Rule 3.2235.Application

Rule 3.2235 is the gateway rule for Article 2, the set of provisions the Judicial Council adopted specifically for CEQA litigation over the Sacramento arena project. It marks the boundary of that article’s reach: any action or proceeding trying to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul the certification of the project’s environmental impact report, or any of the approvals the project received, falls inside it.

That boundary matters because the rules in this article — covering service of the petition and the list of responsible agencies — exist to implement the Sacramento arena project’s special CEQA treatment procedurally. A case that fits the description in this rule follows Article 2’s specific service timeline in Rule 3.2236 rather than the more general service provisions in Rule 3.2222, while a case that does not fit stays under the general streamlined CEQA rules instead.