Rule 3.1365.Petitions under the California Environmental Quality Act

CEQA litigation used to share a chapter with the rest of Title 3’s petition rules, tucked in among the miscellaneous motions and petitions of Division 11. As CEQA practice grew more specialized — with its own record-preparation rules, briefing schedules, and procedural quirks — the Judicial Council gave it a home of its own. Rule 3.1365 is what remains at the old address: a short notice that the substantive rules have moved.

Anyone researching CEQA procedure in California courts needs to know to keep going past this rule number. Division 22, beginning at Rule 3.2200, now holds the full set of rules governing petitions for relief brought under the California Environmental Quality Act, including the rule on the format of the administrative record that used to sit at this location before it became Rule 3.2205.

Rule 3.1365’s placement here, right where Chapter 7’s civil petitions begin, still tells a reader something useful: it marks CEQA petitions as a distinct category worth flagging, even though the details now live elsewhere in the rules.