What Does the Legalese Abbreviation FAXC Mean, Apparently Exclusively in California?

Though it appears in over two hundred cases, I just learned about it today.

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Funny Abbreviations eXalted by Conspiracy.

[Dr. Ed 2]

FAXed Copy? Or something related to a copy of something having been Faxed? Maybe signatures?

[Dr. Ed 2]

Or Fax Cover Sheet?

That actually makes more sense than anything else, and I can see contract litigation involving a handwritten comment on the cover sheet of a faxed document. Cover sheet being the (once required, now traditional) first sheet of the Fax that says who to and from, usually along with legalese about how it is only supposed to be read by the intended recipient.

[Noscitur a sociis]

It does not, in fact, make any sense that courts would feel the need to abbreviate "fax cover sheet" at all, nor that they would choose FAXC as the abbreviation for it if they did want to.

[nburney]

First Amended Cross-Complaint?

[Rev. O.T. Medal]

Bingo. That's my vote.

[Eugene Volokh]

Exactly.

[pkboucher801]

ChatGPT to the rescue:
“In California legal jargon, ‘FAXC’ likely refers to a ‘First Amended Cross-Complaint.’ It signifies a legal document filed in a civil case, specifically a revised cross-complaint submitted by a party in response to the original cross-complaint.

[David Nieporent]

ChatGPT still gets things wrong. It would not be filed "in response to" the original cross-complaint. It would be filed to replace the original cross-complaint.

[Tom Watson]

first-amended cross complaint (FAXC), second-amended cross complaint (SAXC)

Latourelle v. Glendora Police Department (Cal. Ct. App., Apr. 10, 2018, No. B276607) 2018 WL 1725388, at *1