Shasta County trial document templates
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Core CCP rules were checked against Westlaw (via CoCounsel legal research) on August 20, 2026. County local rules are paraphrased summaries. Individual department and judge standing orders are included only where the court publishes them and we have read the document, so assume your own department has requirements beyond what you see here. Verify every date against the operative code sections, your court’s rules and your department’s own order before relying on it. Using this site creates no attorney-client relationship.
5 documents, 9 required sections, taken from Superior Court of California, County of Shasta’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.
Download these as templates
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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- Mandatory Settlement Conference Statement
- Proposed Order
- Certified Administrative Record
- Merits Brief (Memorandum of Points and Authorities)
- Trial Notebook
What each document has to carry
Mandatory Settlement Conference Statement
Prepared by each party. Filed, on the schedule California Rules of Court, rule 3.1380(c) sets for the mandatory settlement conference; Local Rule 3.04(A) adds content but no separate date. Applies to all limited and unlimited civil cases, which are all given a mandatory settlement conference date when the complaint is filed. Shasta Local Rule 3.04(A)
- Everything California Rules of Court, rule 3.1380(c) requires
- A mandatory settlement conference statement meeting the requirements of California Rules of Court, rule 3.1380(c), which the local rule incorporates in full
- The additional items Shasta requires on top of rule 3.1380(c)
- Whether a jury is demanded or waived
- Whether jury fees have been posted
- The estimated time required for trial
- Whether the case is ready to proceed to trial as assigned
Proposed Order
Prepared by each party. Filed, at the time of filing the demurrer, motion or other application for order. Applies to every demurrer, motion or other application for order in a general civil action, which is the only local hook a written motion in limine touches. Shasta Local Rule 5.17(D)
- The proposed order accompanying the moving papers
- A proposed order, submitted by the moving party at the time the demurrer, motion or other application for order is filed
Certified Administrative Record
Prepared by not stated. Lodged, within 60 days, measured from the request if the agency prepared the record, or from service of the notice of election if petitioners prepared it. Applies to CEQA writ actions only. Shasta Local Rule 5.19(E)
- Certification, service and lodging
- Certification by the agency, made before the record is filed with the court
- Personal service of the record
- Lodging of the record with the court
- Volume designation and physical format
- Loose-leaf three-ring binders, one or more volumes
- Tabs by document number
- A prominent title on each volume reading ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD VOL. 1, and so on
- No more than three hundred pages in any one volume
- A cover page index in each volume
- The volume number on the spine
Merits Brief (Memorandum of Points and Authorities)
Prepared by each party. Filed, on the briefing schedule the court sets in the writ action. Applies to CEQA writ actions only. Shasta Local Rule 5.19(A)(3)(b)
- Record citations supporting every factual contention
- Specific references to the administrative record by record page number
- The document title for each reference
- A reference of that kind in support of any factual contention asserted in the brief
- Appendix listing the record pages cited
- A separate appendix page in the brief
- The record page number of each page cited in the brief
Trial Notebook
Prepared by plaintiff. Filed, no later than 15 days before the date of the merits hearing. Applies to CEQA writ actions only, prepared by petitioners. Shasta Local Rule 5.19(H)
- Form of the notebook
- A three-ring binder
- Separate tabs for each item
- A table of contents at the front
- An index to record evidence cited in the briefs
- Contents of the notebook
- The petition
- The answer or answers
- The memoranda of points and authorities
- Any motions previously filed and set to be heard at trial
- The statements of issues
When each one is due
Most of these do not run off the trial date. They run off the mandatory settlement conference, which the court sets, and counting back from trial instead is the commonest way one gets missed. The full rule list for Shasta 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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