How soon may a California oral deposition be scheduled?

Effective personal service of the oral-deposition notice

This is an earliest ordinary scheduling component. A final-day holiday adjustment does not establish the witness’s actual attendance or availability.

Responsible actor. The party scheduling the oral deposition. Use effective personal service of the ordinary oral-deposition notice, outside detainer proceedings and consumer or employee records subpoenas, with no court change. Only the disclosed component is supported. Additional actual closures, altered orders and excluded service methods require separate review. A closed minimum-interval boundary is refused; a generic expiry rollover does not establish the first permissible deposition day.

1. Use effective personal service of the ordinary oral-deposition notice, outside detainer proceedings and consumer or employee records subpoenas, with no court change. Only the disclosed component is supported. Additional actual closures, altered orders and excluded service methods require separate review. A closed minimum-interval boundary is refused; a generic expiry rollover does not establish the first permissible deposition day.
2. Exclude the established event day and count 10 calendar days under CCP 12. Intermediate weekends and holidays count. Apply CCP 12a to a final judicial holiday and check actual office closures under CCP 12b.
3. Check the actual judicial holidays, closures and statutory or court-ordered qualifications.
4. Schedule no earlier than the applicable minimum, establish lawful notice and any required subpoena, and complete discovery within its separate cutoff.

CCP 12 excludes the triggering day for ordinary day periods. CCP 12a supplies the final judicial-holiday adjustment, including Saturdays and the CCP 135 holidays. CCP 12b addresses qualifying whole-day office closures. Court-day periods exclude intermediate Saturdays, Sundays and judicial holidays. Calendar-day periods include intermediate closed days. Rule 1.11 supplies Friday observance of a Saturday judicial holiday and Monday observance of a Sunday judicial holiday. The calendar includes Lincoln Day, March 31, Juneteenth, Native American Day and Thanksgiving Friday. It excludes Columbus Day and Good Friday as ordinary full judicial holidays. The observed New Year holiday on December 31, 2027 is confirmed in the county schedule. Actual additional closures require separate evidence.

These base components do not add mail, electronic, fax, express or overnight service time. CCP 1013 and 1010.6 identify eligible additions, service conditions and express exceptions. CCP 1005 supplies its own motion-delivery provisions and excludes CCP 1013 for its identified notices. New-trial and CCP 663a intention-notice filings do not receive the stated mail or electronic additions. Establish the actual service method and governing procedure before applying any addition. A summons-service completion event is not determined by the general document-service addition.

The official sections were reviewed, including the retained 2026 and operative-2027 CCP 473 and 415.20 editions. Publication coverage for day and court-day components begins January 1, 2026, or a later expressly stated section effective date. Year components begin no earlier than January 1, 2021, or the section’s later stated effective date, and assume the current reviewed branch applies. These are software coverage boundaries, not findings that an actual act is late. Displayed final dates are confined to the independently reviewed 2026 and 2027 judicial calendar. Closed backward base boundaries and closed minimum-deposition boundaries receive no computed or paid date because their exact adjustment is not implemented. Earlier editions, emergency measures, tolling, different service methods and actual additional closures require separate review.

Fictitious example

Use effective personal service of the ordinary oral-deposition notice, outside detainer proceedings and consumer or employee records subpoenas, with no court change. Only the disclosed component is supported. Additional actual closures, altered orders and excluded service methods require separate review. A closed minimum-interval boundary is refused; a generic expiry rollover does not establish the first permissible deposition day. The disclosed component, effective personal or specified nonmail service and no changed order.

Fictitious facts within the stated coverage. This is the disclosed component, not a determination of legal accrual, effective service, court action or entitlement. No tolling, different service addition, altered order or additional closure is assumed. Closed unsupported base branches receive no computed date.

Detainer deposition

Subsection (b) requires at least five days after notice service and not later than five days before trial in the stated proceedings.

Records subpoena

Subsection (c) uses at least twenty days after subpoena issuance for the specified consumer or employee records witness.

Court control

Subsection (d) permits shortening, extension or a stay on the identified motion or application for good cause.

Service methods and distinct statutory additions

These base components do not add mail, electronic, fax, express or overnight service time. CCP 1013 and 1010.6 identify eligible additions, service conditions and express exceptions. CCP 1005 supplies its own motion-delivery provisions and excludes CCP 1013 for its identified notices. New-trial and CCP 663a intention-notice filings do not receive the stated mail or electronic additions. Establish the actual service method and governing procedure before applying any addition. A summons-service completion event is not determined by the general document-service addition.

Edition and calendar coverage

The official sections were reviewed, including the retained 2026 and operative-2027 CCP 473 and 415.20 editions. Publication coverage for day and court-day components begins January 1, 2026, or a later expressly stated section effective date. Year components begin no earlier than January 1, 2021, or the section’s later stated effective date, and assume the current reviewed branch applies. These are software coverage boundaries, not findings that an actual act is late. Displayed final dates are confined to the independently reviewed 2026 and 2027 judicial calendar. Closed backward base boundaries and closed minimum-deposition boundaries receive no computed or paid date because their exact adjustment is not implemented. Earlier editions, emergency measures, tolling, different service methods and actual additional closures require separate review.

• Use effective personal service of the ordinary oral-deposition notice, outside detainer proceedings and consumer or employee records subpoenas, with no court change. Only the disclosed component is supported. Additional actual closures, altered orders and excluded service methods require separate review. A closed minimum-interval boundary is refused; a generic expiry rollover does not establish the first permissible deposition day.
• The base calculation does not resolve the excluded comparisons or establish that the responsible actor completed the required act.

• Effective personal service of the oral-deposition notice
• This is an earliest ordinary scheduling component. A final-day holiday adjustment does not establish the witness’s actual attendance or availability.
• Subsection (b) requires at least five days after notice service and not later than five days before trial in the stated proceedings.
• Subsection (c) uses at least twenty days after subpoena issuance for the specified consumer or employee records witness.
• Subsection (d) permits shortening, extension or a stay on the identified motion or application for good cause.
• Schedule no earlier than the applicable minimum, establish lawful notice and any required subpoena, and complete discovery within its separate cutoff.
• Where filing is required, distinguish accepted filing from service. CCP 1010.6(e)(3) gives the stated same-court-day treatment to qualifying electronic court receipt between 12:00 a.m. and 11:59:59 p.m.; noncourt-day receipt is deemed on the next court day. Its confirmation and rejection provisions still matter. Preserve the accepted filing confirmation, effective service evidence and applicable local requirements. Court-office paper availability and case-specific orders require separate review. This does not turn a service-only response, court determination, completed discovery or trial commencement into a filing-only act.