Hon. Barbara Marie ScheperJudgeSuperior CourtLos Angeles
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| Comment # | Occupation | Rating | Comments | Date & Time | Actions |
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| 131606 | Litigant | No Rating | Extraordinarily biased and cruel woman. Tipped the scales so brazenly towards one side that she excluded evidence of embezzlement because, and I quote, "it makes them look bad." She's an outrage. | 03/25/2025 12:42 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 130289 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | This judge is a disaster. She does not look at entire cases. She focuses on just one thing based on her own personal opinion. She is not fit to serve and should be removed from her assigned post. | 01/08/2025 02:26 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 125850 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | I have been in civil litigation for 10 years. I've had bad rulings, good ones, and like all experienced counsel, have won cases I thought would lose, and lost cases I thought would win. That being said, Judge Scheper is by far t...Read More | 03/14/2024 01:31 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 125219 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Judge Scheper is one of the best judges in Los Angeles. She applies the rules rigorously. She never loses her temper (she might sigh if she is losing her patience). She is diligent in getting rulings out. Her analysis is top-notch...Read More | 02/16/2024 06:28 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 119798 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | This judge would not allow expert testimony to take place and granted a summary judgment based solely on the testimony of a notary from 6 years ago regards the signature in question. | 08/03/2023 07:13 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 116210 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | I have had 2 or 3 cases with Judge Scheper over the past 10 years, and have always found her to be very direct, and very fair. She closely follows the rules on motions, and definitely reads counsel's papers. She takes the bench ...Read More | 02/15/2023 03:55 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 79094 | Litigant | No Rating | Poor! | 11/17/2019 07:48 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 76063 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | This is one of the most incompetent judges I've had the displeasure of dealing with. She lacks knowledge of basic rules of law and will make rulings based on her whims as opposed to any sense of fairness or propriety. 170.6 her ...Read More | 09/13/2019 12:32 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 75906 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Quick, efficient, and provided helpful tentative to explain position in advance of decision on petition to confirm arbitral award. Adhered to statutory mandates and ruled fairly. Good judge. | 09/10/2019 12:50 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 69332 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | I wish I would have paid attention to what other lawyers said on this site and 170.6'd Judge Scheper. If you have a case assigned to her, don't make the mistake I did - 170.6 immediately. Judge Scheper is perhaps the worst judge ...Read More | 05/22/2019 02:36 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 67068 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | She reads the papers and is very detailed orientated; and smart but she and her staff lack reasonableness when it comes to issues facing litigants and attorneys. She allows her clerk to run roughshod over the courtroom which is n...Read More | 03/21/2019 06:49 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 65488 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Extremely bad judge. | 02/19/2019 04:00 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 62232 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Judge Scheper handled a breach of contract and tort case for us. She did her research for all motions and ruled fairly and evenly. She read the pleadings and had good questions. Come prepared; she is not pleased with attorney...Read More | 11/30/2018 03:36 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 58706 | Civil Litigation - Govt. | View Details | Will steamroll counsel if her mind is made up on your case. Generally let’s in extraneous evidence despite availability of EC 352. Terrible on deciding “me too” evidence for employment cases because she will liberally construe evi...Read More | 08/14/2018 04:20 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 53544 | Litigant | No Rating | January, 2011, I was the plaintiff in a quiet title case when a joint tenant and I had a 12-month temporary business arrangement which included adding him on title to my real property as a joint tenant. At the end of 12 months or...Read More | 01/14/2018 11:22 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 52569 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Judge Scheper, filling in for another judge whose courtroom was dark, denied an ex parte application to advance a hearing date on motions to compel discovery. They had to be set in February, according to the online reservation sy...Read More | 11/08/2017 04:10 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 51024 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | I have tried one court & one jury trial before Judge Scheper. She sees through delaying tactics & doesn't suffer fools gladly. However, she will give you a fair trial, knows the Evidence Code, and is great with the jury. I didn't...Read More | 08/10/2017 03:58 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 48952 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | I am perplexed by the positive comments on this judge. I've been practicing civil litigation for over 40 years. Judge Scheper is the worst, by far. I am only infer that the positive comments were submitted by a lawyer who preva...Read More | 04/17/2017 05:18 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 48272 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | One of the worst judges I've been in front of in 27 years. Ill-prepared, demeaning, emotional, short-tempered and petty. And that's just her demeanor. As far as managing the case, rather than streamlining the litigation, she ...Read More | 03/15/2017 11:37 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 46530 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Great Judge. She actually reads the motion papers! And she reads the cases too! She can be stern and doesn't like continuance requests. She doesn't always come down in your favor but she always gives you a chance to argue your c...Read More | 11/30/2016 03:52 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 46000 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | In reading the negative reviews about Judge Scheper they all reminded me of my experiences before her as well. It's rare to see a judge so blatantly ignore the law and the record. In my case she denied a demurrer stating, in her ...Read More | 10/25/2016 09:40 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 44857 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | The reviews from attorneys who have stated she is demeaning, defense oriented and intellectually inferior are so spot on that I almost cried when I read them. Scheper does not deserve to wear a robe, much less tell lawyers who are...Read More | 08/19/2016 12:52 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 38629 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | She is a horrible, evil, mean-spirited judge. It would be malpractice not to exercise a preemptory challenge if you're representing the plaintiffs. I'm sure that the positive feedback on her is from defense counsel. No objectiv...Read More | 11/01/2015 09:47 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 38200 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Horrible judge! Very defense oriented and constantly displays her bias in outrageous ways. She is a perfect example of why attorneys leave the practice of law. | 10/13/2015 02:24 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 37666 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | She is the worst judge on the bench, hands down. She is openly hostile, takes great pleasure in demeaning attorneys, and displays an imperious and tyrannical temperament from the bench. She is rude, condescending, and intellectu...Read More | 09/21/2015 10:02 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 37329 | Litigant | No Rating | No litigant always gets what they want, however Judge Scheper is a gem. Starts right on time every time. She is very neutral. I have caught her jumping to incorrect conclusions about matters and she will tend to presume a few thin...Read More | 09/01/2015 11:38 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 37096 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Just awful. | 08/25/2015 01:29 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 35573 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | Brilliant jurist. She reads the papers diligently and has an excellent grip on the law, but she is impatient, and power-driven, and she can be sadistic at times. She has zero tolerance for any deviation from her orders even unin...Read More | 06/19/2015 01:20 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 32721 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Very pleasant and respectful to counsel. She is well prepared for argument on motions. One major gripe, however. She only will schedule/hear one contested motion per day, so her calendar is a nightmare -- e.g., 5 months to hear ...Read More | 02/02/2015 04:16 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 32495 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | One of the worst animals I have ever met. Not fit for public service. There needs to be an active movement to get her off the bench. If she reads this post at all, she is not making any attempt to change her ways. | 01/21/2015 10:17 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 31282 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | One of the worst tempered judges around. As mentioned by colleagues, unpleasant, scolds and demeans parties. A real displeasure to be in front of. And...make sure you file a timely CMC statement, otherwise be prepared with your ch...Read More | 11/26/2014 11:22 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 25405 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | In forty years of litigation I have never seen such a biased, openly hostile judge. She is going to do what she wants to do, with no regard for the law. | 02/26/2014 06:48 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 25404 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | This judge should not be on the bench. Her bias is obvious. She scowls in front of the jurors, and shows her impatience with older attorneys who are not as fast. She yells and scolds the parties and the attorneys that she doesn't ...Read More | 02/26/2014 06:45 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 18379 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Likely the worst judicial temperment ever witnessed, does not read the materials before her, intolerant, dictates from the bench, will not allow argument from either side and refused to allow us to be heard after it was obvious sh...Read More | 11/03/2012 04:31 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 16259 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | One of the worst judges I have seen. She will reach a decision about a case early on, and then she cannot be persuaded by the facts or the law. Very discourteous at times. Use your 170.6 challenge, particularly if you represent...Read More | 07/13/2012 11:56 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 2034 | Other | No Rating | Failed to grasp the alleged complaint regarding fraud and contract interpretation. Her reversal via a published decision by the Second District shows her lack of understanding and application of the law. | 05/18/2008 05:06 PM | Contact reviewer |
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