Pretrial Mechanics
Pick the motion you're filing. Get the checklist, the deadline math, and what actually kills it.
Built from 4,600+ procedural failure rulings across 7 CA county tentative ruling corpora. Each console includes a court-day deadline calculator so you don't have to do the math yourself.
Demurrer
LiveFiling deadline calculator + M&C timeline. Five common failure patterns from corpus, led by M&C declaration defects.
CCP §§ 430.40–430.41 · CCP § 1005(b)
Motion for Summary Judgment
ComingSeparate statement requirements, notice period, and the failure patterns specific to MSJ practice in CA state court.
CCP § 437c · CRC 3.1350
Motion to Compel Further
Coming60-day deadline traps, separate statement requirements, and meet-and-confer requirements distinct from demurrer M&C.
CCP §§ 2030.300, 2031.310, 2033.290
Motion to Strike
ComingOften filed with demurrer — different standards, different consequences. Punitives, attorneys' fees, and prayer language traps.
CCP §§ 435–437
Anti-SLAPP Motion
Coming60-day filing window, automatic discovery stay, two-step burden shift. The procedural traps that get anti-SLAPP motions denied before the merits are reached.
CCP § 425.16
Ex Parte Application
ComingNotice requirements, good cause standard, and the short-cut traps that cause courts to deny ex parte relief outright.
CRC 3.1200–3.1207
About the corpus
Failure patterns are drawn from 4,600+ tentative rulings where a CA court noted a procedural deficiency — not a ruling on the merits. Counties: Los Angeles, Orange, Contra Costa, Santa Clara, San Bernardino, San Mateo, Riverside. This is pattern recognition, not statistics. No claims are made about specific judges or grant rates.