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Los Angeles County Superior Court — Chatsworth Courthouse, Department F49 (Judge David B. Gelfound): Courtroom Information (Rev. 02/13/24)

High confidence· verified September 29, 2026Judge PreferencesCourtroom Information, Chatsworth Courthouse, Department F49, 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/F49/documents, fetched 2026-09-29.

Summary

Department F49's courtroom information (Chatsworth Courthouse): trial hours (10:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.); check-in from 8:30 a.m.; court reporters (parties provide their own, with form LACIV237 or LACIV236); filings; 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); courtesy copies; discovery motions (meet and confer in person or by phone); remote appearances through LACourtConnect (not for final status conferences, 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 (set on Mondays, final status conferences on Fridays 10 calendar days before); exhibits; and continuances - with the department's Final Status Conference Order: court and jury trials, the requirements for each trial document, exhibits, discovery, jury selection and witnesses.

Applies to

California > Second Appellate District > Los Angeles County > Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles > Chatsworth Courthouse > Department F49

Source of truth

DEPARTMENT F49 COURTROOM INFORMATION www.LACOURT.ORG Judge: David B. Gelfound Judicial Assistant: Daisy Vallin Courtroom Assistant: Patricia Reynoso Court Address: 9425 Penfield Avenue, Chatsworth, CA 91311 Telephone Number: (818) 407-2249 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 4:00 p.m. (Lunch Break 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m.) Monday-Friday

Official source: Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles — Courtroom Information (courtroom information sheets)
Source health: Healthy · checked September 29, 2026
Effective date: February 13, 2024
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_F49.pdf (327078 bytes, sha256 82de989b8198b8e6484c584290ce38441f98c9c040b9d276c85c81de0466046e; 8 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. Running footers or headers printed on only some pages, or at shifting heights, are named for this sheet and left out as page marks. Attached to Judge David B. Gelfound: the sheet names the judicial officer, and the court's Courtroom Information application and Judicial Officer Search both place Judge David B. Gelfound in Department F49 of the Chatsworth Courthouse.