{"id":234740,"date":"2026-03-24T22:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T22:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/234740\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T22:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T22:02:07","slug":"first-appellate-district-announces-destruction-of-old-court-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/234740\/","title":{"rendered":"First Appellate District Announces Destruction of Old Court Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">SAN FRANCISCO\u2014The Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, has announced its intention to destroy old civil records, case names, and case numbers, pursuant to Rule 10.1028(d) (1) of the California Rules of Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">All civil cases (excluding those with published opinions) are preserved for at least 10 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Records related to <a data-entity-substitution=\"media\" data-entity-type=\"media\" data-entity-uuid=\"9985213c-c9d6-4dc2-9e4e-3e9f0bb4d61d\" href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.courts.ca.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/newsroom\/2026-03\/1DCA_Cases_to_be_destroyed_March_2026.pdf\" title=\"1DCA_Cases_to_be_destroyed_March_2026.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cases on this list<\/a> will be destroyed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Anyone who knows of a reason why any of the records listed should be retained, whether for historical or other purposes, should notify Charles D. Johnson, Clerk\/Executive Officer. The reasons for retention should be in writing and received by the court by April 23, and addressed to:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Charles D. Johnson, Clerk\/Executive Officer<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Court of Appeal, First Appellate District<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0350 McAllister Street<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0San Francisco, CA\u00a0 94102<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Please note that records and case files for actions that result in a published opinion will be retained permanently by the California State Archives, 1020 \u201cO\u201d Street, Sacramento, CA\u00a0 95814. The Reference Desk can be contacted on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sos.ca.gov\/archives\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">their website<\/a>\u00a0or at (916) 653-2246.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO\u2014The Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, has announced its intention to destroy old civil records, case&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-234740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}