The Robing Room

Hon. Lydia M. VillarrealJudgeSuperior CourtMonterey

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Comment #	Occupation	Rating	Comments	Date & Time	Actions
131410	Civil Litigation - Private	View Details	Cannot control bias. Condescending and not too bright, bad combination.	03/10/2025 10:25 PM	Contact reviewer
79786	Civil Litigation - Private	View Details	If you represent a plaintiff, you cannot do better. If you represent a defendant, you could not do worse.	12/05/2019 03:58 PM	Contact reviewer
48160	Other	No Rating	She has ruled to place a VIOLENT RAPIST in my neighborhood, endangering the lives and well being of me, my children and my neighbors. She has not done her due diligence, placing a VIOLENT SEXUAL PREDATOR into a community where he ...Read More	03/09/2017 04:57 PM	Contact reviewer
34125	Civil Litigation - Private	View Details	As civil litigator, I have no opinion regarding criminal matters. However, I have tried a case before her and she was fair and even-handed and patient. I proposed fairly complicated grounds for recovery and she quickly understood...Read More	04/18/2015 06:03 PM	Contact reviewer
33464	Civil Litigation - Private	View Details	Lacks the intellectual capacity to grasp complex ideas, lacks understanding of civil rules. lazy and really unsuited for complicated civil litigation.	03/16/2015 01:11 PM	Contact reviewer
11556	Criminal Defense Lawyer	View Details	Avoid Judge Villareal as you would a rattle snake	08/08/2011 12:29 PM	Contact reviewer
11554	Other	No Rating	One of the worst judges I have ever encountered. She denied my petition for change of venue from Monterey where I was sued to my own county of Santa Clara. On Aug 5,11, She refused to hear an opposition I had filed to continue cas...Read More	08/08/2011 12:27 PM	Contact reviewer