Q: What is the Civil Filing Rejection Letter mean?
Received a letter from court. We already paid deposit in the early of June and did not receive any response from court clerk :no estimation of fee, no any response. When I asked court clerk last week, I was told the fee should be paid by e-filing only. The court issue a CIvil Filing Rjection letter. It is more than one month after we submit the designating form to require the transcript and clerk report. I asked the clerk last week and was told only one clerk prepared several hundred cases document and behind lot because of COVD19. I donot think "shelter at home" should impact document preparation! It should help to speed up the document preparation if there was any delay before. It already passed the law required dates and I was informed to wait for another several weeks again today. Does it make sense? How could court clerk work this way? How to solve the issue?
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Your situation is being affected by the corona virus interference with the court's operations. Here's what you can do. Go to the Superior Court's website for the county in which your matter is filed. On the main page, there should be announcements about the effect of the covid-19 virus on court operations. The Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court made an order months ago, putting a hold on all court operations around the state. Then more recently, another Order was issued advising of the limited court operations given the ongoing pandemic.
You can access the California Courts website by copying and pasting this link into your browser https://www.courts.ca.gov/
From that central location, you can access just about every court in the State of California through their website. If you go to the court website in the county where your matter is filed or lodged, the home page should give you the information you need about how and where to file your documents, the procedures for doing so, and expected wait times because the court staff is not working at full capacity.
Good luck.
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Rejection letters usually contain an explanation why it was rejected. If yours does not, you should contact the civil clerk filing desk (not so easy these days, but possible) and find out why your filing was rejected. I must say your post is not very clear about what filing was rejected, nor is it possible to tell if this is an initial filing or subsequent filing, or if this has to do with an appeal. Your post contains language that indicates all of those things. Maybe you need the help of an attorney? Contact one in your local area that handles personal injury.
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