Benjamin T Reyes II

Department 16 prefers electronic or digital trial documents and exhibits on an indexed USB thumb drive; paper binders are accepted but are unnecessary when electronic copies are provided.

Department 16 prefers electronic copies of documents loaded on a thumb drive

A party offering an electronic sound or sound-and-video recording must provide the court and opposing parties a transcript and provide opposing parties a duplicate of the recording.

the party must provide to the court and to opposing parties a transcript of the electronic recording and provide opposing parties with a duplicate of the electronic recording

An exhibit must be admitted by the judge before it may be used in the case.

The judge must to allow you to admit the exhibit as evidence in order for you to use it in your case.

Department 16 requires parties to meet and confer about audio or visual presentations, test them before jury use, submit objections two court days before trial, and arrange advance courtroom testing with the clerk.

All audio or visual presentations are to be tested before use in front of the jury

Contra Costa civil departments permit parties to appear remotely through Zoom; Zoom is the court's sole remote-appearance platform and CourtCall is not supported.

Zoom is now the Court's sole remote appearance platform. CourtCall is no longer supported.

California courts should permit remote participation in covered civil proceedings, subject to the statute, local rules, and controlling orders.

courts should permit parties to appear remotely at conferences, hearings, and proceedings in civil cases consistent with Code of Civil Procedure section 367.75

Covered civil parties and witnesses may appear remotely, and the court may conduct proceedings in whole or in part using remote technology.

that party or witness may appear remotely and the court may conduct conferences, hearings, and proceedings, in whole or in part, through the use of remote technology

The Department 16 complex-litigation courtroom provides integrated evidence-presentation equipment at no charge; parties may arrange with the clerk to test it during normal business hours before trial.

equipped with integrated, state-of-the-art evidence presentation equipment

Certain general-civil discovery disputes may be assigned to Department 57; all other discovery matters remain in the assigned judge's department on law-and-motion days.

All other discovery matters will be heard in their assigned departments on Law & Motion days

Court proceedings may not be photographed, recorded, or broadcast except as Rule 1.150 permits.

Except as provided in this rule, court proceedings may not be photographed, recorded, or broadcast.

In expedited jury trials, parties may use slides, electronic presentations, projections, exhibit notebooks, and other methods approved at the pretrial conference.

the parties may present summaries and may use photographs, diagrams, slides, electronic presentations, overhead projections, individual notebooks of exhibits for submission to the jurors, or other innovative methods of presentation approved at the pretrial conference

Voluntary expedited jury trial submissions must identify party agreements concerning electronic presentations and other proposed presentation methods.

Any agreements of the parties to use photographs, diagrams, slides, electronic presentations, overhead projections, notebooks of exhibits, or other methods of presenting information to the jury