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Reply Brief – California Appellate Courts
If the respondent does not file a respondent’s brief then the appellant does not file a reply brief.
There is no default period and the appellant will not receive a notice from the court about the deadline to file a reply brief.

If an appellant needs more time to file a reply brief, they must give the Court of Appeal good cause and file a stipulation to extend time or file an application for an extension before the deadline to file the brief.
If an appellant misses the deadline to file a reply brief, they can file a request with the Court of Appeal for permission to file a late brief. In this situation the court may or may not allow the appellant to file a late brief.
If the Court of Appeal returns a reply brief for corrections, the court will give the appellant additional time to correct the brief, and to serve and file it again.

Cost of Filing an Appellant’s Reply Brief

There is no additional cost to file an appellant’s reply brief.
Preparing an Appellant’s Reply Brief
The reply brief is the second and final brief written by the appellant.
The reply brief is very different from the appellant’s opening brief. The reply brief has a limited purpose, so there are a limited number of sections. That means it will usually take the appellant less time to research and write the reply brief than it takes to complete the opening brief.
Before writing a reply brief, the appellant should carefully review the legal arguments and legal authorities in the respondent’s brief. The appellant must:

decide which legal issues (if any) in the respondent’s brief need to be addressed and
focus on those issues when researching and writing the reply brief.

The argument is the heart of the appellant’s reply brief. The appellant should spend the most time making a persuasive legal argument against the specific legal issues they identified in the respondent’s brief.
Outline of an Appellant’s Reply Brief
Here is an overview of each section in the appellant’s reply brief with a description of what it includes. All of the sections are required.
Choose a section to learn more

 Cover The cover of an appellant’s reply brief must include basic information:
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Motions to Vacate

If you did not go to the trial and a judgment was entered against you, you may ask the court to vacate the judgment. To make this request, you must file 
 Judicial Council form Notice of Motion to Vacate Judgment within 30 days after the date the Notice of Entry of Judgment was mailed to you. There is a 
 $20.00 filing fee. If your request is denied, you then have 10 days from the date the notice of denial was mailed to file an appeal.

Small Claims Appeals

If you lost the case on your own claim and the court did not award you any money, the court's decision on your claim is final. You may not appeal your own claim.
If you are the party that was sued and you lost, you may appeal if you disagree with the court's decision.
If you appeared at the trial, you must begin your appeal by filing a Judicial Council form Notice of Appeal 
 (SC-140) and pay the $75.00 fee within 30 days 
 after the Notice of Entry of Judgment was mailed or handed to you. Your appeal will be in the Superior Court. You will have a new trial and you must present 
 your evidence again. The hearing will include all claims heard in the Small Claims court. You may be represented by an attorney at the appeal.

Satisfactions of Judgment

After full payment of the judgment is made the judgment creditor must immediately file with the court Judicial Council form “Acknowledgment of 
 Satisfaction of Judgment” (EJ-100).
If an abstract of judgment has been recorded with the recorder of any county and the judgment is satisfied, the judgment creditor must file an 
 acknowledgment of satisfaction of judgment with the court and serve a notarized acknowledgment of satisfaction on the judgment debtor. Service 
 can be made personally or by mail.
The judgment creditor may be liable for damages if satisfaction of judgment is not filed with the court in a timely manner.

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Rule 8.891. Costs and sanctions in civil appeals

Chapter 5. Appeals in Infraction Cases

Article 1. Taking Appeals in Infraction Cases
Rule 8.900. Application of chapter
Rule 8.901. Notice of appeal
Rule 8.902. Time to appeal
Rule 8.903. Stay of execution on appeal
Rule 8.904. Abandoning the appeal

Article 2. Record in Infraction Appeals
Rule 8.910. Normal record on appeal
Rule 8.911. Prosecuting attorney's notice regarding the record
Rule 8.912. Contents of clerk's transcript
Rule 8.913. Preparation of clerk's transcript
Rule 8.914. Trial court file instead of clerk's transcript
Rule 8.915. Record of oral proceedings
Rule 8.916. Statement on appeal
Rule 8.917. Record when trial proceedings were officially electronically recorded
Rule 8.918. Contents of reporter's transcript
Rule 8.919. Preparation of reporter's transcript
Rule 8.920. Limited normal record in certain appeals
Rule 8.921. Exhibits
Rule 8.922. Sending and filing the record in the appellate division
Rule 8.923. Augmenting or correcting the record in the appellate division 
Rule 8.924. Failure to procure the record

Article 3. Briefs, Hearing, and Decision in Infraction Appeals
Rule 8.925. General application of chapter 4
Rule 8.926. Notice of briefing schedule
Rule 8.927. Briefs 
Rule 8.928. Contents and form of briefs
Rule 8.929. Oral argument

Chapter 6. Writ Proceedings
Rule 8.930. Application 
Rule 8.931. Petitions filed by persons not represented by an attorney
Rule 8.932.
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Respondent’s Brief – California Appellate Courts
If you need to refer to confidential or sealed material in your brief, please carefully review the procedure described here in CRC 8.46(f) and CRC 8.47.
 
 How do I put things in the record on appeal for the Court of Appeal to review? Learn how to designate – or choose – materials from the trial court record to send the Court of Appeal.
 
 How do I reference sources from the record on appeal? For every event or fact about the case that you include in your brief, you must provide an exact location and page number where the court can find it in the record on appeal.
Here’s a list of places information can be found in the record on appeal:

Appellant’s appendix—AA
Appellant’s opening brief—AOB
Appellant’s reply appendix—ARA
Appellant’s reply brief—ARB
Augmented clerk’s transcript—Aug CT
Augmented reporter’s transcript—Aug RT
Clerk’s transcript—CT
Joint appendix—JA
Reporter’s transcript—RT
Respondent’s appendix—RA
Respondent’s brief—RB
Superior court file—SC file
Supplemental clerk’s transcript—SCT
Supplemental reporter’s transcript—SRT

Each case is different. Some cases have all these sources in the record on appeal, and some cases only have a few of these sources.
In your brief, you will support each event or fact with a reference to a page number in one of the sources in this list. You will use the abbreviation that matches the source to tell the Court of Appeal where to look for the information. The court will check each reference to make sure it supports your version of the story.
For example, say you want to tell the court a fact about the case that’s on page one of the clerk’s transcript. Here’s what you would write in the brief: “Appellant filed a civil complaint on January 3, 2018. (CT 1)”
If there is more than one volume of the clerk’s transcript or reporter’s transcript, you’ll need to write the volume number, then CT or RT, and then the page number.
Additional Filings – California Appellate Courts
If the party completing the form is an organization, business, firm, or partnership, interested entities or persons include any other organization, business, firm, partnership, or person that has more than a 10% ownership in that party.
This includes partners or spouses who own more than a 10% interest in a business, but who are not listed in the lawsuit. The partner or spouse must be listed on form APP-008 and the business must also be listed on the form.
Here are examples of well-known businesses that are owned by other businesses (as of 2019):

JPMorgan Chase – Washington Mutual
Bank of America – Merrill Lynch
Walmart – Sam’s Club
Pepsico – Taco Bell, KFC, Quaker Oatmeal, Cheetos and Tropicana
Nestle – Gerber baby food, Hot Pockets, KitKats, and L’Oreal
Unilever – Axe body spray, Dove, Lipton tea, and Hellmann’s mayonnaise

What happens if I forget to include this form? The Court of Appeal issues a notice of default giving the party 15 days to correct the mistake. The party must serve and file the form before the deadline in the court’s notice of default.
If the appellant does not correct a mistake within 15 days, the court may reject the document, impose sanctions, or may dismiss the appeal.
If the respondent does not correct a mistake within 15 days, the court may reject the document or impose sanctions. If the document is a brief and the court strikes the filing of the brief, the court will make a decision based on the appellant’s opening brief, the record on appeal, legal research, and the appellant’s oral argument (if they present one to the court).
What if I want to keep an interested entity or person confidential? If the identity of an entity or person has not already been publicly disclosed in the case, you can apply to keep the identity confidential. You must serve and file an application to the Court of Appeal for permission to file the Certificate of Interested Entities or Persons under seal separately from a principal brief, motion, application, or opposition.
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5. Appellant’s Opening Brief
The written briefs are the most important part of an appeal. Because there is no new trial during an appeal, the Court of Appeal makes a decision based on what they read in the written briefs, the record on appeal, and in legal research.
The first written brief is the opening brief. It is the case for appeal prepared by the appellant. The opening brief argues why the trial court made a legal mistake, how the mistake impacted the decision, what could be corrected or reversed in the judgment, and why the judgment should be reversed.
Here’s an overview of what to expect in this step of the appeal process and how to prepare an opening brief.
You can also:
See a sample opening brief
Timeline of an Opening Brief
After filing documents to designate the record, the next step is to prepare the opening brief. Once the record on appeal is filed, the Court of Appeal notifies the appellant of the opening brief due date. The deadline is generally 40 days after the Court of Appeal sends notice of the filing of the record on appeal. If the appellant prepares an appendix and does not request a reporter’s transcript, then the appellant has 70 days from the date they file the election to proceed by appendix (rule 8.124 election) in the trial court.
Preparing an Opening Brief
Appeals are won or lost on the briefs, so the appellant needs to spend time researching and writing a persuasive, concise legal argument.
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Additional Filings – California Appellate Courts
If you already have a fee waiver from the trial court, it could still be valid when you file your notice of appeal. Fee waivers expire 60 days after the trial court’s judgment. Please check with your trial court and ask if you need to submit a new fee waiver application.
If you do not have a fee waiver from the trial court or your fee waiver is expired, you must complete a fee waiver form FW-001 for the trial court. 
Remember that you must complete a separate fee waiver form FW-001 for the Court of Appeal and file it at the trial court when you file your notice of appeal.

 
 I am a Respondent If you want your court fees to be waived in both the trial court and the Court of Appeal, you must have a fee waiver in both courts.
Be sure to specify the name of the court you are applying to on the fee waiver form.
For respondent’s appeal fees in the trial court: 

If you have a current fee waiver from the trial court that has not expired yet, you do not need to apply for a new fee waiver in the trial court. You will give the trial court a copy of the fee waiver when you request documents from the record. Note: Fee waivers expire 60 days after the trial court’s judgment. Also, you need to apply for a new fee waiver if you want the trial court to waive your deposit for the reporter’s transcript.
If you do not have a fee waiver in the trial court or if your fee waiver is expired, you can file a Request to Waive Court Fees form FW-001 in the trial court when you request documents from the record. If you file a fee waiver form when you file your request for documents from the record, you will not have to pay any fees until the court makes a decision about your fee waiver application.

 For respondent’s appeal fees in the Court of Appeal:

If you want to request that the Court of Appeal waive your $390 filing fee, you must file a Request to Waive Court Fees form FW-001 in the Court of Appeal.
You will give the Court of Appeal a fee waiver form when you file your first document in the court.
Petition for Review – California Appellate Courts
If the California Supreme Court reviews my case but I do not like the decision, can I appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court? Decisions of the California Supreme Court are final unless they involve questions of federal law. If a decision does involve an issue of federal law, you may seek review in the U.S. Supreme Court. Like the California Supreme Court, the U.S. Supreme Court is not required to hear every case.
 
 Who needs to receive a copy of the petition for review? When do I serve the petition for review? You must serve a copy of the petition for review to all parties in the case, the trial court, and the Court of Appeal BEFORE the petition for review can be filed in the California Supreme Court.
If the other party has a lawyer, then the petition is served to the lawyer. If the other party does not have a lawyer, then the petition is served to the other party.
You may be required to serve the petition to a public officer or agency that is not a party to the case, or to the California Attorney General. For example, if you are arguing that a California statute is unconstitutional, you must serve a copy of the petition to the Attorney General.
 
 How do I serve a petition for review? What’s proof of service? Serving a petition for review means delivering a copy of the petition to someone.
There are three ways to serve a petition for review: by mail, in person, or electronically. If you want to serve a petition electronically, you will first need to get the recipient to agree.
The court has rules about who can serve a petition for review. It must be a person who is over 18 and lives in the county where they are serving. A party to the case cannot serve a petition for review by mail or in person.
You need a proof of service form for each person or court who receives a copy of the petition. You are encouraged to use form APP-009 (serve by mail or in person) or APP-009E (serve electronically)  for proof of service. 
The person who is serving a petition for review must complete and sign a proof of service form when they deliver the petition.
Appeal or pay | California Courts | Self Help Guide
You can ask to pay the court directly by filing a Request to Pay Judgment to Court (form SC-145). The court will then send the money to the other side. The court charges a fee, usually $25.00, to process the payment and send it to the other side.

 
Can I make payments? 
If you can't pay all the money right now and the other side won't accept payments, you can ask the judge to let you make payments. 

 
There are steps you can take if the other side doesn't file an Acknowledgment of Satisfaction of Judgment. Learn more
1. Send the other side a letter by certified mail with return receipt requested. In the letter, ask them to file an Acknowledgment of Satisfaction of Judgment right away. Let them know if they don't file it within 14 days of being paid, you can sue them for $50 plus any damage this caused.2. If they still won't file one, ask the court to enter one. You can file a written statement (a declaration) with the court stating that you paid. Attach any proof that you paid. Your court may have a form you can use for this. Check with a small claims clerk or your Small Claims Advisor.

If you don't pay the full amount
You will owe interest on any amount you don't pay.
The other side can ask to have the money come out of your pay or bank accounts, or they can take things you own after asking the court’s permission.
The fact that there’s a judgment against you and that you owe money may show up on your credit report.
If the case is about a car accident in California, the DMV can suspend your driver’s license.
You must tell the other side about what you earn and own
Fill out and mail the other side a Judgment Debtor’s Statement of Assets (form SC-133).  
This tells the other side what you earn and own that could be used to pay them. If you don't send this within 30 days, the other side could ask the court to make you pay a fine.

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Glossary – California Appellate Courts
The court filing must include proof of service that the papers were served to all other parties in the case and any other relevant courts.ServiceThe delivery of legal papers to an opposing party.Settled statementA summary of the trial court proceedings that includes the facts of the case and how it was decided. It is prepared by the appellant or their attorney. A settled statement may also be called a statement on appeal.SettlementA settlement is an agreement between the parties as to the outcome of a lawsuit. If a settlement is reached, the case does not go to the judge or the jury to decide the outcome.SolicitudEscrito presentado a la corte para proporcionar mayor información, hacer un pedido a la corte o pedir autorización para algo.Standard of reviewThe rules or guidelines used by the appellate court to determine if the superior court made a mistake.Statement of appealabilityThe part of the brief that tells the appellate court why the case can be appealed.Statement of factsAny written or oral declaration of facts in a court case.Statement of the caseThe part of a brief that gives the procedural history for the case in the trial court.Statement on appealA summary of the trial court proceedings that includes the facts of the case and how it was decided. It is prepared by the appellant or their attorney. A settled statement may also be called a settled statement.StatutesThe laws passed by the state Legislature or Congress.StipulationA written agreement between the parties.Submit for decisionThe final step when all of the briefing is completed and oral argument, if requested, has been heard, and the case is ready for decision. The next step is the appellate court issuing an opinion.Summary judgmentA court decision based on statements and evidence presented without a trial. It is requested in a motion when there is no dispute about the facts of the case.Superior courtThe trial court.
The Superior Court of California - County of Ventura - FAQs
period is counted from the date the court acquires jurisdiction by service of the Petition. The termination of status does not happen 
 automatically. A final Judgment of Dissolution must be filed. Status can be âbifurcatedâ from all other matters and a âstatus onlyâ 
 judgment can be entered after the six month waiting period has expired however certain conditions apply against the bifurcating party.

REQUEST FOR ORDER or RFO is a legal âpleadingâ (document) filed by a party setting a hearing 
 date for the other party to appear and show cause as to why the court should not issue the orders requested. The party filing the 
 RFO is called the MOVING PARTY. An RFO is different from a TRIAL in that only certain, specific 
 issues are addressed and these issues may be decided on the documents filed. A TRIAL is the final resolution of all 
 issues remaining in the case and is usually decided by evidence presented in open court.

MANDATORY SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE or MSC is a conference set by the court before a Trial is set. The 
 parties must appear and try to settle their case by agreement.

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Expungement

Q:  What is an Expungement?
A:  It is the court ordering that a conviction be set aside, a plea of not guilty entered, and the Complaint be dismissed.
Petition for Dismissal (CR-180) and Order for Dismissal (CR-181) are located on the California Courts website 
 at: http://www.courts.ca.gov/forms.htm?filter=CR
The forms that you submit will be reviewed for completeness. The forms must be filled out completely or they will be returned to you. If you need help filling 
 out the form(s), please contact the Self-Help Legal Access Center, located in Room 106 in the Hall of Justice at 800 South Victoria Avenue, Ventura.

Q:  Who is Eligible for an Expungement?
A:  Anyone convicted of a felony, misdemeanor, or infraction charge as long as they have fulfilled the following criteria:
Felony Cases Pursuant to §1203.41: