Hon. Mark A. YoungJudgeSuperior CourtLos Angeles
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| Comment # | Occupation | Rating | Comments | Date & Time | Actions |
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| 133991 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | I can’t speak for the civil side of the house, but on the criminal side, he is very knowledgeable and rules accordingly. Very fair judge. | 09/16/2025 04:28 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 120882 | Civil Litigation - Private | No Rating | Terrible judge. Issues long, detailed opinions but fails to grasp basic legal principles. I had to go up to the Court of Appeal to get him reversed and the Court of Appeal, without saying so, was flummoxed by how bad his ruling...Read More | 10/04/2023 10:07 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 119683 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Judge Young is intelligent and has an excellent temperament for a judicial officer. He is well prepared and drafts excellent rulings. While I might not have agreed with every ruling in the case I had before him, I thought he was f...Read More | 07/27/2023 01:51 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 117671 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | No Rating | Judge A Young is the worst judge I had a experience With. He’s very Bias judge and overlooks Law if for some personal reasons , he dislikes either the council or either parties , whether Defentent or the Plaintiff, he’s definitel...Read More | 04/29/2023 04:56 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 114980 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | One of the worst judges I have ever seen. Writes long, extensive tentatives but doesn't seem to grasp the fundamental legal issues involved. Had a very easy, unambiguous contract provision, which he re-wrote, claiming it was "hi...Read More | 01/24/2023 04:23 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 110320 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Often these comments are "sour grapes," i.e., the party that wins, loves the judge, the party that loses, hates the judge. I try to be more even-handed than that. However, I have to agree with most of the comments below. 170.6 hi...Read More | 09/19/2022 11:16 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 100707 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | If you are assigned to Mark A Young, in the Santa Monica Courthouse, run - don't walk - to file a disqualification (170.6). He is ignorant, stubborn, and refuses to follow the law, if the law doesn't fit with his personal biases. ...Read More | 11/19/2021 02:42 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 69420 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Accurate and faithful application of the law. Knowledgeable. Fair. | 05/24/2019 02:41 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 59013 | Other | No Rating | This judge is blatantly biased. This morning he blatantly disregard all plausible laws, including but not limited to state and federal disability laws, and as a result he ruled in favor of my notorious slumlord. He clearly sided w...Read More | 08/23/2018 08:11 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 58581 | Other | No Rating | Mark Young unjustly took the side an insurance adjuster as landlord over what I, former NASA scientist, and my wife, an attorney had testified. Landlord had turned a one week plumbing job into a 10 week ordeal in addition to cent...Read More | 08/08/2018 11:30 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 54533 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | When counsel is randomly assigned Judge Young for trial, count your legal blessings: you landed in the court of real evenly handed Justice. | 03/06/2018 01:16 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 52344 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | I find Judge Young to be very fair, and excels at scholarship in caselaw. Any complicated case or novel issue is met with well-researched opinions. | 10/25/2017 06:03 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 49796 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | This Judge Mark Young is really one of the worst judges we have seen. Not only is he lazy but he has no regard or respect for the law. ONLY the plaintiff wins in his court be glad if you are the one that filed. You will never win ...Read More | 05/28/2017 03:50 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 49306 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Judge Young clearly prefers the plaintiffs and their attorney. He has no regard or knowledge of basic law and he does NOT care. 170.6 170.6 170.6 is without a doubt any one assigned to dept S the best for all involved. Don't get...Read More | 05/05/2017 03:32 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 48502 | Litigant | No Rating | One of the worse judges in US. Doesn't know what he is doing, not fallows the law, doesn't have any memory or pretends to be so. Will do whatever I want regardless of law, attitude. Got forbid to get him into US Court, they alrea...Read More | 03/27/2017 02:52 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 46825 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Consistently makes rulings that are 100% contrary to law even on the most basic of legal issues. This opinion is shared by other attorneys as well. I am sure that most of his rulings will be reversed on appeal. | 12/20/2016 05:01 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 44361 | Other | No Rating | This Judge allows his personal feelings and opinions to get in his way of ruling fairly. If he doesn't care for your attorney you loose regardless if the Law says you should win. My concern is that he was nominated by Obama for a ...Read More | 07/19/2016 08:41 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 26453 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | This judge sits in Metro 62 (8/2013). He's very easy on the eyes, and his voice is smooth and calming. He's very professional; fair and even-handed. He's a good judge. | 04/10/2014 08:48 PM | Contact reviewer |
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