Fourth District Filing & Service

Summary of filing requirements for briefs and other documents in non-capital criminal and juvenile cases in California Court of Appeal and Supreme Court

Filing Rules Summary

Charts

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

Filing & Service

Service Addresses

Filings in Court of Appeal

Hard Copy Filing in Court of Appeal

Fourth Appellate District, 
Division One

750 B Street, Suite 300
San Diego, CA 92101

Fourth Appellate District, 
Division Two

3389 Twelfth St.
Riverside, CA 92501

Fourth Appellate District, 
Division Three

601 W. Santa Ana Blvd.
Santa Ana, CA 92701

Service on District-Wide Agencies: ADI and AG

ADI (all divisions)

All Filings:
eservice-court@adi-sandiego.com

Attorney General (all divisions)

SDAG.Docketing@doj.ca.gov
If Los Angeles AG is handling the case, service is at DocketingLAAWT@doj.ca.gov.

Criminal division, San Diego office (covers entire Fourth District)

Service on County Agencies

Note: If you are e-mailing service copies, the subject line should include the name of the trial judge or attorney being served.

Division One – San Diego County

Division One – Imperial County

Please note: The “l” in email addresses above is lower case L, not a numeral 1 or a capital I.

Division Two – Inyo County

Division Two – Riverside County

Division Two – San Bernardino County

Division Three – Orange County