Hon. Derek W. HuntJudgeSuperior CourtOrange
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| Comment # | Occupation | Rating | Comments | Date & Time | Actions |
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| 109572 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Some judges are widely respected, and lawyers selfishly hope they will never be elevated, so they stay at the trial level. Others leave you wondering how on earth, he or she is allowed to remain on the bench. This judge, I am sor...Read More | 08/15/2022 02:07 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 108861 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | I understand that he may be impatient and does not coddle the unprepared. However, I think he does try to be fair and is certainly smart. I endorse the comment that he not one for the unprepared. If you are prepared and act wit...Read More | 07/20/2022 02:03 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 106103 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | No Rating | This won't come as a surprise to any of the posters here... Hunt just had his arse handed to him this morning by the Commission on Judicial Performance, for exhibiting judicial bias in four separate cases. He was on the appellat...Read More | 07/05/2022 05:20 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 104082 | Civil Litigation - Private | No Rating | Sorry to say all the negative comments about Judge Hunt are almost certainly well earned by him. We recently tried a short trial to him and his ruling, and reswponse to a motion for new trial, cause genuine concern that he may not...Read More | 04/12/2022 01:27 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 103260 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Judge Hunt is THE worst, bar none. All of the other negative reviews say it all. The other judges hate him too, by the way, so if I somehow forgot to timely file a ding, I would bring a motion to DQ him under CCP 170.1(6)(b). | 03/02/2022 06:47 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 69271 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | The WORST judge I've ever seen. He commented on points not being made in our motion. Once he was pointed to where the points were raised, he simply stated he didn't see that portion. It was clear he didn't even read the papers. Th...Read More | 05/20/2019 01:24 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 61140 | Civil Litigation - Govt. | View Details | One of the rudest and most biased judges I've ever been in front of. I'm surprised he is still around. In one case where my government entity client was sued for breach of contract by a corporation, and attempted to appear withou...Read More | 10/31/2018 12:57 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 57258 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | 170.6 at all costs! One of the worst judges I've ever come across in my over 20 years of experience. Never reads the papers, rarely applies the correct law, and is rude to attorneys. | 06/25/2018 12:00 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 53569 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | He is just a terrible judge and an awful human being. Spiteful, arrogant and borderline senile. Likely a Trump supporter. All of these negative reviews are warranted. Thank you to everyone who left feedback, especially the humorou...Read More | 01/16/2018 05:06 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 53359 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Run, do not walk to 170.6 him. There is a reason his courtroom looks like a ghost town. He is a vile and horrible human and an even worse judge. | 01/03/2018 02:48 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 52979 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | Her court is a dark cloud of depression and a time suck. Everything tells you she would rather be someplace else but has no other place to be, so she slogs along with zero enthusiasm for being a judge. | 12/06/2017 05:54 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 50032 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | I watched this judge berate on attorney for wasting his time over the weekend, interrupt and yell at another attorney for having his hands in his pockets, and then blatantly failed to apply the plain language of a statute to the f...Read More | 06/08/2017 05:45 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 48343 | Civil Litigation - Private | No Rating | Opposing Counsel's wife diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer. He and his wife have a six year old and a six month old. Judge Hunt denied stipulated Ex Parte to continue trial and questioned Counsel on whether he was a daily car...Read More | 03/20/2017 10:58 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 45853 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | While in Judge Hunt's court I have seen attorneys challenge him on a 170.6 even though the officer did not show and the case is being dismissed show for traffic infraction trials. That is how bad this judge is. | 10/15/2016 04:38 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 45280 | Litigant | No Rating | Can we give this guy a zero? He was demoted from Civil Justice Center to Harbor Justice, when he should have been hung by his scrotal sac instead. This judge should be 170.6 every day of the week including Sundays...he is absolute...Read More | 09/10/2016 05:17 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 44669 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Awful Judge. He will always talk about how he spent his weekend reviewing the case and how difficult a judge's weekend is- and he knows nothing about the case. All day I said- no your honor, no your honor...he had no idea we didn'...Read More | 08/08/2016 11:03 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 44640 | Other | No Rating | Hunt I wont even call him a judge is the most bias Prim a Dona you can even meet. Be assured there is no trial since he has already made up his mind and doesn't want to waste his personal time with the basis of the case. He is jus...Read More | 08/06/2016 11:15 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 41922 | Other | No Rating | This judge is an example of how unfair our legal system is! I have believed in the system until I saw him! My daughter received a ticket a highbeam infraction. She was so intimidated by him she did not know that she lost her righ...Read More | 04/07/2016 11:37 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 40655 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Ok, I am probably the only attorney who likes this judge. Most attorneys dislike him because he takes no BS. He starts off the trial asking defense counsel to explain each and every affirmative defense. Not prepared, you lose. ...Read More | 02/03/2016 06:47 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 39979 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | In a criminal trial for excessive speed, Judge Hunt advised me that he did not want to hear my due process agreement in regard to my motion to exclude evidence when the prosecution failed to produce evidence and that the Constitut...Read More | 01/05/2016 02:47 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 39108 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | The worst judge I have been before in my entire career (25 years), having appeared in the courts of over a dozen states. This judge is not just incompetent, but truly seems mentally unstable (rude, flippant, dictatorial in contra...Read More | 11/24/2015 02:43 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 37911 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | It's funny, the comments posted on this site about Judge Hunt are so true. I was trying to explain this judge to others, but lacked the adjectives to begin to describe the horrendous manner in which Judge Hunt handled this case. ...Read More | 10/05/2015 10:42 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 37618 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Has now been assigned to Small ClaimsCourt, and FOR VERY GOOD REASON. He was impossible to tolerate when in Central Justice. Frequently dinged. So small claims litigants beware -- do not put your hands in your pockets when s...Read More | 09/18/2015 09:34 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 36763 | Other | No Rating | Appeal today B4 Judge Peter Wilson-contrast amazing. Judge Wilson patiently allowed each side to present and counter. Judge Hunt didn't allow either side a hearing. Told litigants they could only answer his Q's-which didn't get to...Read More | 08/07/2015 08:18 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 36529 | Other | No Rating | Poor Very Arrogant Continually lectures the citizen jurors and threatens them with legal action and jail time but does not follow his own rules We had four or five lectures on being on time including one where he told us if we ...Read More | 07/28/2015 04:52 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 34901 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | The negative comments below are disturbingly accurate. Hunt hates his job, the attorneys before him and has no respect for the legal process at all. Zero interest in securing a just result. Zero. Worked incredibly hard not t...Read More | 05/21/2015 11:11 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 33940 | Other | No Rating | Every single bad review above and below is spot on (& they're all bad). Hunt can care less about the law, your case, right or wrong. He is a disservice to the judicial system and should retire since he simply doesn't care. He only...Read More | 04/10/2015 01:00 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 33933 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Overbearing-Abusive. Does not allow either party to speak. He asks Q's within a very narrow range Parties have no opportunity to present their case. Does not consider CA written statutes. Interested in getting to lunch on time. Ho...Read More | 04/09/2015 09:11 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 32815 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | Judge Hunt can be unpleasant, will interrupt and berate, and will feel inclined to embarrass both lawyers regularly. But he isn't as bad as some other. Some of his rulings make no sense to me, but if you can look past the person...Read More | 02/06/2015 08:42 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 29574 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | He may be the worst judge I have encountered in decades of practice and five thousand court appearances, and in my matter with him my client was successful on all counts yet I am compelled to warn against him. He is arrogant an...Read More | 09/19/2014 09:21 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 29522 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Judge Hunt is the worst judge I have ever come across. He doesn't understand the law and will not listen to you once he takes a position -- even if it is wrong. He frequently makes mistakes in his rulings, which results in parties...Read More | 09/17/2014 08:13 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 29419 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | Judge Hunt is one of the most self-righteous, arrogant, and egotistical jurists I have had the displeasure of appearing before. Most troubling, however, is that his sense of self-importance, perhaps the result of his Ivy League e...Read More | 09/12/2014 10:40 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 29052 | Civil Litigation - Private | No Rating | Judge Hunt does not apply the law to the facts. He is extremely biased and decides who he wants to prevail. He favors Mormons, disfavors Asians, and generally dislikes plaintiffs. In Machiavellian fashion, he plots and plans the m...Read More | 08/29/2014 11:41 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 27947 | Litigant | No Rating | Ignores or refuses to decide certain issues properly before him. He does not comprehend basic legal issues. A web search of: Derek W. Hunt, Judge. Reversed and remanded (not in quotes) says it all. | 07/06/2014 10:55 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 27188 | Civil Litigation - Private | No Rating | i agree with the majority of others, this man is not a judge... he is condescending and appears to be ''arranged'' by big firms for their grunt work of hurting true justice. Beware he only does his homework if he can use it in h...Read More | 05/27/2014 07:59 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 25489 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | When I was a young lawyer, I had a case in front of him, and there are three things that I remember about Judge Hunt: (1) no hands in pockets (what on earth?); (2) he did not care about lawyers' schedules, and never allowed for co...Read More | 03/05/2014 03:11 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 25427 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | He is a member of the O.C.S.C. Mormon mafia. | 02/27/2014 11:33 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 24554 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Let me be as level-headed, reasonable and understated as I can: He’s a preening, right-wing misogynist. I would not pay this jackass $2 to wash my car. How he ever got appointed to the bench is a puzzle, but the fact that he ...Read More | 12/10/2013 10:37 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 24057 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Judge Hunt is very difficult personally. I tried a two-and-a-half-week jury trial in his courtroom, and it was a very difficult trial. My plaintiff opponent was a flamboyant trial lawyer, with a wealthy client, and they spent almo...Read More | 11/05/2013 02:00 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 23384 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | No Rating | I have read all of the comments and I find them interesting. This guy wanted to be a judge so he could get that paycheck and pension. He probably failed big time at having his own practice. Most judges are all the same: big losers...Read More | 09/20/2013 07:43 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 22935 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | This judge is very biased in favor of any Mormon who appears in his courtroom, and is also very biased in favor of attorneys from big law firms. | 08/20/2013 07:47 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 21936 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Judge Hunt is a cartoon character. He literally screams at attorneys if they have their hand in their pocket when speaking to him. | 06/06/2013 03:26 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 20792 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Just like all the other reviewers have noted, Judge Hunt is an arrogant jerk. If you have two reasonable parties attempting to litigate a case, this is not the courtroom where you want to do it. However, in our latest case bef...Read More | 03/28/2013 01:19 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 20432 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Judge Hunt is a maniac. I also think that he makes it a point to harass attorneys that do not have conventional Caucasian names. He doesn't understand basic legal issues -- you can't just dismiss a case when arbitration has been ...Read More | 03/09/2013 04:59 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 18392 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | One of the most condescending, arrogant and disrespectful judges on the bench. Just an absolute tyrant. I can't stand appearing before judges who demean everyone before them, especially attorneys who have been practicing for man...Read More | 11/04/2012 06:34 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 18043 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | Another sicko on the bench. I would not let him pick my lunch, let alone decide a case. Not qualified for small claims court, let alone Superior Court. | 10/17/2012 12:01 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 17875 | Other | No Rating | I was called for jury duty and he was so rude to me personally in court - he embarrassed me because I could not serve more than 10 days - it was unacceptable and he should be taken off the bench - we should be more respected as ju...Read More | 10/08/2012 10:03 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 16426 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | This must be the worst Judge I have ever seen. No one will submit to him. Why he hasn't been fired only demonstrates you can't get rid of a government employee. A total weird-o on top of everything else. Stay away at all costs. | 07/24/2012 06:49 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 16413 | Civil Litigation - Private | No Rating | Paper him. He is arbitrary in his rulings and refuses to provide a basis for his decisions when asked to do so. The rules of evidence are apparently irrelevant to him. | 07/24/2012 12:13 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 15624 | Other | No Rating | This judge talks down to the jury pool, makes fun of them, yells at them, and then tries to be cute and funny and expects them to laugh at his lame jokes. Judge Hunt, pick a lane...and pick a personality. You can't be good judge...Read More | 06/20/2012 12:54 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 14377 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | These ratings come from multiple contacts with Judge Hunt by firm members. Putting aside his disrespectful attitude and lack of professionalism is the more significant issue-what he dispenses is not justice. It is injustice borne ...Read More | 04/11/2012 05:31 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 13692 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | The most arrogant smart mouth disrespectable Judge I have ever appeared in front of. He screamed at my witness/client because she was VN and did not understand some of the questions, he was such an ass. Paper him it will be the b...Read More | 02/27/2012 01:33 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 12859 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | This judge likes to intimidate attorneys. He must have some kind of neurotic picadillo against people who put their hands in their pockets. If you do that, the entire hearing comes to a screeching halt, so that the judge can spe...Read More | 01/09/2012 02:50 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 12822 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Don't burn your 170.6 if you get another judge for you may end up with Hunt and no way out. His courtroom is like a ghost town because no one wants to be subjected to his pompous, arrogant demeanor. Unfortunately, I didn't do my ...Read More | 01/05/2012 07:23 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 11826 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Pompous, supercilious, arrogant. Thinks he's absolutely brilliant and never tires of letting everyone before him know it. Prefers disposing of cases and issues on technicalities which he thinks he understands rather than substanti...Read More | 09/12/2011 05:34 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 9990 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Appears to be an intelligent judge but I couldn't explain the case to him, even though both myself and opposing counsel agreed about the issues. He'd immediately cut us off. Unnecessarily rude and difficult. He got fixated on ca...Read More | 02/18/2011 02:34 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 9965 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | His courtroom is always available for trial because everybody - Plaintiffs and Defendants - 170.6 him. | 02/14/2011 05:29 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 9254 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Judge Hunt is a tyrant in the coutroom. | 11/04/2010 07:24 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 5268 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Very arrogant and pompous. Definitely defense-oriented in civil matters. I've seen him hammered a few times in appellate opinions for abuse of discretion. | 05/07/2009 01:09 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 4580 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Odd man. Sounds smart but is totally impractical in law and motion. Makes practicing harder than it needs to be. Can't think outside of the box. | 01/28/2009 10:33 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 2789 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | As for criminal cases, the DDA's in West Court papered him so much he was sent back to civil. Maybe this is too bad, because he is a pain in civil. | 09/05/2008 02:59 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 1671 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Pompous -- he likes to hear himself pontificate. Belittles attorneys. Intelligent, but not as smart as he thinks he is. | 02/27/2008 06:04 PM | Contact reviewer |
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