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Generally Applicable Rules and Formatting Requirements
Superior
Court of California
San Mateo County
Preemption Re Format
The Judicial Council has preempted local rules relating to the form and format of papers to be filed more...
Other Preemption
Local court rules governing pleadings, demurrers, applications, motions, discovery, provisional remedies and the form and format of documents are preempted and voided by the California more...
Every paper filed with the court must be signed by the attorney or unrepresented party submitting the paper. more...
Scope
The requirements of this subdivision that parties or their attorneys must not include, or must redact, certain identifiers from more...
Exclusion or Redaction of Identifiers
To protect personal privacy and other legitimate interests, parties and their attorneys must not include, or must redact more...
Social security numbers. If an individuals social security number is required in a pleading or other paper filed more...
Financial account numbers. If financial account numbers are required in a pleading or other paper filed in the more...
Responsibility of the Filer
The responsibility for excluding or redacting identifiers identified in (b)(2) from all documents filed with the court rests solely more...
Confidential Reference List
If the court orders on a showing of good cause, a party filing a document containing identifiers listed more...
Please reference California Rule of Court 1.20. . more...
Public Access
Exhibits or attachments to a document that are filed or lodged with or otherwise presented to the court, more...
Electronic Access
Documents that are part of a court record are reasonably made available to the public electronically under the more...
Name & Address of Attorney
In the space commencing one (1) inch from the top of the page with line one (1), to more...
Blank Space
The first two inches of space between lines one (1) and seven (7) to the right of the more...
Title of the Court
The title of the court must appear one line eight (8), at or below three and one-third (3 more...
Name of the Court
In San Mateo County Superior Court, the official title of the court is: "Superior Court of California, County of San Mateo." more...
Title of the Case
Below the title of the court, in the space to the left of the center of the page, more...
The Number of the Case
The number of the case must appear to the right and opposite the title. . more...
The Nature of the Paper
Below the number of the case must appear the nature of that paper, and on all complaints and more...
Judge and Department
Below the nature of the paper or the character of the action or proceeding, the name of the more...
Referee
Below the nature of the paper or the character of the action or proceeding, must appear the word more...
Caption
California Rule of Court 312(h) was deleted effective 1/1/07. It provided that motions or demurrers may have short captions that simply identify the first party on each more...
It appears that with motions other than demurrers, as well as with pleadings, California Rule of Court 2.111(4) more...
No change, other than a renumbering, was made to the California Rule of Court addressing the other elements more...
The California Code of Civil Procedure also has provision relating to captions. These provide: more...
Every pleading must contain a caption setting forth: (1) The name of the court and county in which more...
In a limited civil case, the caption must state that the case is a limited civil case, and more...
In the complaint, the title of the action must include the names of all the parties; but, except more...
Typewritten or Printed
Papers must be typewritten, printed, or produced by a duplication process that produces permanent and legible copies. more...
The typeface must be essentially equivalent to Courier, Times or Arial. . more...
The color of print must be black or blue-black. . more...
Typeset
Papers must be in type that is not smaller than twelve (12) point. . more...
Margins
The left margin must be at least one inch and the right margin at least one-half inch. more...
Line Spacing and Line Numbering
Line numbers must be placed at the left margin and separated from the text of the paper by more...
Double-Spaced
Only one side of the paper may be used. . Lines must be double spaced or one and a half spaced. more...
Single spacing
Descriptions of real property, footnotes, quotations and printed forms of corporate surety bonds and undertakings may be single spaced. more...
Page Numbering
Each page must be numbered consecutively at the bottom unless a rule provides otherwise for a particular type more...
Documents bound together must be consecutively paginated. . more...
Table of Contents and Authorities
A memorandum that exceeds ten (10) pages must be accompanied by a table of contents and table of more...
Pagination With Tables
Where a memorandum contains tables, the caption page or pages must not be page numbered and pages of more...
Footer
Except for exhibits, there must a footer on each page of a document. The footer must appear in the bottom margin, below the page number and divided from the rest of more...
Citations to Authority and Exhibits
Case citations must include the official report volume and page number and year of decision. . more...
A judge may require that authority from outside California be lodged with the papers that cite the authority more...
References to exhibits must include the number or letter of the exhibit, the specific page and specific paragraph more...
Reference to Previously Filed Papers
Any paper previously filed must be referred to by date of execution and title. . more...
Style of Citations
Citations to cases and other authorities in all documents filed in the courts must be in the style more...
Paper
Documents must be on opaque, unglazed paper, white or unbleached, of standard quality not less than twenty (20) more...
One Side
On papers, only one side of each page may be used. . more...
Recycled Paper
The use of recycled paper is required for all original papers filed with the court and all copies more...
Hole Punching
Pages must be firmly bound together at the top of the document. Each document to be filed must have two (2) pre-punched normal size holes, centered 2 inches apart, and more...
Consecutive Pagination
Documents bound together must be consecutively paginated. . more...
Binding
Documents and exhibits must be attached together at the top by a method that permits pages to be more...
No Riders
Documents must consist entirely of original pages without riders. . more...
Tabbed Sheets
Each exhibit must be separated by a hard 8 X 11 sheet with hard paper or plastic tabs more...
Exhibits may be fastened to pages of the specified size and when photocopied, must be equal to typewritten more...
Exhibits in Foreign Language
Exhibits written in a foreign language must be accompanied by an English translation, certified under oath by a more...
Consecutive Pagination
Documents bound together must be consecutively paginated. . more...
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