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Los Angeles County Superior Court — Chatsworth Courthouse, Department F46 (Judge Bernie C. LaForteza): Courtroom Information (09/24/2025)

High confidence· verified September 29, 2026Judge PreferencesCourtroom Information, Chatsworth Courthouse, Department F46, 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/F46/documents, fetched 2026-09-29.

Summary

Department F46's courtroom information and trial guidelines (Chatsworth Courthouse, North Valley): courtroom hours and staff; check-in (8:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.); professionalism, civility and decorum; telephonic and video appearances through LACourtConnect; law and motion (hearings scheduled on the Court Reservation System), filings, demurrers, discovery motions, courtesy copies (for papers filed less than 5 days before the hearing and voluminous exhibits) and notices of related cases; ex parte applications (every day at 8:30 a.m. if time permits, otherwise after the morning calendar); continuances; case management conferences; settlement; tentative rulings; court reporters and electronic recording; language assistance; final status conferences and trials; and jury fees (posted by the initial case management conference) - with the department's Trial Management Order: final status conference orders, and for trial the schedule (generally 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday), the trial conference, jury selection, witnesses, exhibits, foundation, trial conduct and attorney conduct.

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California > Second Appellate District > Los Angeles County > Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles > Chatsworth Courthouse > Department F46

Source of truth

North Valley Dept. F46 Courtroom Information and Trial Guidelines Judge Bernie C. LaForteza The Court is pleased to assist counsel in all efforts to promote efficiency, productivity and progress in all cases pending in Dept. F46. The Court is dedicated to helping the attorneys do the best job they can for their clients as a means of ensuring fair and efficient trials for both sides. Please embrace

Official source: Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles — Courtroom Information (courtroom information sheets)
Source health: Healthy · checked September 29, 2026
Effective date: September 24, 2025
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_F46.pdf (263473 bytes, sha256 2e0dbed3fdbc996084ab5e1002e0aa5303733464a42b53295033dcd5f4701d7e; 11 pages) with the shared verbatim composer (v2 reflow, drawn-glyph reading): page numbers, pleading line numbers and running headers or footers removed as chrome; lines reflowed into the sheet's paragraphs; 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. The two-column pleading caption of the trial orders it reproduces is set left cell, then right cell (the “)” column and the box's rule left out). Attached to Judge Bernie C. LaForteza: the sheet names the judicial officer, and the court's Courtroom Information application and Judicial Officer Search both place Judge Bernie C. LaForteza in Department F46 of the Chatsworth Courthouse.