California Superior Court · civil law & motion
No court emails you. No clerk calls. TentativeWatch refreshes the calendar every three minutes and puts the ruling, the judge and your contest deadline in your inbox the second it lands.
Pacific court time
13
Counties
3 min
Cadence
4:00
Cutoff
Next contest deadline for a hearing on the next court day falls 4:00 PM.
Computed from CCP §135 — confirm against the court's posting
200
Checks per court day
Every three minutes, 8am to 6pm Pacific, on every matter you track — from five court days out until the hearing has passed.
62h
Friday 6pm → Monday 8am
Courts publish Monday's tentatives inside that window. We run straight through it. Anything that only watches on weekdays is asleep for the postings that matter most.
4:00
Your deadline, per hearing
Under CRC 3.1308(a), notice of intent to appear is due by 4:00pm the court day before. We compute it per hearing and put it at the top of the alert.
The bind
You cannot tell a client the motion went against them because nobody refreshed a PDF. There is no relief from not having checked in time, and no appeal from an argument you never made.
You also cannot spend every afternoon refreshing a PDF. Departments post at different times — some the afternoon before, some the morning of — across every matter on your calendar. It is dull work, easy to defer, and catastrophic exactly once.
How it works
We read the county's own calendar and hand back the caption, department, judge and every hearing on it. You pick the hearing.
You, and cc the paralegal who actually watches the calendar. That is the whole of setup.
From five court days out we check every three minutes — through the weekend — and keep checking after the tentative posts, because departments revise them.
The alert
The deadline first, because that is the only part with a clock on it. Then the court's own words in full, a link to the posting, and the department's stated practice.
The ruling is matched to this case and this hearing date before anything is sent. The one-word outcome is keyword matching, not comprehension — so the full text always travels with it.
Denied — tentative posted in Alvarado v. Sterling
Ruling
Defendant's motion for summary judgment is DENIED. Triable issues of material fact remain as to the third cause of action…
Court
Los Angeles · Dept 56
The court's posting · Full text on your dashboard
Why it is different
A mistyped case number looks exactly like a calendar that has not posted yet. We never collapse them. Every check returns one of four answers, and each one gets its own words on your dashboard.
A ruling was found for this hearing date. You get it in full, with the deadline computed.
That calendar is not published yet. Nothing is wrong. We keep looking.
The calendar is published and your case is not on it — wrong number, wrong department, or the hearing moved. We tell you loudly, because nothing could ever match.
The county site was down or changed shape. Said plainly — it is not a “no ruling” result, and a canary probes every county we cover each six hours so we find out before you do.
Coverage
Civil law and motion in every California superior court we can read a published tentative from — Southern California through the Bay Area and the Central Valley. More as we add them; if yours is missing, it is missing today, and we say so before you pay anything.
Judge attribution is complete in Orange and most of Los Angeles. Where a county publishes no current roster — San Bernardino among them — we name nobody rather than guess. Marin emails family-law tentatives to the parties instead of publishing them, so those cannot be watched at all, and we say so on the form.
Pricing
Less than ten minutes of billable time a month, against a deadline you cannot get relief from. Your first tracked case is free until that hearing resolves — no card, no trial clock.
Anyone watching a case today keeps this rate.
Practice
$30/ month
Unlimited tracked cases and hearings.
Every county we cover, every hearing you track
Email the moment a tentative posts, with the court's own words in full
The contest deadline computed per hearing
Revisions after the first posting, right up to the hearing
A dashboard that never says “awaiting” when something is wrong, plus an 8:30am digest
Email alerts. SMS coming once the number is 10DLC registered.
Add it in under a minute. We will have checked it before you finish reading this page.