Rule 8.512 - Ordering review(a) Transmittal of recordOn receiving a copy of a petition for review or on request of the Supreme Court, whichever is earlier, the clerk/executive officer of the Court of Appeal must promptly send the record to the Supreme Court. If the petition is denied, the clerk/executive officer of the Supreme Court must promptly return the record to the Court of Appeal if the record was transmitted in paper form.
(Subd (a) amended effective January 1, 2018; previously amended effective January 1, 2016.)
(b)Determination of petition(1) The court may order review within 60 days after the last petition for review is filed. Before the 60-day period or any extension expires, the court may order one or more extensions to a date not later than 90 days after the last petition is filed.(2) If the court does not rule on the petition within the time allowed by (1), the petition is deemed denied. (Subd (b) amended effective January 1, 2004.)
(c)Review on the court's own motion(1) If no petition for review is filed, the Supreme Court may, on its own motion, order review of a Court of Appeal decision within 30 days after the decision is final in that court. Before the 30-day period or any extension expires, the Supreme Court may order one or more extensions to a date not later than 90 days after the decision is final in the Court of Appeal. If any such period ends on a day on which the office of the clerk/executive officer is closed, the court may order review on its own motion on the next day the office is open.(2) If a petition for review is filed, the Supreme Court may deny the petition but order review on its own motion within the periods prescribed in (b)(1). (Subd (c) amended effective January 1, 2018; adopted as subd (d); previously amended and relettered effective January 1, 2004.)
(d)Order; grant and hold(1) An order granting review must be signed by at least four justices; an order denying review may be signed by the Chief Justice alone.(2) On or after granting review, the court may order action in the matter deferred until the court disposes of another matter or pending further order of the court. (Subd (d) adopted effective January 1, 2004.)
Rule 8.512 amended effective 1/1/2018; adopted as rule 28.2 effective 1/1/2003; previously renumbered as rule 8.512 effective 1/1/2007; previously amended effective 1/1/2004, and1/1/2016.)Advisory Committee Comment
Subdivision (b). The Supreme Court deems the 60-day period within which it may grant review to begin on the filing date of the last petition for review that either (1) is timely in the sense that it is filed within the rule time for such petitions (i.e., 10 days after finality of the Court of Appeal decision) or (2) is treated as timely-although presented for filing after expiration of the rule time-in the sense that it is filed with permission of the Chief Justice on a showing of good cause for relief from default. In each circumstance it is the filing of the petition that triggers the 60-day period.