Humboldt County trial document templates

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9 documents, 16 required sections, taken from Superior Court of California, County of Humboldt’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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CourthouseDepartmentJudgeCase nameCase numberClientClient is theOpposing partyTrial dateConference dateFirmAttorneyState Bar numberEmailPhone

Settlement Conference Statementeach party, 1 required sections. no less than five court days before the settlement conference
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Itemized Special Damages List, General Damages Figure and Settlement Offereach party, 1 required sections. at least five court days before the settlement conference
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Proposed Long Form Juror Questionnaire (Judicial Council form JURY-001)each party, 1 required sections. no later than 15 court days before trial
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Motions in Limineeach party, 1 required sections. no later than 14 court days before the scheduled trial date, unless the court agrees otherwise
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Pretrial Conference Statementeach party, 8 required sections. no later than seven court days before trial
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Trial Memorandumeach party, 1 required sections. no later than seven court days before trial
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Opposition to Motions in Limineeach party, 1 required sections. no later than seven court days before the scheduled trial date, unless the court agrees otherwise
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Written Request for a Court Reportereach party, 1 required sections. at least five court days before the date the proceeding was initially scheduled for
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Exhibits Lodged for a Remote Appearanceeach party, 1 required sections. at least five court days before the trial or evidentiary hearing
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Everything this court requires in one editable document, with each rule quoted and cited.

What each document has to carry

Settlement Conference Statement

Prepared by each party. Filed, no less than five court days before the settlement conference. Applies to civil cases in which a settlement conference has been set, which happens only on a party's request. Humboldt County Superior Court Local Rule 2.5(b)

Settlement Conference Statement
- A Settlement Conference Statement prepared by the party
- An updated statement where a prior statement was filed and is over six months old
- An updated statement where liability or damages have changed substantially since the prior statement

Itemized Special Damages List, General Damages Figure and Settlement Offer

Prepared by each party. Served only, at least five court days before the settlement conference. Applies to every party claiming damages in a case set for settlement conference. Humboldt County Superior Court Local Rule 2.5(b)

Damages exchange furnished to all other parties
- An itemized list of the special damages
- The amount of general damages claimed
- A settlement offer, in a personal injury or wrongful death case

Proposed Long Form Juror Questionnaire (Judicial Council form JURY-001)

Prepared by each party. Lodged, no later than 15 court days before trial. Applies to jury trials, and only where a party wants to use the long form questionnaire. Humboldt County Superior Court Local Rule 2.6(a)(9)

Proposed questionnaire with modifications
- The proposed long form juror questionnaire, Judicial Council form JURY-001
- Any modifications the parties want made to the form
- Agreement of all parties to the modifications before the questionnaire is submitted

Motions in Limine

Prepared by each party. Filed and served, no later than 14 court days before the scheduled trial date, unless the court agrees otherwise. Applies to all civil trials. Humboldt County Superior Court Local Rule 2.6(d)

Each motion in limine
- The motion in limine, filed and served no later than 14 court days before the scheduled date of trial

Pretrial Conference Statement

Prepared by each party. Filed and served, no later than seven court days before trial. Applies to all civil trials, with the jury specific components (statement of the case, voir dire questions, jury instructions, verdict forms) applying to jury trials. Humboldt County Superior Court Local Rule 2.6(a)

List of witnesses
- A list of witnesses expected to be called by the party
- Expert witnesses categorized separately
- The estimated length of direct examination of each witness
Statement of the case to be read to the jury
- A statement of the case that counsel proposes to be read to the jury
Voir dire questions for the judge
- A list of voir dire questions to be asked by the judge
- Specific references to questions in the Standards of Judicial Administration section 3.25
Glossary of technical or unusual terms
- A glossary of technical or unusual terms expected to be used during the trial, if desired by the attorney or ordered by the judge
Requests for judicial notice
- Requests for judicial notice
- Each request identified by number in the body of the statement
- The items that are the subject of the requests appended as attachments
Proposed jury instructions
- Proposed jury instructions identified by number in the body of the statement
- The instructions appended as attachments in proposed final form
- Judicial Council of California Civil Jury Instructions from the latest edition, used where applicable
- All blanks filled in and any necessary changes made on the CACI forms themselves
- Anything beyond CACI submitted as an additional proposed instruction under California Rules of Court, rule 2.1055
- Judicial Council instructions requested by title and number
Proposed verdict forms
- Proposed verdict forms identified by number in the body of the statement
- The forms appended as attachments in proposed final form
List of exhibits
- A list of exhibits expected to be used by the party
- A short description of each exhibit
- The number of expected exhibits, provided to the Court so a proper exhibit number series can be made available

Trial Memorandum

Prepared by each party. Filed and served, no later than seven court days before trial. Applies to all civil trials, optional in every case. Humboldt County Superior Court Local Rule 2.6(b)

Trial memorandum
- A statement of the nature of the case
- The general contentions of the party submitting the statement
- A memorandum of points and authorities limited to unusual questions of law
- The original filed with the court and a copy served on all parties

Opposition to Motions in Limine

Prepared by each party. Filed and served, no later than seven court days before the scheduled trial date, unless the court agrees otherwise. Applies to all civil trials in which motions in limine were filed. Humboldt County Superior Court Local Rule 2.6(d)

Opposition
- Opposition to each motion in limine, filed and served no later than seven court days before the scheduled date of trial

Written Request for a Court Reporter

Prepared by each party. Filed, at least five court days before the date the proceeding was initially scheduled for. Applies to civil proceedings lasting more than one hour where a party wants a court reporter present. Humboldt County Superior Court Local Rule 1.7.3(c)

Request and fee
- A written statement requesting a court reporter, filed by one or more of the parties
- Payment of a pro rata share of the half day fee, at least five court days before the date initially scheduled for the proceeding
- Payment for each additional half day before that half day begins

Exhibits Lodged for a Remote Appearance

Prepared by each party. Lodged, at least five court days before the trial or evidentiary hearing. Applies to trials and evidentiary hearings where a remote appearance has been approved and testimony will be taken or exhibits offered. Humboldt County Superior Court Local Rule 1.19

Lodging and service of the exhibit set
- Exhibits lodged with Court Operations in hard copy
- A cover sheet with the lodged set
- The same set served on every party, every witness and every remotely appearing attorney within the same five court day window

When each one is due

Most of these do not run off the trial date. They run off the settlement conference, on party request only (local rule 2.5(a)). humboldt holds no final status conference, no trial readiness conference and no issue conference. the only pretrial-procedure conference the civil rules create is the jury trial conference under local rule 2.6(c), which convenes on the morning of the first day of trial., which the court sets, and counting back from trial instead is the commonest way one gets missed. The full rule list for Humboldt 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.