Rule 3.930.Documents and exhibits

Chapter 3 gathers the rules that apply no matter which track brought the case to a referee, and Rule 3.930 is the first of them. Rather than writing separate document-handling rules for stipulated references under section 638 and court-ordered references under section 639, the rule instead extends an existing standard to both: rule 2.400's requirements for filing and handling documents and exhibits, the same requirements that already govern proceedings held before a judge.

The practical effect is that paperwork in a reference gets treated no differently than paperwork in front of a judge. Both the referee running the proceeding and the parties appearing before it have to comply, so a case does not end up with a looser or less consistent document-handling regime just because a referee, rather than a judge, is presiding.