Fourth District Filing & Service

Filing Rules Summary

Charts

• Opening, respondent, reply briefs, and petitions for rehearing in the Court of Appeal
• Petitions for review, answers, and replies
• Non-capital briefs on the merits and petitions for rehearing in California Supreme Court
• Non-capital habeas corpus proceedings in appellate court
• Applications, motions, and misc. documents

Calculation of Due Dates

If the date for doing an act falls on a day the court is closed, it is timely if done on next business day. (Code Civ. Proc., §§ 10, 12a, 12b, 135; rule 1.10.) Under Code of Civil Procedure section 12, on computation of time: “The time in which any act provided by law is to be done is computed by excluding the first day, and including the last, unless the last day is a holiday, and then it is also excluded.” For emergency orders affecting due dates, see rule 8.66 and the court website.

Filing and Service

Electronic documents are “filed” when received by court clerk’s office. (See Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.25(b)(1).)

Service Addresses (below) provides information about service options in the Fourth Appellate District.

Sealed and Confidential Records

Filings referring to sealed and confidential records must comply with rules 8.45-8.47.

See ADI’s pages on sealed and confidential records.

How to Prepare Electronic Filings

Each Court of Appeal website has a treatment of electronic filing. The Fourth District page is at https://www.courts.ca.gov/4dca-efile.htm