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- Civil motion deadlines
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- Demurrer deadline
- Anti-SLAPP deadline
- Motion to strike deadline
- Motion to quash deadline
- Compel further responses deadline
- Reconsideration deadline
- New trial motion deadline
- JNOV motion deadline
- Notice of appeal deadline
- Discovery cutoff & trial deadlines
- Expert witness exchange and cutoffs
- Deposition subpoena for business records
Rules
- Judicial holidays on which California courts are closed. Saturdays are judicial holidays; deadlines falling on a weekend or judicial holiday roll per CCP §§ ...
- Computation of time: exclude the first day, include the last.
- If the last day to perform an act falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or judicial holiday, the deadline rolls forward to the next court day.
- Backward deadlines are counted from the hearing date, excluding the hearing day, and service add-on days are counted backward from that day.
- A backward-counted deadline landing on a weekend or judicial holiday is moved to the preceding court day.
- Electronic service made on or after January 1, 2027 adds no time. AB 540 rewrites CCP § 1010.6(a)(3) without the two-court-day extension and adds "excluding ...
- Electronic service made through December 31, 2026 extends response deadlines by 2 court days (former CCP § 1010.6(a)(3)(B)). Service on or after January 1, 2027 ...
- Personal service adds no extension.
- Service by mail to a California address extends response deadlines by 5 calendar days.
- Service by mail to an out-of-state U.S. address extends response deadlines by 10 calendar days.
- Service by mail to an address outside the U.S. extends response deadlines by 20 calendar days.
- Service by express mail or overnight delivery extends response deadlines by 2 court days.
- Service by mail on an address in the Secretary of State's address-confidentiality program (Safe at Home) extends response deadlines by 12 calendar days.
- Responses to interrogatories are due 30 days after service.
- Responses to demands for inspection/production are due 30 days after service.
- Responses to requests for admission are due 30 days after service.
- Motion to compel further responses must be noticed within 45 days of service of the verified responses (plus service-method extensions).
- A defendant must file a written response within 30 days after the summons is served.
- Substituted service is complete on the 10th day after the copy is mailed, so the response is due 40 days after that mailing.
- Filing the meet-and-confer declaration grants an automatic 30-day extension of the time to respond.
- The parties may stipulate to one 15-day extension of the response deadline without leave of court.
- A judge may extend the time to plead on good cause, but not more than 30 days without the other side's consent.
- Serving and filing a motion to quash extends the time to plead until 15 days after service of written notice of entry of the order denying it.
- A motion to strike filed without demurring extends the time to answer, and no default may be entered except as provided in §§ 585 and 586, but it does not ...
- Notice of motion for summary judgment must be served at least 81 days before the hearing (as amended eff. 1/1/2025).
- MSJ must be heard no later than 30 days before trial unless the court orders otherwise for good cause.
- Opposition papers are due 20 days before the hearing.
- Reply papers are due 11 days before the hearing.
- CCP §§ 1005 and 1013 do not apply to summary judgment deadlines, except § 1005(c) on the method of service of opposition and reply papers; § 437c(a)(2) carries ...
- For e-service made through December 31, 2026, the § 1010.6 two-court-day e-service extension applies to MSJ notice (Cole v. Superior Court (2022) 87 Cal.App.5th ...
- Last day to serve a CCP § 998 offer: 10 days before trial for personal service. A mailed offer adds the CCP § 1013(a) time (5, 10 or 20 calendar days, 12 to a ...
- Motion to compel further responses: 45 calendar days after service of the verified responses.
- Motion to compel initial responses: no separate trigger deadline; runs on the § 1005(b) notice period.
- Motion for protective order: no separate trigger deadline; runs on the § 1005(b) notice period.
- Demurrer: 30 calendar days after completion of service of the summons and complaint, with no service extension; 30 calendar days after service of the amended ...
- Motion to strike: 30 calendar days after completion of service of the summons and complaint, with no service extension; 30 calendar days after service of the ...
- Motion for judgment on the pleadings: no separate trigger deadline; runs on the § 1005(b) notice period.
- Motion to quash service of summons: 30 calendar days after completion of service of the summons, with no service extension.
- Anti-SLAPP special motion to strike: 60 calendar days after completion of service of the summons and complaint, with no service extension; 60 calendar days ...
- Motion for summary judgment / adjudication: no separate trigger deadline, and not on the § 1005(b) notice period. 81 days' notice. Sections 1005 and 1013 do not ...
- Motion for reconsideration: 10 calendar days after service of written notice of entry of the order.
- Motion for new trial: 15 calendar days after the first service of notice of entry of judgment, by the clerk under § 664.5 or by any party, and never later than ...
- Motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict: 15 calendar days after the first service of notice of entry of judgment, by the clerk under § 664.5 or by any ...
- Motion for trial preference: no separate trigger deadline; runs on the § 1005(b) notice period.
- Motion to reopen discovery: no separate trigger deadline; runs on the § 1005(b) notice period.
- Motion to compel arbitration: no separate trigger deadline; runs on the § 1005(b) notice period.
- Ex parte application: no separate trigger deadline, and not on the § 1005(b) notice period. Notice to all parties by 10:00 a.m. the court day before the ...
- The 16-court-day notice period carries its own service extensions in Code Civ. Proc., § 1005(b): mail, +5 calendar days if the place of mailing and the place of ...
- Moving papers must be filed and served at least 16 court days before the hearing (CCP § 1005(b)).
- Opposition papers are due at least 9 court days before the hearing (CCP § 1005(b)).
- Reply papers are due at least 5 court days before the hearing (CCP § 1005(b)).
- The moving party serves and files its brief within 10 days of filing the notice of intention (CCP § 659a).
- Opposing briefs are due 10 days after service of the moving brief (CCP § 659a).
- The reply is due 5 days after service of the opposition (CCP § 659a).
- The court's power to rule on a new trial motion expires 75 days after notice of entry of judgment, or 75 days after the first notice of intention is filed if no ...
- Motion to set aside the information or indictment (§ 995): runs on the rule 4.111 default of 10 / 5 / 2 court days.
- Deadline to preserve pretrial writ review of a § 995 or § 1538.5 denial, felony (§ 1510): 60 calendar days from arraignment on the information or indictment.
- Deadline to preserve pretrial writ review of a § 995 or § 1538.5 denial, misdemeanor (§ 1510): 45 calendar days from arraignment on the complaint.
- Motion to recuse the district attorney (§ 1424): 10 court days' notice, displacing the rule 4.111 default.
- Motion to suppress at the preliminary hearing (§ 1538.5(f)): 5 court days' notice, displacing the rule 4.111 default.
- Special suppression hearing in superior court (§ 1538.5(i)): 10 court days from notice to the People.
- Pitchess motion, criminal (Evid. Code § 1043(a)(2)): 10 court days' notice, displacing the rule 4.111 default.
- Motion to compel criminal discovery (§ 1054.5(b)): 15 calendar days from the informal request for discovery.
- Reciprocal discovery disclosure deadline (§ 1054.7): 30 calendar days from trial (counted backward).
- Motion to continue (§ 1050(b)): 2 court days' notice, displacing the rule 4.111 default.
- Time to prepare for trial (§ 1049): 5 calendar days from entry of the plea.
- Information after a holding order (CRC 4.110): 15 calendar days from the holding order.
- Pretrial motions, with a memorandum, must be served and filed at least 10 court days before the hearing (CRC 4.111(a)).
- Papers opposing the motion are due at least 5 court days before the hearing (CRC 4.111(a)).
- Reply papers are due at least 2 court days before the hearing (CRC 4.111(a)).
- Proof of service of the moving papers must be filed no later than 5 court days before the hearing (CRC 4.111(a)).
- The special suppression hearing in superior court must be heard before trial and at least 10 court days after notice to the People (Pen. Code § 1538.5(i)).
- Pretrial review of a denial at the special hearing is by extraordinary writ filed within 30 days after the denial (Pen. Code § 1538.5(i)).
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