Hon. Mary Ann MurphyJudgeSuperior CourtLos Angeles
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| Comment # | Occupation | Rating | Comments | Date & Time | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 135229 | Other | View Details | Frighteningly rude and abrasive for no reason. Disrespectful and condescending. Stay away. | 02/23/2026 01:15 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 131605 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | Racial prejudice, bias, unprofessional. | 03/25/2025 10:14 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 131427 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | She is incompetent. I went in front of her on a default judgment package. I had calculated interest at 10% simple. She began yelling at me in a humiliating way that I was committing fraud on the defendants by inflating the interes...Read More | 03/12/2025 01:36 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 127243 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Worst judge ever. Hands down. She isn’t that smart and gets easily thrown off track. So, she yells at people, interrupts people, and ignores people. Her first inclination is to berate others for her own shortcomings. She is n...Read More | 06/11/2024 09:26 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 120105 | Other | No Rating | I've been on 5 trials as a juror and have never seen such a mean judge - she verbally berated jurors who were late by a few minutes and made them sit separately; yelled at both attorneys several times in front of jurors, snapped a...Read More | 08/21/2023 07:06 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 117362 | Litigant | No Rating | Judge Mary Ann Murphy is mercurial, brazen, vindictive, and cruel. If you draw her, exercise your 170.6 immediately. You will never have a fair trial in front of her. I've never been treated with such disrespect and hostility by a...Read More | 04/14/2023 03:22 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 77819 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Judge Murphy works hard and tries to get the law right, but her mercurial temperament gets in the way. She can turn from a judicious calm to engaging in a humiliating rant on a dime. She wears her insecurities on her sleeve. I...Read More | 10/19/2019 09:30 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 76637 | Other | No Rating | I was a prospective juror in Judge Murphy's courtroom on a civil trial. The defense apparently was based on denying that one could suffer from PTSD unless they were in the military. We were not given an intake form of any kind, ...Read More | 09/24/2019 07:19 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 67521 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Appears to mask her own insecurities or incompetence with rudeness to counsel and jurors. | 04/03/2019 04:49 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 64359 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Judge Murphy has a very poor judicial temperament. She is caustic, rude and speaks over the attorneys. She also appears to have a very short memory and does not recall the rulings that she has made. Overall, one of the most arbitr...Read More | 01/26/2019 06:46 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 64216 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | 30 years of practice I've never experienced a worse judge. She was a bag man for the defense. I had heard stories from plaintiff and defense lawyers who warned about how lop sided a judge she was. ive never referred to a judge a a...Read More | 01/23/2019 04:24 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 48729 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | This is one of the worst judges in Los Angeles County. I refuse to have my case before her. Here are some examples, all from the one business litigation case that I had before her: 1) an unopposed ex parte motion (done more out ...Read More | 04/09/2017 04:55 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 46708 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Not the brightest judge, she goes by the book because she is of limited intelligence. Lacks imagination. Gets "angry" and has made some stupid rulings. There are so few good judges, and she is not one of those. | 12/12/2016 04:15 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 44714 | Other | No Rating | She is absolutely the meanest person I have ever dealt with. She needs to be retired. If I see her name on any ballot for any position I won't vote for her, no way. | 08/11/2016 06:31 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 42031 | Other | No Rating | This Judge handle my case And I felt that justice was served this Judge is tough and very fair.... | 04/15/2016 04:57 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 41464 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Judge Murphy is tough and does follow the letter of the law. My case was assigned to her after the court of appeals over-ruled the work of a terrible Judge that disregarded the law and made rules as she went along. Filing an appea...Read More | 03/16/2016 07:40 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 38691 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Never have a been before a judge more caught up in procedural minutia than this judge. She required the parties in our case to re-file a summary judgment motion and opposition papers three times claiming that each time, the filing...Read More | 11/04/2015 04:38 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 32276 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | She is incredibly defense oriented, and has made some really one-sided decisions. Once she ruled that my client's claim for fraudulent inducement to contract was barred by the Parol Evidence Rule. In another case, where I had a ...Read More | 01/08/2015 09:21 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 28984 | Civil Litigation - Govt. | No Rating | Honorable Judgment This is an Inventor of Technology Michael Avaspour on State of California 91367. and I got on 2 cases , then I think son an Internationa Special Super Civil Attorney to accepting to get on my Cases ( Fraud Bu...Read More | 08/25/2014 06:48 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 28983 | Civil Litigation - Govt. | No Rating | Honorable Judgment This is an Inventor of Technology Michael Avaspour on State of California 91367. and I got on 2 cases , then I think son an Internationa Special Super Civil Attorney to accepting to get on my Cases ( Fraud Bu...Read More | 08/25/2014 06:47 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 28981 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Worst judge ever- bounce her as soon as you can- its malpractice if you don't bounce her. She is mean, bigoted and lazy as well. She must have created fake emails to leave the "ten star" ratings on this site. | 08/25/2014 05:55 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 28689 | Litigant | No Rating | Judge Murphy is a tough cookie. She deals justice with a firm hand and takes no excuses for lazy attorneys that don't come to court prepared. With all the budget cuts are courts have suffered this Judge works overtime. I can't ...Read More | 08/09/2014 12:24 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 28517 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | This is an AWFUL judge! Judge Murphy is habitually rude, arrogant and disrespectful to counsel and litigants. She has a mean streak one-half mile wide. Coming out of her courtroom, you wonder why they don't put judges like her thr...Read More | 08/01/2014 01:16 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 26847 | Other | No Rating | Honorable Judgment Mary Ann Murphy and Honorable Judgment William . this is on Fraud agreement and on Mr, Bobby Pouya as a Attorney on that Case # BC372745 IN a LA Court and he did to Fraud on my Money on Money $ 42,000.00 and his...Read More | 05/07/2014 11:41 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 26842 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Highly biased. She gives one side legal aid, legal suggestions and legal counsel. If you are on the other side you will be the one getting yelled at and are losing more than you can ever imagine. She's absurd. Go watch and you'll ...Read More | 05/07/2014 06:13 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 26841 | Other | No Rating | Horrendous Judge. This is the only Judge I have ever seen in a courtroom suggest the grounds for the Plaintiffs objections while at the same time did not offer the same legal aid to the Defense. Highly improper behavior for a Ju...Read More | 05/07/2014 06:09 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 26683 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Very evenhanded. Can have a temper and be difficult to deal with, but generally acts and rules fairly. Law and motion in front of her takes forever as she controls the proceedings and cuts off lawyers. But she lets you try your...Read More | 04/29/2014 04:16 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 26589 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Miss Murphy turned a 7 hour injunction hearing into a 5 day capital trial. After the Plaintiff's put on 3 full days of nonsense time her patience was so thins she only allowed 2 witnesses to appear for the Defense. She used an ar...Read More | 04/21/2014 12:15 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 26571 | Other | No Rating | After experience "justice" at the hands of "Judge" Murphy, I believe she does great disservice to the courts of Los Angeles. Having 148 peremptory challenges between 2001 and 2003, and hearing from others in the law community conf...Read More | 04/18/2014 06:25 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 25332 | Other | View Details | She is a great judge. All of the negative comments here appear to be from a single source. She is as good as it gets, and is well-liked at USC. | 02/22/2014 02:07 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 23993 | Other | No Rating | She is just plain mean-spirited, abrasive and rude. I have never seen a more biased or inconsiderate judge in all the years that I have been working in the courts. She's a disgrace to the courts. It was the most stressful trial I ...Read More | 10/31/2013 05:36 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 23666 | Litigant | No Rating | She appears to go into the courtroom with a predisposed attitude towards the litigants and their representatives. She is a terrible judge that does a disservice to the court. | 10/11/2013 01:20 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 20952 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | An unpleasant judge to all. Rants at counsel with clients present. Smart enough. Fair enough. But entirely lacking in judicial temperament. Trial in her courtroom is an ordeal. | 04/08/2013 06:43 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 19725 | Court Staff | No Rating | Im not a lawyer, so I can't comment whether her rulings were correct or not, but as a fellow human being ---- she is NASTY rude and pompous! "what is it now?" "what's your problem now?" are the responses I got when I asked for cl...Read More | 01/24/2013 07:42 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 17188 | Litigant | No Rating | Fair and honest | 09/05/2012 10:00 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 17122 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Unforgivably rude to an older attorney who was trying to apologize to her for his difficulty in hearing her during a case management conference. I will forever regret that I did not file a complaint with the council on judicial p...Read More | 08/31/2012 12:54 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 14876 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Terrible judge -- as bad as it gets. | 05/08/2012 08:26 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 13858 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Extremely rude. Disrespectful. Horrible temper. Egotistical. Will not let you speak even on a germane issue. Ridicules counsel attempting to embarrass them in front of others. | 03/09/2012 08:15 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 13115 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Very nasty person and not at all intelligent. Some judges remind you why you like the practice of law, other judges, like this judge, make law practice seem like a depressing waste of time. It would be nice to see judges like th...Read More | 01/31/2012 02:32 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 13012 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | This judge is smart, prepared and even handed. She will do the work necessary to rule on complex matter. | 01/22/2012 05:19 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 11824 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Rude, overweening, unjudicial in temperament. Does not research the issues, flip-flops on oral argument and sometimes is so unprepared she conducts research right in front of the lawyers when the matter is called. Seems to care mo...Read More | 09/12/2011 04:31 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 10728 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | This judge's style includes ridiculing and berating counsel, often without any justification. She refuses to reconsider a position, even if all parties agree she is wrong. She finds fictional paperwork errors in order to avoid r...Read More | 05/12/2011 06:02 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 6795 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | I conducted two bench trials with her. This goes back at least ten years. They were easier than normal to schedule on fast-track. You see, most lawyers 170 challenged before waking up for court in the morning. Her awful dispositio...Read More | 03/12/2010 05:23 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 6755 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | This judge is needlessly abrasive, firing rapid shot questions at counsel, interrupting with another question before counsel can answer the prior question. Ultimately seems to know what she is doing, however. | 03/03/2010 07:44 PM | Contact reviewer |
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