Hon. Michael L. SternJudgeSuperior CourtLos Angeles
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| Comment # | Occupation | Rating | Comments | Date & Time | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 123125 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Lacks judicial temperament. Bizarre "findings" and language in statement of decision and judgment suggests possible onset of dementia. | 11/02/2023 08:57 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 112012 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | Stern is lazy. He sucks up his paycheck but does not want to do the work. He is motivated by trying to dump cases, regardless of the law or facts. He often ignores binding precedent, and if he does not like you facts he sustain...Read More | 11/22/2022 07:09 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 76274 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Real smart and the best education. He still has a moral compass, will not put up with bad lawyers or waste of his time. Better be prepared and defer to role as a decider of disputed matters. He will earn your respect. | 09/17/2019 06:10 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 59046 | Other | No Rating | I worked with him for several years. He is an abusive , demeaning , horrible person. And as a judge? the taxpayers deserve a competent sane person in his place. He should be removed from the bench. | 08/25/2018 12:50 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 55614 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | I can not even believe a judge like this exists. Utterly biased and prejudiced either against me and my client (two women) or in favor of opposing counsel and his client (two Latino males). I am not being paranoid but I cannot...Read More | 05/02/2018 07:35 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 50646 | Litigant | No Rating | i will soon file in federal court charges of "extrinsic fraud" and "fraud upon the court" on this guy. a complete disgrace to justice, and his courtroom is clearly an abundance of racism. this guy is a minority himself, yet beli...Read More | 07/16/2017 11:33 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 50005 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Should be removed from the bench. Assaultive, rude, arrogant, and fully hates women and minorities and doesn't seem to care who knows it. Treats female attorneys like misbehaving children, even when legally they are correct. Ignor...Read More | 06/07/2017 06:56 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 45688 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | the worst damn judge at the trial level. if you go up against a public entity, this fool will side with the entity all the way. talks about his Stanford law degree 10X a day, but this guy can't even add and lacks mathematical re...Read More | 10/04/2016 12:30 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 44454 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | I am a veteran of over thirty jury trials and truly admire the dedication and skill of this great judge. Armed with a wry wit and the ability to teach with the humorous invective, which can be misinterpreted, Judge Stern not only...Read More | 07/26/2016 05:38 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 44263 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | Awful judge. Don't be surprised if you find out he has not read your motion or opposition. Thinks highly of himself and belittles others. Does not know the law even when you present it on a silver plate. Makes weird rulings. ...Read More | 07/14/2016 01:58 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 37909 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | I have tried four cases before him. Each and every time he is a stickler for the rules, and does not suffer fools. He is not afraid to make a ruling, and he is exceptional when it comes to moving the case. He does not waste tim...Read More | 10/05/2015 07:43 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 33521 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | pro defendant, conversative, pompous a--, dry humor, demeaning to lawyers, especially to women and minorities. | 03/19/2015 02:44 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 32750 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | No Rating | had a trial, eliminated all of my exhibits, did not use a my verdict form, but used the opponents, is funny and likeable, but has this rude woman as his clerk, going against a public entity, a lot of political bullshit in favor o...Read More | 02/03/2015 09:35 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 32566 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Does not listen even when he is clearly wrong on the law. He believes he is always right even when case law is cited that provides that he is wrong. Does not even allow you to be heard. | 01/26/2015 11:22 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 30873 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | He has to be the smartest person in the room and will not follow the law. Despite what the law says, he follows "Stern's law". This is a problem. People need to get out and vote and use more discretion at the polls in which judges...Read More | 11/08/2014 06:10 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 29379 | Other | No Rating | Subtracting completely the ex election fraud presdient of 2000 2004 USA from Judge Michael Stern in department 62 Los Angeles, Ca. closing.doc by 88 Ronald L. Vaught, Superior court September 2014. | 09/10/2014 05:03 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 28485 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | No Rating | Substantial comments are consistent in revealing that this judge "Fails to Follow" the "Courtroom Rules." Such "Consistent Statements" being made significantly raise a question to the violation of "Due Process" from the other sid...Read More | 07/30/2014 11:46 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 28484 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Substantial comments are consistent in revealing that this judge "Fails to Follow" the "Courtroom Rules." Such "Consistent Statements" being made significantly raise a question to the violation of "Due Process" from the other sid...Read More | 07/30/2014 11:45 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 28481 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Substantial comments are consistent in revealing that this judge "Fails to Follow" the "Courtroom Rules." Such "Consistent Statements" being made significantly raise a question to the violation of "Due Process" from the other sid...Read More | 07/30/2014 11:44 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 28479 | Civil Litigation - Govt. | View Details | "Extremely easy to falsify evidence and fabricate statements" while the plaintiffs may present extraordinary evidence. The commissioner will NOT consider the evidence, let alone glance at it, while the respondents will have "No E...Read More | 07/30/2014 11:42 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 25319 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | He is an excellent judge. In all his years on the bench, he has been known as the judge who never enforces the rules if he likes you. Judge Stern is the best -- all bark, and a toothless bite! | 02/21/2014 05:13 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 21078 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Stern has a great sense of humor, but requires counsel to follow the rules. | 04/17/2013 01:39 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 19675 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Really one of the rudest judgest I've come across. Loves talking down to attorney's. I tried a civil case in his courtroom and he loves making attorneys feel stupid, which to his credit he does evenly to both parties. but i got...Read More | 01/21/2013 04:28 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 18394 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Can't stand judges like this. Pompous and won't admit to being wrong. I was working on a case that was removed to federal court from Judge Stern's docket, and he set an OSC re sanctions for failure to show up to a "post removal ...Read More | 11/04/2012 06:59 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 17900 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Judge Stern is the worst. I tried a bench case to him. Plaintiff attorney didn't answer discovery, he refused to award sanctions, saying it was a cost of doing business. Plaintiff attorney missed the FSC, he continued the trial....Read More | 10/09/2012 06:50 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 15473 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Avoid this judge at all costs, if you represent the defense. He provides very vague and ambiguous basis for his rulings. Even if you point out the opposition has NO EVIDENCE to support a proposition, he refuses to change his rul...Read More | 06/15/2012 01:31 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 14759 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | While he is a smart judge he is pedantic to the point that he is totally infelixable. He will not rule on motions in limine if the declaration does not comply in every respect with the rule. He is unfriendly, terse, and unapproa...Read More | 04/30/2012 04:24 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 14599 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Absolutely awful; rude; dismissive; erroneous rulings; misses the point; started to think he was being paid off by the other side. | 04/20/2012 11:07 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 14131 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | I tried a civil personal injury case before Judge Stern. He is difficult, at best. He is a smart guy but made an obviously wrong ruling in my favor which I advised him was wrong. He said that the plaintiff could appeal. | 03/20/2012 05:18 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 11667 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | I had a suit against the city. I don't know what happened, but Stern did not want to touch this case. My thoughts are that politics were more important to him than the actual law. | 08/28/2011 06:30 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 6153 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | I tried a bench trial before this judge. He sat expressionless throughout the trial, stared blankly into space, and did not take a single note. Then, when the decided the case, it was like he was deciding a different case than w...Read More | 09/22/2009 05:29 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 6146 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | One of the best, if not the best, trial judges I have been in front of. While many Judges like to pretend they know the rules of evidence and your case then you do, Judge Stern actually does. In my experience, he is not biased a...Read More | 09/21/2009 03:59 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 4663 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | He tried many cases as a lawyer and conducts a lot of trials in his department too. He's fair and knows the law better than most judges and attorneys out there. He's not afraid to let you know it too. | 02/06/2009 06:38 PM | Contact reviewer |
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