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INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO COMPLETE THE COVER SHEET CM-010 To Plaintiffs and Others Filing First Papers. If you are filing a first paper (for example, a complaint) in a civil case, you must complete and file, along with your first paper, the Civil Case Cover Sheet contained on page 1. This information will be used to compile statistics about the types and numbers of cases filed. You must complete items 1 through 6 on the sheet. In item 1, you must check one box for the case type that best describes the case. lithe case fits both a general and a more specific type of case listed in item 1, check the more specific one. If the case has multiple causes of action, check the box that best indicates the primary cause of action. To assist you in completing the sheet, examples of the cases that belong under each case type in item 1 are provided below. A cover sheet must be filed only with your initial paper. Failure to file a cover sheet with the first paper filed in a civil case may subject a party, its counsel, or both to sanctions under rules 2.30 and 3.220 of the California Rules of Court. To Parties in Rule 3.740 Collections Cases. A "collections case" under rule 3.740 is defined as an action for recovery of money owed in a sum stated to be certain that is not more than $25,000, exclusive of interest and attorney's fees, arising from a transaction in which property, services, or money was acquired on credit. A collections case does not include an action seeking the following: (1) tort damages, (2) punitive damages, (3) recovery of real property, (4) recovery of personal property, or (5) a prejudgment writ of attachment. The identification of a case as a rule 3.740 collections case on this form means that it will be exempt from the general time-for-service requirements and case management rules, unless a defendant files a responsive pleading. A rule 3.740 collections case will be subject to the requirements for service and obtaining a judgment in rule 3.740. To Parties in Complex Cases. In complex cases only, parties must also use the Civil Case Cover Sheet to designate whether the case is complex. If a plaintiff believes the case is complex under rule 3.400 of the California Rules of Court, this must be indicated by completing the appropriate boxes in items 1 and 2. If a plaintiff designates a case as complex, the cover sheet must be served with the complaint on all parties to the action. A defendant may file and serve no later than the time of its first appearance a joinder in the plaintiffs designation. a counter-designation that the case is not complex, or, if the plaintiff has made no designation, a designation that the case is complex. CASE TYPES AND EXAMPLES Contract Auto Tort Provisionally Complex Civil Litigation (Cal. Breach of Contract/Warranty (06) Auto (22)—Personal Injury/Property Rules of Court Rules 3.400-3.403) Breach of Rental/Lease Damage/Wrongful Death Antitrustnrade Regulation (03) Contract (not unlawful detainer Uninsured Motorist (46) (if the Construction Defect (10) case involves an uninsured or wrongful eviction) Claims Involving Mass Tort (40) Contract/Warranty Breach—Seller motorist claim subject to Securities Litigation (28) Plaintiff (not fraud or negligence) arbitration. check this item Environmental/Toxic Tort (30) Negligent Breach of Contract/ instead of Auto) Insurance Coverage Claims Other PI/PD/WD (Personal Injury/ Warranty (arising from provisionally complex Other Breach of Contract/Warranty Property Damage/Wrongful Death) case type listed above) (41) Collections (e.g., money owed, open Tort Enforcement of Judgment book accounts) (09) Asbestos (04) Enforcement of Judgment (20) Collection Case—Seller Plaintiff Asbestos Property Damage Abstract of Judgment (Out of Other Promissory Note/Collections Asbestos Personal Injury/ County) Wrongful Death Case Confession of Judgment (non- Product Liability (not asbestos or Insurance Coverage (not provisionally domestic relations) toxic/environmental) (24) complex) (18) Sister State Judgment Medical Malpractice (45) Auto Subrogation Administrative Agency Award Other Coverage Medical Malpractice— (not unpaid taxes) Other Contract (37) Physicians & Surgeons Petition/Certification of Entry of Contractual Fraud Other Professional Health Care Judgment on Unpaid Taxes Other Contract Dispute Malpractice Other Enforcement of Judgment Other PI/PD/WD (23) Real Property Case Eminent Domain/Inverse Premises Liability (e.g., slip Miscellaneous Civil Complaint Condemnation (14) and fall) RICO (27) Intentional Bodily Injury/F'D/WD Wrongful Eviction () Other Complaint (not specified Other Real Property (e.g., quiet title) (26) (e.g., assault, vandalism) above) (42) Writ of Possession of Real Property Intentional Infliction of Declaratory Relief Only Mortgage Foreclosure Emotional Distress Injunctive Relief Only (non- Negligent Infliction of Quiet Title harassment) Other Real Property (not eminent Emotional Distress Mechanics Lien domain, landlord/tenant, or Other PI/PD/WD Other Commercial Complaint Non-Pi/PO/WD (Other) Tort foreclosure) Case (non-tort/non-complex) Business Tort/Unfair Business Unlawful Detainer Other Civil Complaint Practice (07) Commercial (31) (non-tort/non-complex) Civil Rights (e.g., discrimination, Residential (32) Miscellaneous Civil Petition Drugs (38) (if the case involves illegal false arrest) (not civil Partnership and Corporate drugs, check this item; otherwise, harassment) (08) Governance (21) report as Commercial or Residential) Defamation (e.g., slander, libel) Other Petition (not specified (13) Judicial Review above) (43) Fraud (16) Asset Forfeiture (05) Civil Harassment Petition Re: Arbitration Award (11) Intellectual Property (19) Workplace Violence Writ of Mandate (02) Professional Negligence (25) Elder/Dependent Adult Legal Malpractice Writ—Administrative Mandamus Abuse Other Professional Malpractice Writ—Mandamus on Limited Court Election Contest (not medical or legal) Case Matter Petition for Name Change Other Non-PI/PD/WD Tort (35) Writ—Other Limited Court Case Petition for Relief From Late Employment Review Claim Other Judicial Review (39) Wrongful Termination (36) Other Civil Petition Other Employment (15) Review of Health Officer Order Notice of Appeal—Labor Commissioner Appeals CN1-(110 [Rev. 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