The Robing Room

Hon. Martha K GoodingJudgeSuperior CourtOrange

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Comment #	Occupation	Rating	Comments	Date & Time	Actions
134172	Civil Litigation - Private	View Details	Terrible judge. Can't believe she was first in her class at UCB. Stubborn, vindictive, arrogant, unprepared, misrepresents facts, doesn't follow the law. Basically, just decides what she thinks is right and drafts an opinion to...Read More	10/12/2025 04:31 PM	Contact reviewer
125074	Criminal Defense Lawyer	No Rating	Too racist, white supramacist judge full of implicit bias against blacks. Zero rating	02/08/2024 05:17 PM	Contact reviewer
102461	Civil Litigation - Private	View Details	This Judge came from Federal practice and still has difficulty interpreting and applying Cal. Civil Code and Procedure. She wants to run her court like a federal district judge. She confused the arguments on my motion, and could ...Read More	01/27/2022 04:37 PM	Contact reviewer
71342	Litigant	No Rating	She mistepped her authority; She caused additional legal time to try to cover herself up; She tried to block standard procedure from occurring and then denied it happened only to change her mind after threat of an appeal which wou...Read More	06/26/2019 02:38 PM	Contact reviewer
63198	Civil Litigation - Private	View Details	When her law clerks are wrong in their tentatives, she will read the papers and come to the reasonable conclusion based on the controlling decisions. She is not inflexible.	12/26/2018 06:08 PM	Contact reviewer
62770	Other	No Rating	Terrible and unfair. She made ruling based on the defendant's lies without any actual evidence. The judgement is ridiculous.	12/16/2018 07:51 PM	Contact reviewer
43657	Civil Litigation - Private	View Details	Very smart yet extremely stubborn and technical. Her courtroom is unlike any other in Orange County. She treats the new demurrer meet and confer requirement unlike any other judge. She spends time writing the tentative rulings and...Read More	06/11/2016 05:06 PM	Contact reviewer