Hon. William F. FaheyJudgeSuperior CourtLos Angeles
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| Comment # | Occupation | Rating | Comments | Date & Time | Actions |
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| 134358 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Worst court, remember to file the courtesy paper and make sure they received your paper or you will get sanction. | 11/05/2025 10:55 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 134270 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Worst judge I have ever been before . Biased. Will find any way to get rid of a case, even if there is not a motion on the claim before him. Reversed on appeal and he says, “see I was right”, What? One case I was listening to wai...Read More | 10/25/2025 08:04 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 134249 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Review his courtroom rules before your first appearance. If appearing by Zoom for an 8:30 a.m. appearance, check in by 8:00 a.m. or he may not recognize your appearance. Trial dates will not be continued, this is an absolute rule....Read More | 10/22/2025 11:28 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 134133 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Hard right leaning, pro employer/defense in civil cases. | 10/07/2025 10:42 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 133791 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Unfortunately the comments are correct. The weird thing is that in person when he's conducting a settlement conference in his chambers Judge Fahey is relatively affable. He does his own MSCs on bench trial cases, which is weird. ...Read More | 08/12/2025 04:27 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 129902 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | He is a terrible judge and i wonder if he really studied law. | 12/04/2024 05:21 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 128903 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Lacks the dignity and decorum of his peers. He’s not a pleasant individual. I had clients who could not appear because of health issues. He would not accept the representation without x-rays, medical reports, doctors testimony, et...Read More | 10/01/2024 05:15 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 120507 | Other | No Rating | This judge should be removed or retire. He is a USC alumni and hears cases involving USC to protect his alameda and abandons his responsibility to uphold the law. With all USC judges investors can injure society all they want. | 09/12/2023 01:50 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 119375 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Judge Fahey never passes up an opportunity to make a lawyer's life difficult. He has no appreciation for the practice of law. | 07/11/2023 05:10 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 114438 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Judge William F. Fahey should be impeached because he is biased, prejudice, unfair, unreasonable, irresponsible, and makes decisions based solely on his enormous undeserved ego instead of based on laws, facts, and reason. | 01/05/2023 01:46 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 110118 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | No judge in Los Angeles County has more affidavits of prejudice filed against him. Even though he, therefore, has a smaller workload than the other judges, he is also at the top of the list of most reversed judges. | 09/10/2022 10:47 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 110076 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | The worst judge in Los Angeles County. He is a lousy judge for many reasons, not the least of which is fundamental dishonesty. | 09/08/2022 02:29 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 109573 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | Pre-trial experience with this judge was all positive. Courteous, read the papers, ruling affirmed. | 08/15/2022 02:17 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 106169 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Extremely difficult judge to work with. I would ding immediately if I were to have another case with him. | 07/09/2022 01:03 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 104492 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | I can’t imagine why he didn’t get elected to Congress. | 04/27/2022 11:02 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 104084 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | In my experience, Judge Fahey has lied about me, personally, in multiple court orders. He has made false representations about the contents of his own file, and has used the same as the basis of adjudication. He does not let the l...Read More | 04/12/2022 02:49 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 103343 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Extremely rude and condescending to all counsel. After he forced a settlement, he then berated the parties for not including a 664.6 provision that would have allowed him to retain jurisdiction. No Your Honor, the reason we sett...Read More | 03/09/2022 02:37 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 102786 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Horrible Judge living in the 18th century. He requests filings to be delivered to his courtroom and then claims they are not delivered. Subsequently either does not consider the filings or moves the date of the hearing despite hav...Read More | 02/10/2022 02:39 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 101785 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | This failed Republican congressional candidate has literally become "The Potato Judge" from the Conan O'Brien show. Look it up. | 12/25/2021 07:58 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 101750 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Quite easily one of the most biased judges in LA County. He does not care about the law, the facts, or the evidence when the issue is one on which he has strong personal opinions. He grandstands frequently but also is frequently l...Read More | 12/23/2021 11:10 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 101011 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Heavy-handed while being completely uncivil. Paper him. Now. | 12/01/2021 02:48 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 71035 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Pro gov institutions- she’s awful- horrific- a nightmare- a horrible human being. | 06/23/2019 12:42 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 68528 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | He knows what he wants to do, evidence and the law be damned. | 04/30/2019 05:47 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 67514 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | I have had matters before him in the past and never was moved to comment. This time I heard him be untruthful, and candor is the basis of my practice. Therefore he cannot be trusted and I will never have him as a jurist again. Jud...Read More | 04/03/2019 01:57 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 62408 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | I have never been compelled to write a review before, but I just finished a case with Judge Fahey and hope some people look this up before their 170.6 time expires. He has become an auto-ding for us now, due to his incredibly inf...Read More | 12/05/2018 02:24 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 53347 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | I had a bench trial before him and won for the plaintiff. But, it wasn't a walk in the park. He is a strict constructionist of evidentiary issues and rigorous proponent of procedural issues. He tries to do the right thing by th...Read More | 01/02/2018 07:06 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 52845 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Judge Fahey is impressive, even though I had messed up, he followed the law and did his job. His order was just and it is clear he has years of experience in handling cases and attorneys. | 11/27/2017 01:32 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 51252 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | This judge is SUCH an embarrassment to all the good judges in LA Superior. He is reversed a LOT by the 2nd DCA. He is a "standing" 170.6 in our office. He even denied one of my 170.6 requests and I had to have THAT ruling reverse...Read More | 08/24/2017 01:06 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 47563 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | This judge William F. Fahey is what you'd expect from a Los Angeles area lower court schmuck judge and more. He's a C student prick that cannot get past his own ideology and personal reactions. He has no intellect and seems misera...Read More | 02/03/2017 08:40 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 44716 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | Does not know the law, does not understand complex litigation, is very slow to issue rulings on matters taken under submission. | 08/11/2016 07:01 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 44374 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Judge William Fahey is flawed in many ways. He is lazy, unengaged and highly biased. He reflects everything wrong with the system and judges like him have left me with little faith that matters of law can be resolved fairly. | 07/20/2016 06:10 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 43729 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | He carries himself as an authority figure and is deeply entrenched in the Central District. He will keep you on your toes at all times. You're not going to get anywhere by 'challenging' him in open court, he'll respond by using ...Read More | 06/15/2016 03:17 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 43719 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | This disgusting excuse of a .person called me a liar on the record. I am a great lawyer and honorable person. I was horrified and angered. Totally unreal. He was rude to all participants and refused to consider evidence that was a...Read More | 06/15/2016 12:05 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 42657 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Did not understand basic statutory authority. No desire to understand the law or listen to counsel when trying to educate him. File 170.6 immediately if assigned to Judge Fahey. | 05/11/2016 01:02 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 38925 | Litigant | No Rating | Fahey is arrogant, vindictive & arbitrary. I knew within 5 minutes of our first hearing that he had already decided the outcome of my Complaint. He accepted the bank's allegations without demanding proof. Needs to go back to law ...Read More | 11/16/2015 10:07 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 38683 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | This judge has only one trick in his arsenal: set a short trial date to try to force the parties to settle. Also, his disorganization will wastes hours of your time and your client's money. | 11/04/2015 12:58 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 37737 | Litigant | No Rating | My first appearance before Hon William F. Fahey resulted in his clear prejudice against pro per litigants and he suggested that the old adage that a person representing themselves in court has a fool for a client. If you are assig...Read More | 09/25/2015 06:01 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 37504 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | No Rating | I had a case with him many years ago. I remember him to be both ignorant, lazy and arrogant. I often pass by him in the corridors and I feel disgust. What a horrible human being. Why cant' they just retire and go away. | 09/12/2015 01:56 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 34136 | Litigant | No Rating | Judge Fahey legislates from the bench. Displays a disdain of pro se litigants. Is rude, condescending and makes ruling not based upon statutes andcase law but upon his personal prejudices. He made several prejudicial remarks in C...Read More | 04/19/2015 11:56 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 33455 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Judge Fahey is a bigot, discriminatory, unreasonable, drunk with power, unfair, serves injustice, takes pleasure in mocking attorneys like me - a women in her sixties, who speaks with an accent, who is Jewish and overwaight. I fil...Read More | 03/15/2015 01:31 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 32747 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Judge Fahey is a disgrace to the LA Superior Court. Frankly, I can't fathom why he remains on the bench since he seems to disdain everyone and everything around him. As typical in these situations his staff follows his cue and are...Read More | 02/03/2015 06:29 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 29906 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Extremely bad. Does not know the law. Does not care to know the law. Refuses to acknowledge his own mistakes. Tries to bully attorneys, especially when he knows he is wrong. He is in way over his head and has no business si...Read More | 10/08/2014 11:40 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 27607 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | Judge regards pro se plaintiffs with disdain. He didn't provide adequate time for oral argument. It was obvious by his line of questioning that he had only briefly read the pleadings. He appeared not to be familiar with the Calif...Read More | 06/24/2014 12:58 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 27606 | Litigant | No Rating | I sued the pretender lender in a foreclosure, alleging that the so-called beneficiary could not prove standing to foreclose. I had submitted copies of forged assignments of the DOT to the Court which were ignored. Judge failed to...Read More | 06/24/2014 12:51 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 26575 | Litigant | No Rating | This judge and his courtroom staff all act like they are doing the public a favor by being there doing their job poorly | 04/19/2014 11:01 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 25324 | Litigant | No Rating | He has a poor understanding of First Amendment rights. He tends to ignore statutes and case law in favor of personal opinion. | 02/21/2014 11:27 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 18391 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | I generally feel that judges in Los Angeles need to abandon the idea of trying a case in less than a year after filing in every case. I don't have any trial experience with Judge Fahey, but his pre-trial conduct leaves much to be...Read More | 11/04/2012 06:23 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 18332 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | He is the most biased, terrible tyrant judge I have every seen. Avoid him like a plague. I can't believe he hasn't been taken off the bench because he is so biased to one side. | 10/31/2012 06:09 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 17033 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | This is the worst, most biased, individual I have ever tried a case before in over 30 years of practice. He does not understand the law or care what it says. He does not understand the evidence code. He denied me the right to cros...Read More | 08/27/2012 02:03 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 1778 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | I thought Judge Fahey was very evenhanded, industrious, and detail oriented. He showed no particular bias and seems to care about what he is doing. | 03/16/2008 12:51 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 1666 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Excellent trial judge. Moves cases well. Expects a lot from the lawyers but lets them try their cases. | 02/27/2008 01:51 PM | Contact reviewer |
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