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.