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Los Angeles County Superior Court — Chatsworth Courthouse, Department F47 (Judge Melvin D. Sandvig): Courtroom Information (Rev. 10/12/22)

High confidence· verified September 29, 2026Judge PreferencesCourtroom Information, Chatsworth Courthouse, Department F47, 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/F47/documents, fetched 2026-09-29.

Summary

Department F47's courtroom information (Chatsworth Courthouse): remote appearances (not for settlement conferences, trials or other evidentiary hearings; through LACourtConnect for all other hearings); check-in from 8:30 a.m.; 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.; no courtesy copies); ex parte applications (Monday through Friday at 8:30 a.m., no reservation, filed by 10:00 a.m. the court day before); trials (set on Mondays, final status conferences on Fridays ten calendar days before; motions in limine heard on the first day of trial); continuances; and trial exhibits (in tabbed binders with the exhibit list).

Applies to

California > Second Appellate District > Los Angeles County > Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles > Chatsworth Courthouse > Department F47

Source of truth

DEPARTMENT F47 COURTROOM INFORMATION www.LACOURT.ORG Judge: Melvin D. Sandvig Judicial Assistant: Kailin Keating Courtroom Assistant: Greg Gilbertson Court Address: 9425 Penfield Avenue, Chatsworth, CA 91311 Telephone Number: (818) 407-2247 Courtroom Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (Lunch Break 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m.) REMOTE APPEARANCES: Remote appearances are NOT allowed as to the following proceedin

Official source: Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles — Courtroom Information (courtroom information sheets)
Source health: Healthy · checked September 29, 2026
Effective date: October 12, 2022
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_F47.pdf (203607 bytes, sha256 1ff49fe8615928f4ceb51106e4e9e380ff91e867cdd22bc9336790ddf49a0750; 2 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. Attached to Judge Melvin D. Sandvig: the sheet names the judicial officer, and the court's Courtroom Information application and Judicial Officer Search both place Judge Melvin D. Sandvig in Department F47 of the Chatsworth Courthouse.