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Los Angeles County Superior Court — Chatsworth Courthouse, Department F43 (Judge Michael J. O'Gara): Courtroom Information (Rev. 04/26)

High confidence· verified September 29, 2026Judge PreferencesCourtroom Information, Chatsworth Courthouse, Department F43, Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles; served by the court's Courtroom Information application (https://www.lacourt.ca.gov/apps/courtroom-information) at https://www.lacourt.ca.gov/web3/courthouse/api/courthouses/courtroom-information/courthouse/CHA/courtrooms/F43/documents, fetched 2026-09-29.

Summary

Department F43's courtroom information (Chatsworth Courthouse): trial hours (10:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.); check-in from 8:30 a.m.; civility and decorum; court reporters (parties provide their own, with form LACIV237 or LACIV236); filings by represented and self-represented litigants; motions (reserved on the Court Reservation System, heard Monday through Friday at 8:30 a.m., tentative rulings possible after 3:00 p.m. the day before) and the motions that require courtesy copies; demurrers; discovery motions (meet and confer in person or by phone); LACourtConnect appearances (not for trials, prove-ups or settlement conferences); ex parte applications (Monday through Friday at 8:30 a.m., filed by 10:00 a.m. the court day before); trials (final status conferences about ten days before; motions in limine heard on the first day of trial); exhibits; and continuances - with the department's Final Status Conference Order and Song-Beverly Litigation Discovery Order (each dated January 7, 2026) and its motions in limine best practices.

Applies to

California > Second Appellate District > Los Angeles County > Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles > Chatsworth Courthouse > Department F43

Source of truth

DEPARTMENT F43 COURTROOM INFORMATION www.LACOURT.CA.GOV Judge: Michael O'Gara Judicial Assistant: Michael Henderson Courtroom Assistant: Sukhwinder Saund Court Address: 9425 Penfield Avenue, Chatsworth, CA 91311 Telephone Number: (818) 407-2243 Courtroom Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (Lunch Break 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m.) Trial Hours: 10:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. (Lunch Break 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m.) Monday-F

Official source: Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles — Courtroom Information (courtroom information sheets)
Source health: Healthy · checked September 29, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 29, 2026benchpath-ca-t3-los-angeles-2026-09-29

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-29 (California T3 Los Angeles build 2026-09-29) from BenchPath custody ca/t3/ca-los-angeles/dept/CourtroomInformation_CHA_F43.pdf (580237 bytes, sha256 c64a74c7bfe96e13c90fc5e0ed856125a2e196b973546f102eaa1ac21d2dac8b; 13 pages) assembled in page order: the printed pages composed with the shared verbatim composer (v2 reflow, drawn-glyph reading), and pages 4 to 11 (page scans), transcribed by eye from the rendered page images, every page read against the image, with a local machine reading (RapidOCR) as the second reader; checkboxes are set as “☐”, blanks and signature lines as a rule of underscores, a two-column caption left cell then right cell, line and page numbers omitted, and notes in brackets. For each composed run, proof 1 (whitespace-only), proof 2 (same character multiset as the text layer minus chrome) and proof 3 (same characters as the glyphs drawn on the page) all pass. Composed pages 1 to 3, 12 and 13 carry Acrobat ClearScan text; each was read against the machine second reader and checked at the page image. Glyph codes the file maps wrongly are set as printed: U+00AD as “-” (U+002D). 4 places where the file's character codes contradict the print, set as printed after the proofs and checked at the page image: “electronically file by I 0:00 a.m. the day before” set as “electronically file by 10:00 a.m. the day before” (page 2: the print has 10:00); “l. All parties shall meet” set as “1. All parties shall meet” (page 3: the list marker prints 1.); “1. Technical Service Bulletins” set as “i. Technical Service Bulletins” (page 12: the list marker prints i.); “J. Copies of any repair” set as “j. Copies of any repair” (page 12: the list marker prints j.). Attached to Judge Michael J. O'Gara: the sheet names the judicial officer, and the court's Courtroom Information application and Judicial Officer Search both place Judge Michael J. O'Gara in Department F43 of the Chatsworth Courthouse.