On May 15, 2025, the Eighth Judicial District Court issued Administrative Order (AO) 25-04 reassigning cases as follows, effective May 19, 2025:

  • All criminal cases currently assigned to Department 24 will be assigned to Department 9;
  • Department 9 will replace Department 24 in LVJC Track 11 of the Criminal Case Flow Model;
  • 300 general civil cases aged 24 months or less currently assigned to Department 9 shall be randomly selected and reassigned to Department 24;
  • 100 general civil cases aged 24 months or less currently assigned to Department 15 shall be randomly selected and reassigned to Department 24;
  • All civil medical malpractice cases currently assigned to Department 9, except for Lopez v. Sunrise, shall be randomly assigned to other departments;
  • All time-computation writs currently assigned to Department 24 shall be reassigned to Department 3; and
  • All prospective time-computation writs shall be assigned to Department 3.

For more information, see the full text of AO 25-04.