Hon. Katherine A. BacalJudgeSuperior CourtSan Diego
1.5
| Comment # | Occupation | Rating | Comments | Date & Time | Actions |
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| 134618 | Litigant | View Details | After researching, Sheila Homes and others confirmed that San Diego judges are not taking their oath, huh? San Diego is port of entry for trafficking humans and narcotics, it's all exposed. Judge Bacal reads her preassigned script...Read More | 12/01/2025 05:06 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 134609 | Litigant | View Details | People hope Bacal will be criminally charged and prosecuted by USA DOJ for deprivation of civil rights, obstruction of justice and abuse of power | 11/30/2025 04:33 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 129123 | Litigant | No Rating | She should not be a Judge!! Awful, Angry and not fair. Justice was not served and destroyed the livelihoods of many hard working laborers and a business. Could not understand basic accounting. | 10/09/2024 04:01 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 126313 | Litigant | No Rating | She is mean, unfair and unprofessional. She made up her mind before the evidence and said out loud -you better settle because you will not like the outcome.She ignored the law,and made fun of the lawyers. I hope one day she is fo...Read More | 04/16/2024 09:27 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 125860 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | With Judge Bacal you know what you are getting, a fair judge that follows the rules. Even after losing trials before her, I know it was fair. | 03/14/2024 09:49 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 125812 | Litigant | No Rating | I agree with all the reviews on here. Judge Bacal is a disgrace! We had no chance, Judge Bacal had her mind made up on our case before we even started. Of course we were shocked we lost our case and was heavily fined for it. We ha...Read More | 03/11/2024 06:21 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 123128 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Avoid it if you want a fair trial. 170.6. | 11/02/2023 06:07 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 120699 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | This is not a judge you want if you are a Plaintiff looking for a fair day in court. She is obviously biased toward local corporate defendants and refuses to follow the law. Very sad that a Judge is allowed to have such a negative...Read More | 09/21/2023 05:47 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 116660 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | No Rating | I don't want to hear nothing about her being a bad judge I don't want to hear crap out of that what she is is she's pro defended she's for the little guy okay she's not for the person in the suit that walks in there thinking they ...Read More | 03/08/2023 05:53 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 104281 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | No Rating | She’s not as evil as people perceive her to be. Trust me! Although I exploded on her because her clerks messed up my cases, she has not retaliated against me! She could of but has not! She may have her bad days but give her a chan...Read More | 04/20/2022 04:46 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 69203 | Civil Litigation - Govt. | View Details | Disgrace to the bench and doesn’t even attempt to hide her bias. Decisions so contrary to law in favor of big law firms who don’t even need to argue. Did a lot of research on her cases, and it’s a shame that so few people who’s li...Read More | 05/18/2019 12:18 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 60385 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | She failed to read through our motion and the entire file as one would think a judge would do when ruling on a motion. Consequently, she failed to follow the rules we cited. Her clerk was even less respectful of the rules and the...Read More | 10/09/2018 01:12 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 55223 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | This judge does not know the law and makes up the law as she goes along. Assured us that had read our papers when she clearly had not. Insecure in her position as a judge. In fact, she should not be a judge but that's how politic...Read More | 04/18/2018 12:25 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 54911 | Other | No Rating | The judge does not understand the provisions of Proposition 103, passed by the California voters in 1988. Her recent decision in the State Farm case defies logic and is not reasonable. If insurance companies dictate when and whe...Read More | 03/28/2018 01:46 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 54240 | Litigant | No Rating | This judge is a disgrace to the judicial system. She seems to have the propensity to NOT listen to facts and can't see the forest for the trees. Had to deal with her stupidity for almost 8 years. Cost my family over $300k. | 02/18/2018 05:38 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 53401 | Civil Litigation - Private | No Rating | She seems insensitive and cruel. | 01/05/2018 05:57 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 51547 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | Glib. Smug. In competent. Totally uninterested in the facts of the case I was trying in front of her. The only worse judge I have encountered is John S. Meyer, who manages to makes this woman look like Abraham Lincoln. | 09/13/2017 08:54 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 50167 | Litigant | No Rating | Hands down the worst Judge in San Diego. How she is able to have a seat and decide the fate of others is a disgusting shame. | 06/16/2017 06:13 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 47226 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Not accommodating to attorneys and shows no respect for others. She does not deserve to be a judge. | 01/14/2017 12:58 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 42947 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | How did this "person" get on the bench? She makes snap judgments without being informed of law or facts. She has a really bad temperament. I feel sorry for anyone who has to deal with her. Her poor staff . . . they are all going ...Read More | 05/25/2016 07:29 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 40015 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | While her voice intonation can seem annoying (the last word of ever sentence goes higher), she is actually a very pleasant judge, who lets you try your case. I was a plaintiff attorney on a case and while I did not prevail, she s...Read More | 01/06/2016 11:55 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 38436 | Other | No Rating | Judge Bacal does not follow the law and is pro-defense. I was shocked at her ignorance, bias and complete utter lack of knowledge of the law. | 10/22/2015 11:26 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 38338 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Terrible Judge. Would not follow the law with respect to defaults. | 10/19/2015 11:06 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 38169 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Terrible judge. She granted a motion for summary judgement (MSJ) in an employment case where the employer (ER) wrote down that employee (EE) was fired for an illegal reason. In the MSJ, the ER claimed EE was terminated for perform...Read More | 10/12/2015 04:41 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 36000 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | She may be okay on pre-trial matters, but had her for trial and agree with the other negative comments. Very condescending, cold, pro-defense attitude. Weak on the law. Hard on the attorneys. One of the worst trial judges I have h...Read More | 07/06/2015 07:22 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 35998 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | I appeared in front of Judge Bacal for an ex parte. Though my papers were timely placed in the box the day before, apparently they were lost and the judge never saw them. At the hearing, the court trailed so that it could review a...Read More | 07/06/2015 04:43 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 34151 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | She has no business on the bench. It is almost indescribable how truly awful she is . . . incompetent, miserable, moronic and rude. She will find a way to screw up your case. Stay away from this one. She is the reason that there i...Read More | 04/20/2015 07:16 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 33887 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | She is not a good judge. She has below average intelligence. Her demeanor is terrible. She is just rude and mean to everyone. She is not impartial, leaning heavily in favor of defendants. She was a defense attorney for years and ...Read More | 04/07/2015 12:25 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 33240 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | A terrible trial judge. Lazy. Horrible demeanor. Very biased and very pro-defendant. | 03/03/2015 10:32 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 33230 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Terrible. Not very bright, and displays a condescending demeanor toward counsel, parties and witnesses alike. Paper her. | 03/02/2015 08:48 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 33170 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | She is the worst. After 20 years of practice, it is pretty hard to get to the top of my worst ever list but this judge wins the spot by wide margin. Not smart. Very poor rulings (remarkably consistent on this point). Angry. Hostil...Read More | 02/26/2015 01:06 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 32543 | Other | No Rating | She whines and bitches too much. | 01/24/2015 11:09 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 29630 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | She is the worst judge ever. Run far and fast. Paper her every time. She has a horrible disposition. She is just a mean and nasty person which would be fine if she were intelligent and made good rulings, but she is not. She always...Read More | 09/22/2014 07:14 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 25470 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | She is very pro-defendant. I watched her grant demurrers without leave to amend, even where leave is required (original complaint). She has granted summary judgments where there are clear disputes of fact. She still thinks that sh...Read More | 03/03/2014 07:34 PM | Contact reviewer |
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