Part 4 · Parties and Actions

Rule 3.404. Requesting assignment of judge when a comprehensive groundwater adjudication is filed in a court overlying the groundwater basin at issue

Amended (current)

**** If a comprehensive adjudication of groundwater rights under Code of Civil Procedure section 833 is filed in the superior court of a county that overlies any portion of the groundwater basin at issue, the presiding judge of that court must:

(1) Submit a request for judicial assignment to the Temporary Assigned Judges Program; and

(2) Indicate that the request is for “Comprehensive groundwater adjudication assignment under Code of Civil Procedure section 838(a)(1).”