Rule 3.511.Papers to be submitted to the Chair of the Judicial Council

The Chair of the Judicial Council tracks complex coordination petitions and proceedings across the state, deciding who gets assigned as coordination motion judge and following each proceeding as it develops. That oversight depends on the Chair's office receiving copies of the key documents as a case moves forward, and subdivision (a) is the list of what has to arrive: the coordination petition, notices of submission, orders assigning a coordination motion or trial judge, notices and responses regarding opposition, motions for a stay order, hearing notices, the order granting or denying coordination, orders of remand or transfer, orders terminating a proceeding or dismissing an included action, and notices of appeal and of an appeal's disposition.

Subdivision (b) assigns responsibility for getting each paper to the Chair. It falls on the party that filed, submitted, and served the paper in the first place, or, for an order, on the party directed to give notice of its entry, rather than on the court itself. That party must also file a notice of submission with the court as part of its proof of service, so the record in the underlying action reflects that the Chair's copy went out.