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The Judicial Council of California has authorized the Court of Appeal, Sixth Appellate District, to issue an order extending by up to 30 days the time to do any act required or permitted under the California Rules of Court, due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This order applies to proceedings in which the deadline for any action in the California Rules of Court would occur between March 18, 2020, and April 17, 2020.

In light of the current public health emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Fifth District Court of Appeal has suspended in-person oral argument sessions. Counsel and/or parties appearing in propria persona will appear via CourtCall. All oral argument sessions will be open to the public, but seating will be strictly limited in order to achieve appropriate distancing. All sessions will continue to be live-streamed on the Fifth District Court of Appeal website.

This order states that beginning January 1, 2018, all parties involved in criminal appeals in the state of California must follow certain rules. These rules include that the defendant's copy of the reporter's transcript must be delivered in either paper or electronic form.

This manual describes in simple terms the civil appellate process and the related California Rules of Court that are in effect as of the date at the bottom of the page in each chapter. The manual is intended for persons who represent themselves (also called “self- represented litigants” and those “in pro per” or “in pro se”) who are bringing civil appeals to the California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three, which has jurisdiction over appeals from Orange County. The manual does not cover criminal or juvenile dependency appeals.

The Court of Appeal for the Third Appellate District in California is now allowing people to electronically file and submit documents instead of using paper. This will make the process of filing documents easier and more efficient. The list of documents that can be electronically filed or submitted can be found on the Court of Appeal website.

The Court of Appeal of the State of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division One has issued a miscellaneous order that supersedes its previous order on the same matter. This order sets forth that all San Diego and Imperial County Superior Court certified shorthand reporters reporting criminal cases are granted a 30-day extension to the 50th day from the filing of the notice of appeal, to file the reporter’s transcript.  The court will no longer issue a notice of default providing an additional 15-day extension to file the reporter’s transcript is not timely filed but will instead issue an order to show cause as to why the sanctions should not be imposed and/or why the court reporter should not be declared incompetent to act as an official reporter in any court under Government Code section 69944.

Retired Associate Justice Zerne P. Haning III was appointed to the Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, Division Five by Governor Brown Jr. in 1982. He was confirmed by the Commission on Judicial Appointments and the electorate in 1986 and 1990, respectively. Prior to his appointment, he served as a Judge in the Superior Court of San Mateo County and a Juvenile Court Referee in the same court. He was also a partner in a private law practice and held various positions in the California State Bar. He was born in Lincoln, Nebraska and graduated from Washburn University of Topeka, School of Law and San Francisco State College. He was admitted to the California Bar in 1965 and the U.S. Supreme Court in 1971.

Retired Associate Justice Zerne P. Haning was appointed to the newly created position of associate justice in the newly created Division Five of the First District Court of Appeal in California by Governor Jerry Brown in 1982. Justice Haning and his colleagues had to scramble to find offices and hire staff, and faced an enormous backlog of cases that had been fully briefed for over four years. They divided the cases by area of law, and had a waiting system from one to five to divide the workload. They also had an active settlement program sponsored by the American Bar Association, and used yellow pads and pens, a very primitive form of word processing, and Scotch tape for their work. The Loma Prieta earthquake caused huge chunks of rubble to fall on the stairways and bookcases to collapse, but the seismic bookshelves they had just installed worked and they did not lose their library.

All petitions for extraordinary writs, other than habeas corpus, shall be accompanied by a properly completed face sheet, the Appellate Court Writ Petition Information Sheet. This form is also available through TrueFiling.

criminal, civil, probate, juvenile, and a little bit of admiralty. I did a lot of civil and criminal. Richard Huffman: You also did some work in the Court of Appeal, didn’t you? William Todd: Yes. I was an assigned judge for the Court of Appeal for a couple of years. Richard Huffman: How did that come about? William Todd: I was appointed by Chief Justice Phil Gibson. He called me one day and said he had an opening and he wanted me to fill it. Justice William Todd was born in Toronto, Canada and moved to the United States when he was two years old. He attended college at the University of Southern California, majoring in political science and international relations. After college, he joined the Naval ROTC and was later commissioned. He then went to law school and started his career in civil practice. He was very active in the local bar association and was eventually appointed to the superior court by Governor Reagan. He served on the court for 12 and a half years, covering criminal, civil, probate, juvenile, and admiralty cases. He was also an assigned judge for the Court of Appeal for a couple of years.

William Masterson was a Retired Justice of the California Court of Appeal who grew up in a lower-middle class Irish Catholic ghetto in New York during the Great Depression. He moved to Hollywood, California when he was 12 and attended Blessed Sacrament High School and then Loyola High School. He worked full-time while attending the University of California, Los Angeles and graduated in 1953. He was then drafted into the military and served in Germany. After his service, he went on to become a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.