendant. Served only, within 45 days after service of the statement of damages. Applies to building and construction cases only. El Dorado Super. Ct. Local Rule 7.12.10(E)(2), third paragraph
- Particularized response to scope and cost of repair
- A response with particularity to the scope of damages
- A response with particularity to the cost of repair
- Copies provided to the DRC temporary judges
Dispute Resolution Conference Statement
Prepared by each party. Served only, at least five court days before the Dispute Resolution Conference, which is normally ordered within 60 days of the case management conference. Applies to most civil cases ordered into a Dispute Resolution Conference. El Dorado Super. Ct. Local Rule 7.12.10(D)(3)
- Statement submitted to the temporary judge and the other parties
- A statement meeting the requirements of California Rules of Court, rule 3.1380
- Any special requirements set for the conference
- Personal injury actions: separate document exchange on the same deadline
- Relevant photographs
- Accident reports
- Medical bills and reports
- Statements of lost income
- Copies of all of these provided to the DRC temporary judges
Settlement Conference Statement
Prepared by each party. Lodged, no later than five court days before the Mandatory Settlement Conference, which is set approximately one to two months before trial. Applies to all civil cases. El Dorado Super. Ct. Local Rule 7.12.11(C)
- Required contents of the statement
- A written statement conforming to Rule 3, et seq., of the California Rules of Court
- A statement of facts
- Each party's contentions on liability
- Each party's contentions on damages
- An itemized list of special damages
- Copies of relevant documents
- Additional contents in any case claiming personal injury
- A description of the nature and extent of any injury claimed, including residuals
- A description of the basis for and method of calculation of any claimed wage loss
- The most recent demand and offer
Motion in Limine
Prepared by each party. Filed and served, filed and served no later than three weeks before the Issues Conference, with oppositions two weeks before and replies one week before; motions concerning experts deposed on or before 15 days prior to the date initially set for trial are filed and served 10 days before trial, oppositions 5 days before trial, replies may be presented orally at the hearing. On the expert track, service must reach the other parties the same day, so it has to be personal or electronic service rather than mail. Applies to all civil trials. El Dorado Super. Ct. Local Rule 7.12.12(C)(2), first paragraph
- Caption and numbering
- Each motion separately stated and separately captioned
- The caption "Plaintiff's Motion in Limine No. ___" or "Defendant's Motion in Limine No. __"
- Consecutive numbering within each party's own set
- A request for an Evidence Code section 402 hearing clearly identified in the caption, for example "Plaintiff's Motion in Limine No. __; Request for 402 Hearing"
- The date of hearing, the time, and the department, below the action number
- Evidentiary predicate and memorandum
- A declaration or other evidentiary predicate specifying with particularity the evidence sought to be excluded
- A memorandum of points and authorities accompanying each motion
- Where particular testimony is to be excluded, a copy of the statement or the pages from the transcript of the proposed testimony attached to the motion, with any necessary declaration
- Exhibits to the motion or opposition
- Each exhibit identified as an exhibit, attached to a declaration, and made a part of it by reference
- Exhibits separately tabbed and numbered
- Every reference in the memorandum giving the exhibit plus the page and line
- An index to exhibits where there are five or more
- References to documents already in the court file, and the judge's copy
- No copy of a document already in the court's file attached to the paper filed with the court
- Each such document referred to instead by its title, its date, and the date it was filed
- A duplicate copy of the paper delivered to the clerk at the time of filing, for the judge who will hear the matter
- Copies of all court file documents the paper refers to attached to that duplicate judge's copy
Issues Conference Statement
Prepared jointly. Lodged, at least three court days before the Issues Conference, which is normally set approximately two weeks before the trial date. Applies to all civil trials. El Dorado Super. Ct. Local Rule 7.12.12(A)(1)
- Contents of the joint statement
- The legal and factual issues
- The proposed sequence of trial
- Any appropriate memoranda of points and authorities
- Whether any party anticipates an Evidence Code section 402 hearing
Statement of the Case
Prepared jointly. Lodged, at least three court days before the Issues Conference. Applies to jury trials only. El Dorado Super. Ct. Local Rule 7.12.12(A)(2)
- Statement to be read to prospective jurors during jury selection
- Identification of the factual issue or issues to be considered by the jury
- A neutral statement
- A concise statement
Proposed Voir Dire
Prepared jointly. Lodged, at least three court days before the Issues Conference. Applies to jury trials only. El Dorado Super. Ct. Local Rule 7.12.12(A)(3)
- Proposed voir dire
- Proposed voir dire, prepared jointly with the other parties
Joint Set of Jury Instructions
Prepared jointly. Brought to the conference, at the Issues Conference. Applies to jury trials only. El Dorado Super. Ct. Local Rule 7.12.12(B)(1)
- Joint set of instructions
- All instructions proposed to be offered by either party, insofar as may be determined prior to taking evidence
- Any instruction as to which there is no agreement tabbed or otherwise flagged in an index to the set
- Proposed verdict forms
- Proposed general verdict forms
- Proposed special verdict forms
Joint Set of Exhibits
Prepared jointly. Brought to the conference, at the Issues Conference. Applies to all civil trials. El Dorado Super. Ct. Local Rule 7.12.12(B)(2)
- Assembly of the joint exhibit binders
- A joint set of exhibits, tabbed and sequentially numbered
- Three-ring binders
- A table of contents listing each exhibit by number
- All exhibits the parties intend to present at their case in chief
- Depositions, requests for admission and the other material the subdivision lists
- Exhibit tags
- Every exhibit individually tagged with the appropriate exhibit tag
- Each exhibit tag properly completed
- Each exhibit tag securely attached to the exhibit
- Enlargements and bulky exhibits
- Original photographs substituted for any photographically enlarged exhibit
Joint Exhibit List
Prepared jointly. Brought to the conference, at the Issues Conference. Applies to all civil trials. El Dorado Super. Ct. Local Rule 7.12.12(B)(3)
- Contents of the joint exhibit list
- The exhibit number
- A description of the exhibit
- The proponent of the exhibit
- Whether the parties are stipulating to its admissibility or merely waiving foundation or hearsay objections
Request for Return of Exhibits
Prepared by each party. Filed, before the end of the hearing or trial. Applies to all civil trials. El Dorado Super. Ct. Local Rule 7.11.03(B)
- Signed request filed with the clerk
- A signed request for return of exhibits filed with the clerk prior to the end of the hearing or trial
Agreed Statement of Issues
Prepared jointly. Brought to the conference, at the hearing to certify the administrative record. Applies to CEQA and writ of mandate proceedings only. El Dorado Super. Ct. Local Rule 7.16.00(H)
- Statement given to the court at the certification hearing
- An agreed statement of the issues that will be presented to the Court at the hearing on the petition
- Any additional issues a party intends to raise, added as that party's supplement to the agreed statement
Memorandum of Points and Authorities
Prepared by each party. Filed and served, on the briefing schedule the court sets, with the record excerpt document filed at the time the party files its initial merits brief. Applies to CEQA and writ of mandate proceedings only. El Dorado Super. Ct. Local Rule 7.16.00(A)(2)(c)
- Citation to the administrative record
- Compliance with California Rules of Court, rule 3.1113
- A citation after each factual reference to the specific portion of the administrative record supporting it
- The administrative record page number
- The document title
- The document page number
- Separate document of cited record pages
- A separate document containing a photocopy of every administrative record page cited in the brief
- Filed at the time the party files its initial merits brief
Trial Notebook
Prepared by plaintiff. Filed, no later than 15 days before the date of the hearing. Applies to CEQA and writ of mandate proceedings only. El Dorado Super. Ct. Local Rule 7.16.00(J)
- Contents of the three-ring trial notebook
- The petition
- The answer or answers
- The memoranda of points and authorities
- Any motions set to be heard at trial
- The statement of issues
- Anything else the subdivision lists
Start with the joint documents
7 of these are prepared jointly: Issues Conference Statement; Statement of the Case; Proposed Voir Dire; Joint Set of Jury Instructions; Joint Set of Exhibits; Joint Exhibit List; Agreed Statement of Issues. A joint document needs a meet and confer before it can be filed, so it sets the real deadline even though the filing date is the same as everything else.
When each one is due
Count each deadline back from the date the rule is actually keyed to rather than from trial. The full rule list for El Dorado County carries every rule with its quoted text, and the trial countdown calculator computes the statewide CCP chain.
How these were built
Every rule was researched from the court’s own published text, then checked a second time by a reader told to assume a rule had been invented. Grouping those rules into the documents a court actually wants was a further pass, and an adversarial check corrected it: the commonest error was a document whose contents the first pass left empty while the rule enumerated them. Templates are generated in your browser, so nothing you type is sent anywhere. See methodology.
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