# Online Sources — Canonical URLs for California Civil Practice

This is the AI-agent-friendly catalog of authoritative URLs for
fetching current California law, court rules, and case opinions.

**Per the plugin's safety policy**: WebFetch is the only approved
fetch mechanism. No curl, wget, Python requests, or other
network calls. All sources below are public-facing HTML or PDF
pages that WebFetch can read.

## California court rules

### California Rules of Court (CRC)

- **Judicial Council rules page**:
  https://www.courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/
- **Direct title browse**:
  https://www.courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index.cfm?title=three
  (Title 3 = civil rules; Title 2 = trial court rules)
- **PDF download** (full CRC):
  https://www.courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index.cfm

The Judicial Council updates the CRC annually (effective
January 1) and at other times during the year. Always verify
the effective date.

### Individual rule lookup

Pattern for a specific rule:
https://www.courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index.cfm?title=[N]&linkid=rule[X.XXXX]

For example, CRC 3.1308:
https://www.courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index.cfm?title=three&linkid=rule3_1308

## California statutes

### California Legislative Information (leginfo.legislature.ca.gov)

**Primary source** for all California Codes:

- **Browse all codes**:
  https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codesTOCSelected.xhtml
- **Code of Civil Procedure**:
  https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codesTOCSelected.xhtml?tocCode=CCP
- **Evidence Code**:
  https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codesTOCSelected.xhtml?tocCode=EVID
- **Civil Code**:
  https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codesTOCSelected.xhtml?tocCode=CIV
- **Business and Professions Code**:
  https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codesTOCSelected.xhtml?tocCode=BPC
- **Financial Code**:
  https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codesTOCSelected.xhtml?tocCode=FIN
- **Government Code**:
  https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codesTOCSelected.xhtml?tocCode=GOV
- **Commercial Code (UCC as enacted)**:
  https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codesTOCSelected.xhtml?tocCode=COM
- **Welfare & Institutions Code**:
  https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codesTOCSelected.xhtml?tocCode=WIC

**Direct section lookup** pattern:
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=[CODE]&sectionNum=[NUM]

Examples:
- CCP § 437c:
  https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CCP&sectionNum=437c.
- Cal. Evid. Code § 1271:
  https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=EVID&sectionNum=1271.
- Civ. Code § 1717:
  https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CIV&sectionNum=1717.

Note the trailing period in the section number URL parameter —
leginfo requires it for some sections; omit if the page returns
an error and try without the period.

## California case law

### California courts — published opinions

- **California Courts opinions page**:
  https://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions.htm
- **California Supreme Court opinions**:
  https://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions-slip.htm
- **California Courts of Appeal** (searchable by court and date):
  https://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions.htm

California publishes opinions as they are filed. Published
opinions are available immediately; depublished and unpublished
opinions are noted on this page.

### CourtListener (recommended for cite-checking)

- **California courts**:
  https://www.courtlistener.com/?type=o&order_by=score%20desc&court=cal,calctapp,calappdeptsuper
- **California Supreme Court only**:
  https://www.courtlistener.com/?court=cal
- **California Courts of Appeal**:
  https://www.courtlistener.com/?court=calctapp

CourtListener has full-text search of California Supreme Court
and Court of Appeal opinions. The preferred source for
cite-checking in this plugin — free, searchable, and provides
citation metadata.

### Google Scholar

- **California courts**:
  https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=
  (filter by California courts in the sidebar)
- **Direct case search**:
  https://scholar.google.com/

Often the fastest route for full-text search by case name or
holding. Filter by "California" in the left sidebar.

### Caselaw Access Project (Harvard)

- https://case.law/

Useful for older California decisions (pre-1990) where
CourtListener coverage may be lighter. The CAP corpus includes
the bound California Reports.

## Judicial Council forms

California uses Judicial Council forms for many procedural
filings. All forms are available at:

**https://www.courts.ca.gov/forms.htm**

Key form series:

| Series | Subject |
|--------|---------|
| CM- | Civil case management (CM-010 Civil Case Cover Sheet, CM-110 CMC Statement) |
| MC- | Miscellaneous civil (MC-010 Memorandum of Costs, MC-025 Attachment) |
| CIV- | Civil law and motion |
| DISC- | Discovery forms (DISC-001 Form Interrogatories — General, DISC-002 — Employment) |
| UD- | Unlawful detainer |
| FL- | Family law |
| JV- | Juvenile |
| EJ- | Enforcement of judgment (EJ-001 Abstract of Judgment, EJ-130 Writ of Execution) |
| AT- | Attorney |
| POS- | Proof of service |
| SC- | Small claims |

## Superior Court websites — high-volume courts

### Los Angeles Superior Court (LASC)

- **Homepage**: https://www.lacourt.org/
- **Case search**: https://www.lacourt.org/casesummary/ui/index.aspx
- **Local rules**: https://www.lacourt.org/division/civil/CI0078.aspx
- **Tentative rulings**: https://www.lacourt.org/tentativeRulingNet/
- **eFiling**: https://efiling.lacourt.org/

### San Francisco Superior Court (SFSC)

- **Homepage**: https://www.sfsuperiorcourt.org/
- **Civil division**: https://www.sfsuperiorcourt.org/divisions/civil
- **Local rules**: https://www.sfsuperiorcourt.org/divisions/civil/local-rules
- **Online scheduling**: https://www.sfsuperiorcourt.org/online-services

### Orange County Superior Court (OCSC)

- **Homepage**: https://www.occourts.org/
- **Civil division**: https://www.occourts.org/civil-and-criminal-business/civil/
- **Local rules**: https://www.occourts.org/general-public/local-rules/
- **eFiling**: https://www.occourts.org/general-public/efiling/

### San Diego Superior Court

- **Homepage**: https://www.sdcourt.ca.gov/
- **Civil division**: https://www.sdcourt.ca.gov/sdcourt/civil2
- **eFiling**: https://sdcourt.ca.gov/sdcourt/civil2/civileft

### Santa Clara Superior Court

- **Homepage**: https://www.scscourt.org/
- **Civil**: https://www.scscourt.org/court_divisions/civil/

### Alameda County Superior Court

- **Homepage**: https://www.alameda.courts.ca.gov/

### Sacramento Superior Court

- **Homepage**: https://www.saccourt.ca.gov/

### Riverside Superior Court

- **Homepage**: https://www.riverside.courts.ca.gov/

## Federal law

### U.S. Code

- **Browse**: https://uscode.house.gov/
- **XML (USLM)** for programmatic access:
  https://uscode.house.gov/download/download.shtml

### Code of Federal Regulations

- **eCFR (current)**: https://www.ecfr.gov/
- **eCFR API for versioned access**: https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/

Most-relevant titles for consumer-debt and civil practice:
- 12 C.F.R. (banking regulations; Reg F at part 1006)
- 15 U.S.C. § 1692 (FDCPA), § 1601 (TILA), § 1681 (FCRA)

### Federal court opinions

- **CourtListener** (9th Circuit and Central/Southern/Northern/
  Eastern Districts of California):
  https://www.courtlistener.com/?court=ca9,cacd,casd,cand,caed
- **PACER**: https://pacer.uscourts.gov/

PACER access requires registration and per-page fees; prefer
CourtListener for public-record opinions.

## California eFiling

### Tyler Technologies / File and ServeXpress

California courts use various eFiling platforms. LASC and many
others use Tyler Technologies' File & Serve Express:
https://www.fileandservexpress.com/

Enrollment and court-specific instructions are on each court's
website.

## California Style Manual

- **CSM (4th ed., 2000)**:
  https://www.courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index.cfm?title=ten
  (Appendix B to the California Rules of Court)

## Bar and legal-aid resources

### State Bar of California

- **Homepage**: https://www.calbar.ca.gov/
- **Attorney search**: https://apps.calbar.ca.gov/attorney/Licensee/Detail/
- **Lawyer referral**: (800) 843-9053

### California Courts Self-Help Center

- **Statewide self-help**: https://www.courts.ca.gov/selfhelp.htm
- **LASC self-help centers**: https://www.lacourt.org/division/selfhelp/

### Legal Aid organizations

- **California Legal Services**: https://lsnc.net/
- **Bay Area Legal Aid**: https://baylegal.org/
- **Inner City Law Center (Los Angeles)**: https://innercitylaw.org/
- **Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA)**:
  https://lafla.org/

## Programmatic-access summary

For agent fetch:

| Need | URL pattern | Format |
|------|-------------|--------|
| CRC text | courts.ca.gov/cms/rules | HTML/PDF |
| CCP text | leginfo.legislature.ca.gov | HTML |
| CEC text | leginfo.legislature.ca.gov | HTML |
| Case opinion | courtlistener.com | HTML |
| Federal statute | uscode.house.gov | HTML/XML |
| Federal regulation | ecfr.gov | HTML/XML |
| Local rules | [court].ca.gov/local-rules | PDF |
| JC forms | courts.ca.gov/forms | PDF |

See `legal-data-apis.md` for the structured APIs available for
bulk extraction and change detection.

## Safety policy reminder

- WebFetch only — no curl, wget, requests, or other network
  call mechanisms
- Quote verbatim from authoritative sources; do not paraphrase
- When the source has changed (effective-date update, rule
  renumbering, statute amendment), flag the change explicitly
- Never fabricate a URL — every fetch must point to a real,
  reachable resource