When is a California summary judgment reply due?

The actual noticed or continued hearing date

Identify the current hearing and any changed reply schedule. Opposition receipt does not start a fresh eleven-day clock.

Responsible actor. The moving party replying to the opposition. Use ordinary California civil summary judgment or summary adjudication under section 437c. Exclude unlawful detainer and other section 437c(s) possession proceedings, a changed court schedule, and additional actual closures. Establish the actual hearing or trial date independently.

1. The actual noticed or continued hearing date
2. Identify the current hearing and any changed reply schedule. Opposition receipt does not start a fresh eleven-day clock.
3. Exclude the hearing and subtract eleven calendar days. Count intermediate closed days. Apply CCP 12a to a final closed day by moving forward to the next eligible court day. The reply does not receive a hearing-based CCP 1013 service extension.
4. Serve and file the permitted reply. Preserve accepted filing and next-business-day delivery service under CCP 1005(c). Do not use the reply to introduce prohibited new evidence, material facts or a new separate statement.

The hearing or trial day is excluded. Calendar-day periods include intermediate weekends and judicial holidays. CCP 12c(b) counts service-method additions farther backward from the base notice date. CCP 12a supplies the next eligible day for final opposition and reply expiry; that later-date treatment cannot be reused as a service target that reduces the full minimum notice. The personal-service and latest-hearing presets refuse closed base boundaries. Rule 1.11 governs ordinary weekend holiday observance. The retained 2026 and 2027 judicial calendar includes Lincoln Day, March 31, Juneteenth, Native American Day and Thanksgiving Friday, and the December 31, 2027 New Year observance. CCP 135 excludes the identified Admission Day, Columbus Day, Lunar New Year, Diwali and Genocide Remembrance Day agency holidays. Actual additional court closures require separate proof.

For moving papers, CCP 437c(a)(2) adds five, ten or twenty calendar days by the recipient mailing address, and two court days for fax, express mail or other overnight delivery. CCP 1010.6 supplies its separate electronic-service treatment, including two court days where applicable and the next-court-day treatment of noncourt-day service. Establish valid service and the actual event. Section 437c(b)(6) excludes CCP 1005 and 1013 time extensions, preserving CCP 1005(c) delivery of opposition and reply by the next business-day close. Do not import the ordinary sixteen, nine or five court-day motion periods into summary judgment.

Section 437c is the retained edition effective January 1, 2025. These presets cover anchors on or after January 1, 2026 and final dates within the independently retained 2026 and 2027 judicial calendar. They require an actual open-day hearing or trial anchor, unchanged statutory periods and no additional closure. Historical editions, future amendments, court orders, actual outages and additional local requirements need separate review. The software coverage limit does not establish that an actual act is late.

Fictitious example

Use ordinary California civil summary judgment or summary adjudication under section 437c. Exclude unlawful detainer and other section 437c(s) possession proceedings, a changed court schedule, and additional actual closures. Establish the actual hearing or trial date independently. Ordinary eleven-day reply period; no contrary order.

Fictitious facts within the stated coverage. No different court order, additional closure, unsupported service method or possession proceeding is assumed. The result does not prove the required acts or a reserved hearing.

No new reply material

Subdivision (b)(4) bars new evidentiary matter, additional material facts or a separate statement submitted with the reply and not presented in the moving or opposing papers.

Good-cause direction

The court may for good cause order otherwise about the eleven-day period. Retain the actual changed schedule before computing a result.

Service and filing both required

Subdivision (b)(6) preserves section 1005(c) delivery requirements. Filing is not a substitute for service reasonably calculated to deliver by the next business-day close.

Different possession procedure

Subdivision (s) excludes the identified possession proceedings from (a) and (b). Rule 3.1351(b)-(c) supplies the separate hearing and written-opposition procedure.

Method and delivery requirements

For moving papers, CCP 437c(a)(2) adds five, ten or twenty calendar days by the recipient mailing address, and two court days for fax, express mail or other overnight delivery. CCP 1010.6 supplies its separate electronic-service treatment, including two court days where applicable and the next-court-day treatment of noncourt-day service. Establish valid service and the actual event. Section 437c(b)(6) excludes CCP 1005 and 1013 time extensions, preserving CCP 1005(c) delivery of opposition and reply by the next business-day close. Do not import the ordinary sixteen, nine or five court-day motion periods into summary judgment.

Edition and calendar coverage

Section 437c is the retained edition effective January 1, 2025. These presets cover anchors on or after January 1, 2026 and final dates within the independently retained 2026 and 2027 judicial calendar. They require an actual open-day hearing or trial anchor, unchanged statutory periods and no additional closure. Historical editions, future amendments, court orders, actual outages and additional local requirements need separate review. The software coverage limit does not establish that an actual act is late.

• Use ordinary California civil summary judgment or summary adjudication under section 437c. Exclude unlawful detainer and other section 437c(s) possession proceedings, a changed court schedule, and additional actual closures. Establish the actual hearing or trial date independently.
• The calculated component does not prove appearance, service, accepted filing, reservation or a permissible actual hearing.

• The actual noticed or continued hearing date
• Identify the current hearing and any changed reply schedule. Opposition receipt does not start a fresh eleven-day clock.
• Serve and file the permitted reply. Preserve accepted filing and next-business-day delivery service under CCP 1005(c). Do not use the reply to introduce prohibited new evidence, material facts or a new separate statement.
• Subdivision (b)(4) bars new evidentiary matter, additional material facts or a separate statement submitted with the reply and not presented in the moving or opposing papers.
• The court may for good cause order otherwise about the eleven-day period. Retain the actual changed schedule before computing a result.
• Subdivision (b)(6) preserves section 1005(c) delivery requirements. Filing is not a substitute for service reasonably calculated to deliver by the next business-day close.
• Subdivision (s) excludes the identified possession proceedings from (a) and (b). Rule 3.1351(b)-(c) supplies the separate hearing and written-opposition procedure.
• Court electronic filing follows CCP 1010.6 and rules 2.253 and 2.259. Preserve receipt and accepted-filing confirmations, fees or waiver and the actual court requirements. Preparing, uploading or serving a document does not prove accepted filing. Rule 2.259(c) has the stated court-system-failure relief and excludes complaints and other initial pleadings. Paper filing requires actual court receipt and the office procedure. A computed date does not reserve a hearing.