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Local Rules of Superior Court of California, County of Imperial

upon all other parties in the action, a Notice (d) If the proposed property management of Death of the Plaintiff. Upon receipt of the company is affiliated with the notice, the Court shall suspend future receiver, full disclosure of the consideration of the case for ninety (90) affiliation must be made to the parties calendar days. The case shall be placed on a and the Court. dismissal calendar to be heard ninety (90) days after the notice is filed unless: (e) Any money collected by the receiver and not expended pursuant to the (a) The original case is consolidated with receiver’s duties must be held in the a new wrongful death action; receivership estate until Court approval of the receiver’s final report(b) Good cause is shown upon written and discharge of the receiver, unless noticed motion to extend the time for otherwise ordered by the Court. dismissal; or

(c) Plaintiff’s counsel moves to have the (f) Accountings filed in receivership original action restored to active proceedings shall set forth the status. beginning and ending dates of the [Adopted July 1, 2007, Rule 3.51 renumbered to 3.8.0 accounting period and contain a 01/01/09] summary of income, expenses, and capital outlays on a month-by-month Rule 3.8.1 Receivers basis. Receiver’s fees and administrative expenses, including (a) A proposed order appointing a fees and costs of property managers, receiver shall set forth the powers of accountants, and/or attorneys the receiver and shall designate as previously authorized by the Court precisely as possible the real and shall be included in the summary, but personal property subject to separately stated. The summary shall receivership and specify the rate of be supported by appropriate itemized compensation of the receiver. schedules and evidentiary foundations. (b) Employment of counsel by the receiver requires Court approval. An [Adopted July 1, 2007, Rule 3.52 renumbered to 3.8.1 application for employment of 01/01/09] counsel must set forth the attorney’s Rule 3.8.2 Confidentiality Agreements, hourly rate and a good faith estimate Protective Orders, Sealed Documents of the number of hours the attorney will expend on behalf of the (a) It is the policy of the Court that receivership estate. confidentiality agreements and protective orders are disfavored and(c) Employment of a property manager should be recognized and approved requires Court approval. An by the Court only when there is a application for employment of a genuine trade secret or privilege to be property manager must set forth the protected. Such agreements will not property manager’s rate of be recognized or approved by the compensation and a good faith Court absent a particularized showing estimate of the number of hours the (document by document) that secrecy property manager will expend on is in the public interest, that the behalf of the receivership estate. proponent has a cognizable interest in the material (e.g., the material

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